Dec 28, 2023•12 min•Ep. 440
One year homemaking makeover: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Homemaking and living organized is harder than we thought it'd be, but it's not outside our reach. We just need to be willing to take baby steps and build our skills and capacity gradually. There is no quick fix solution or overnight success when it comes to home management.
Dec 27, 2023•9 min•Ep. 439
Dec 26, 2023•21 min•Ep. 438
Daily free encouragement emails: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/email Find the article on Simply Convivial: https://simplyconvivial.com/2023/the-nerve-to-be-mom/ Moms often lack the nerve to be the leader with their kids, but the truth of the matter is that Mom’s ability to homeschool is dependent not primarily on her own level of knowledge, but on her level of leadership and backbone with her kids. You can outsource teaching as a homeschooler, but you can’t outsource the role of Headmaster. I...
Dec 20, 2023•19 min•Ep. 437
Join homemaking bootcamp: https://simplyconvivial.com/membership Are we ever too old to keep learning and gaining skills at home? Is homemaking something we figure out and move on from? Are we the only ones struggling for years with the homemaking life? No! This encouraging conversation with Mary Shearouse will help you smile and start in your home Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so...
Dec 18, 2023•24 min•Ep. 436
Makeover your home management skills and mindset: https://simplyconvivial.com/membership When we want to be sure we’re spending time in the Word and starting our day with prayer, we very easily slip into idealistic vision-chasing. We imagine our morning devotions should be the very first thing we do in the morning be done before the kids are awake take at least thirty minutes, but maybe sixty include a stack of books be comfy-cozy with warm light, a hot beverage, and earth tone midliners and a g...
Dec 14, 2023•19 min•Ep. 435
Join us for Simplified Organization Community Coaching: https://simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Prioritize Daily and Weekly Goals: Krista shares how she aligns her priorities and obligations on a daily and weekly basis. We need to make a conscious effort to understand and address our most crucial tasks so we can have a sense of accomplishment and productivity. Embrace Small, Meaningful Steps: We need to make the mindset shift from dismissing small tasks to recognizing their significance. Kris...
Dec 11, 2023•15 min•Ep. 434
Dec 09, 2023•13 min•Ep. 433
Join Ready5 by enrolling in Convivial Circle: https://simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm The Ready5 Annual Review will help you recognize where you're at, what your family needs right now, and make a baby-step plan for momentum and progress in 2024.
Nov 29, 2023•21 min•Ep. 432
Nov 27, 2023•19 min•Ep. 431
Nov 21, 2023•16 min•Ep. 430
Nov 14, 2023•19 min•Ep. 428
Nov 09, 2023•14 min•Ep. 427
Nov 08, 2023•14 min•Ep. 426
Get my free Time Budget tutorials: simplyconvivial.com/timebudget Time is our most limited resource, so we need to invest it wisely. Time management is a tricky topic for moms, especially homeschooling moms, but today we have 5 tips to help! My guest today is Wendy Alcime from Plan Prep Pray. Wendy wears many hats - a wife, a homeschooling mom to five amazing kiddos, and a firm believer that we can find peace in the midst of life's chaos. She has learned that when we become good stewards of our ...
Oct 30, 2023•8 min•Ep. 425
Oct 26, 2023•15 min•Ep. 424
Oct 23, 2023•11 min•Ep. 423
Oct 20, 2023•15 min•Ep. 422
What even are routines and why do they rarely stick? Let’s figure that out together! Build personalized routines to keep your house in order: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/sweep-smile
Oct 12, 2023•18 min•Ep. 421
Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time https://amzn.to/3CcRzuy ➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/todo-list/ 🏆 Enroll in Simply Convivial Continuing Education and get practical life management mentorship so you do...
