The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler

Get help ending overwhelm & stress: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump My quick hack for busy moms will save your sanity when you have so much to juggle. When you're looking for hacks, you usually want a secret you're missing - and I have that for you today. Too often busy moms are go go go and get confused and overwhelmed about what's next. We risk missing life because we were so busy...

Menu planning doesn't need to take a long time. These tips will get you to meal time peace.

More tips here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2019/how-to-grocery-shop/ Improve your grocery shopping skill! These 3 grocery store tips will save you time and money and make grocery shopping simple.

Watch the "Save Time in the Kitchen" Workshop! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/pantry I know it seems overwhelming. I know even just planning dinner sometimes seems overwhelming. But, seriously, who wants to wake up and decide in the pre-coffee fog what to feed the troops for breakfast? It has to be decided ahead of time. Everyone talks about how much planning out dinners saves you from mental ef...

Watch the "Save Time in the Kitchen" Workshop! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/pantry Does menu planning seem impossibly hard? It really can be.  So today let's talk about a simple way to make it easier. We will talk about building your own meal templates that will take the thinking out of menu planning.

Do the Daily Card Challenge: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/daily-card/ What if you made a plan, you picked your real top three priorities for the day, and then you did none of them and you have no excuses. There is no good reason why you didn't do what you ought to do.  Are we just bad planners or are we just hopeless? No. Neither. How do we make progress without giving up and without making th...

Free 5-Day Daily Card Challenge: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/daily-card/ So you've been using the daily card writing down your top three or what you think are your top three, but then other stuff comes up. Was your plan a waste of time? What do you do when your top three is not what you do in the day? So, so often when we get those top three items chosen and we write them down on our daily ca...

Free 5-Day Daily Card Challenge: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/daily-card/ So I have one planner secret that will make all the difference, no matter what planner you use, even if that planner is just a post-it note, there is a secret that applies and makes that planner actually useful in your day-to-day life. You're ready.  You've got to look at your list and you've got to do what it says. I kn...

So often we try buying a new planner, printing a new planner, creating a new planner from scratch in hopes that the planner will keep us on track.  But the reality is that it's actually our time and attention to what's written to filling it out and then looking at it that makes a planner work.  The format of the planner, the colors, the layout, the options are sometimes more of a distraction and a...

Instead of focusing on the hurting or the tiredness, focus on the growing. It is good to want to grow up, and along the way the growing will cause pains, aches, and tiredness. If we look at the growth, we will be encouraged and be able to bear the aches. If we focus exclusively on how we feel, we will be discouraged, sad, and upset. When your heart and mind fight to be cranky, and you struggle to...

Do you think your story is all about you? That might be your biggest problem in living out a good story.  Get hope and help telling a truer, better story: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/story for a free module from my course Organize Your Attitude all about Living in Story.

Your life is truly a fairy tale.

We're all constantly narrating a story about what's going on around us. Inside our head, the ticker tape comments never stop.  Is the story you're seeing and telling yourself accurate? Have you ever stopped to think about the perspective your own narrator has?  Reality doesn't change based on what you think or say, but what you think or say can give you a skewed vision of reality. We should make s...

So, we know that our home is for hospitality, but it seems so hard – it’s extra, and we have no room for extra. We want to know how to be hospitable, but it doesn’t come naturally. The one thing that makes hospitality so difficult is that we are out of practice. It is easy to slip into selfish patterns: doing what needs to be done on our own agendas, taking a break, keeping to ourselves and our ow...

But when we get our picture of what hospitality should look like from the magazine rack or HGTV, we stress out and shut down. The kind of hospitality God wants us to offer, however, is not according to worldly standards. The world’s goal for hospitality is to impress. God’s goal for hospitality is to knit. Through opening our doors and our lives to one another, we grow as a community. When we gath...

https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ Pursue hospitality. It’s a command. It’s a duty. But it doesn’t mean that we all need to be having people over for dinner every week. Well, except for our people – we feed them every day, every week – three times a day, even. That’s hospitality, too. The goal of hospitality means that we see our homes as tools in the formation of people, not as trophies to be kept...

Need to overcome chaos? Check out this article with a free housecleaning guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/clean/ No matter how much we clean and organize, it never stays that way. What gives? What are we doing wrong?  The only thing we’re doing wrong is thinking it would be otherwise. Entropy is real. Disorder happens. That’s exactly why we have a job, a responsibility, as homemakers, to kee...

Don't miss the ABCs of decluttering workshop: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2021/the-abcs-of-doable-decluttering-with-free-workshop-replay/ What is clutter? If you’re going to declutter, you have to be able to answer that question.  It’s harder than it seems, and knowing the difference between clutter and not-clutter might just be the difference between success and failure in your decluttering p...

Declutter Workshop with slide deck download: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2021/the-abcs-of-doable-decluttering-with-free-workshop-replay/ (no email signup required) How long is it going to take you to declutter? Decluttering can be an overwhelming project. It might feel like there’s no end and no hope in sight.  You might be right about that. Declutter in 10 minutes a day and change your perspe...

Perfectionism is the most likely  reason that we procrastinate doing a weekly review. Perfectionism trips us up and tricks us into thinking that we will do more and do better - later, not now. In this episode, we learn how to identify perfectionism and defeat it.

We have a lot of options for planners. From paper planners to online apps, there are myriads of resources available to choose from.  Yet even with all of these resources, we often find ourselves overwhelmed by overplanning, overconfident in our abilities to accomplish what "needs" to get done.  In this exerpt from a members-only mentoring session, Mystie delves into this problem and explores diffe...

However, to use this tool to its fullest extent, a few guidelines must be followed. Among them: don't overplan. Seems simple, right? Yet all too often, we pile too much on our plates, thinking that it would be good to start another project, start another book club, etc etc. All these projects simply degrade the usefulness of your calendar. Rather than being a list and schedule of the things you wi...

If you don't have a weekly review in place, all your time setting up a new planner and calendar for the year is wasted. Plans only work if you look at them and keep them current and correct. A weekly review does exactly that. It's a time to make your planner and your planning systems work for you. Be sure that the time you spend getting organized actually helps you stay organized by sticking with...

Not only is ready the fifth step of preparing for 2021, it is also an acronym that the members of Simplified Organization Community Coaching will be doing as a deep dive. In this video, Mystie briefly discusses the first, familiar element of the acronym as well as the final, surprising component.

It seems patently obvious: of course you have to buy a new planner. I mean, it's a new year, you at least need a new calendar, right? True, but think about what is connected with that calendar: the entire way you plan out you year, months, and days. What worked and, more importantly, what didn't in 2020? What do you need to fix for 2021? Next reset some of your routines. Now, this doesn't mean goi...