Oct 09, 2023•13 min•Ep. 420
Makeover your routines & your attitude about them: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/sweep-smile Routines are not a once and done kind of thing, like "I have the program, now watch me go!" So if you were expecting your routines to just going to be put in place and make life effortless, but they don't, it's not because you're doing something wrong. Do you need to overcome unrealistic expectations for your home management system? Our 6-week program Sweep & Smile walks you through both setti...
Oct 06, 2023•16 min•Ep. 419
Fighting repetition and routine is futile in homemaking because entropy is real. Our job isn’t to keep things just so, but to keep rolling with real life and managing our resources with intentionality. Sarah Nelson joins us today to chat about her progress over the last several years in seeing the real fruit and necessity of adapting routines to real family life. Sarah has been married and living in California for 21 years. She has two daughters that she home educates with the help of a local Ch...
Oct 02, 2023•19 min•Ep. 418
📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time https://amzn.to/3CcRzuy Choosing 3 most-important tasks each week is a shortcut to getting more of the right things done, but the temptation is to overthink the choice so much that we never get around to actually choosing and moving forward. Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and comm...
Oct 01, 2023•15 min•Ep. 417
Overcome unrealistic expectations for your home AND work on improving the normal state of your home with 6-week Sweep & Smile course: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/sweep-smile Having kids home all day means a lot of messes happen all day, every day. How can we deal with that? We don't want to be hovering hoovers with our kids' work and play. We can make routines that allow them to get involved in a project and still maintain order in the home. EHAP is our family routine strategy for keepi...
Sep 27, 2023•15 min•Ep. 416
Overwhelmed? Let me help with this free workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.com With a million different things to do, it's so easy to get distracted and overwhelmed. But we all know we're not the wives, mothers, homemakers we want to be when we're overwhelmed. There is a way out. When we feel the stress mount, the distractions fly, and the responsibilities come crashing in, we can respond with calm joy instead of panicked overwhelm. Let me explain how in my free workshop How to Answer Overwhelm. Just go ...
Sep 12, 2023•12 min•Ep. 415
Get the free housekeeping routine guide: https://simplyconvivial.com/clean Mystie and Virginia Lee chat about how to train kids to do chores, as well as why it's worth the effort it takes. Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time https://amzn.to/3CcRzuy ➡️ Take the free dai...
Sep 12, 2023•19 min•Ep. 414
Change the story you tell yourself about your life. Make it a true story: https://www.simplyconvivial.info/story I spent so many years trying to get my bearings, get a grip, figure out the routines, and make things run smoothly. I mothered with intensity. I did not keep house with intensity. I meditated on the word convivial and how to get out of my own head so I could build a home and life where we all enjoyed one another. I educated my children to take initiative, to think, to problem-solve fo...
Sep 07, 2023•12 min•Ep. 413
Spend a month practicing and iterating an evening review with us! https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Women are the backbone of society, so we must be free from cultural lies & personal guilt and have the freedom of good habits and self-control so we can build God-honoring families and communities. 📖 Get my latest book: How to Use a Planner Without Wasting Time https://amzn.to/3CcRzuy ➡️ Take the free daily card challenge and practice with me! https://www.simplyconvivial.info/tod...
Sep 06, 2023•13 min•Ep. 412
Improve your homemaking - https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Leann Erickson joins Mystie to chat about how the challenges of homemaking don't let up when all the kids are grown and gone. She shares how she shifted gears to adapt to a new phase of life and ministry. Leann Erickson has been homemaking since 1994. She and David have lived in their townhouse in San Clemente, a coastal Southern California town, for 24 years. They have four adult children who were given a Christian educati...
Aug 24, 2023•20 min•Ep. 411
Get a homemaking makeover: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm Simplified Organization is my signature online course that will walk you through getting your life in order. In the process, we learn that the biggest thing that needs to be ordered is our attitude - and we take concrete steps to do that. Organizing our attitude might be the biggest thing that needs to be organized, but it's certainly not the only thing. While walking through mindset shifts and attitude adjustments, we als...
Aug 17, 2023•19 min•Ep. 410
