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The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. Homemaking and homeschooling can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. If you’re a Christian mom longing for a well-ordered home, a peaceful homeschool, and a joyful heart—without the stress or burnout—you’re in the right place. Moms can be productive and peaceful when grounded in Scriptural truth. I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home…
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- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to be a better homeschool mom
See how your homeschool is doing with the REAL homeschool quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/homeschool I don’t know about you, but I always start off the…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
3 ways to beat perfectionism
3 ways to handle perfectionism and get rid of perfectionist tendencies
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Why can't the dishes wait until the morning? Is procrastination ever good?
SNAP into organization QUIZ: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz I had put dinner on the table. Wasn’t that enough for one day? To get up and then face the…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Hey, slob. You might be a perfectionist.
Are you a perfectionist? Is the reason for your chaos actually perfectionism? Show notes: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/blog/slob-perfectionist/ Those who…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Your weekly dashboard - make a planner work for you!
Find out about our community: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/membership Hear from a number of women about personalizing and customizing a planner to make it…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to Get Started Planning: Planner Organization and Set-Up - 5 Simple Steps
Take the "get organized" quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz How to set up and organize any planner so that it works for you. Planner organization can…
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Functional Planner: How to make any planner work
Work Your Plan: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/stop-overwhelm A functional planner depends more on the user than the page templates and formats. You are the…
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Stop Getting Distracted: Motivation for Moms
Stop getting distracted and find the motivation you need to get momentum, find focus, make progress. Moms need to know how to stop getting distracted, because…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Unclutter your mind so you can think creatively
Download the free guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump We all know the feeling. You can't focus, you can't think straight. You can't get a handle…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How To Be More Productive When You're Feeling Unmotivated
Find my free brain dump guide here: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindump When you're feeling unmotivated, it's hard to get things done. We want to be more…
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Hacks for Busy Moms to Stop Stress & Regain Sanity
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…
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Hot Tips for Menu Planning
Menu planning doesn't need to take a long time. These tips will get you to meal time peace.
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
3 tips for a better grocery shopping list
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…
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You need to plan ALL the meals
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Create a template for your menu plan (make dinner faster & simpler!)
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
What to do when you don't get your most important things done in a day
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
When you pick the wrong top 3 for your to-do list...
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…
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The best planner is the one you look at (why a daily card works)
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…
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Create a clutter-free planner with a daily card to-do list
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…
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Life is full of growing pains
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
You are not your life's main character
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Living a fairy tale life
Your life is truly a fairy tale.
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Are you an unreliable narrator?
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
3 ways to make hospitality a habit
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to have people over for dinner without losing your cool.
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Home is for hospitality
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Disorder is normal - your house will get messy.
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
What is clutter?! ...and how best to deal with it
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?…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Declutter in 10 minutes a day
Declutter Workshop with slide deck download: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2021/the-abcs-of-doable-decluttering-with-free-workshop-replay/ (no email signup…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Perfectionism stops progress
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
What "counts" as a good weekly review?
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Weekly Review #2 - Calendar & List
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
You have to look at your lists to make them work. (Weekly Review Step #1)
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Planning for 2021 & the unknown, Step 5: Ready
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Be Prepared for 2021, no matter what happens, Step 4: Reset
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…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Get Ready for 2021, Step 3: Renew (no matter what happens, be ready)
One cannot rejoice if one is weary, exhausted, and cranky. And let's face it, 2020 has probably left us all three. So if we want to have any semblance of a…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Be ready for 2021! Planning Step #2 - Reflect on 2020
2020 was a weird, hard year, but God was still doing good work through it all. We need to take the time to notice and appreciate in gratitude God's good work…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Be ready for 2021! Planning Step #1 - Review 2020
What have you done with 2020? Is it relegated to being the punchline of every joke? If it is, then you need to review what actually happened, what you got…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to have a festive home for Christmas
What is the key to festivity in your household? Is it the Christmas tree, laden with ornaments? Perhaps it's the constant supply of fudge and candy…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Are holidays for family time?
While we enjoy spending time with our friends and family during this jovial season, we must keep our priorities and attitudes correct. These are holy days…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to enjoy your kids
How can you enjoy your kids more? Sure you love them and all, but do you enjoy them? What does enjoying your kids even mean? Does it seem to make your children…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Do you feel guilty for not playing more with your kids?
Kids love to play. That's a fact. But is it your job to play with them? That seems.... tiring. Mystie Winckler tackles this question on today's episode of Help…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
You don't need consistency, you need perseverance
If you've ever tried to break bad habits and build better ones, you've probably worked hard at consistency. We want to be more consistent, but what if more…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to persevere when you're tired at the end of the day
We all feel exhausted, but with the right perspective and attitude we can keep up the good work God has called us to because we have our trust and hope in him…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Do not grow weary in doing good, mama!
We all often feel tired, even exhausted, at the end of the day. So we wonder - Are we doing something wrong? How do we find the strength to keep going, day…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
A fruitful life or a successful life?
Simply getting more done does not actually matter. We need to be doing the right things and focusing on what's important, not superficial results. We don't…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Ordo amoris in a terrible no-good homeschool day
Maybe you start off homeschooling with grand visions and high hopes. Maybe you change your approach and your style and think that will fix the bad days and the…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Obedience will make you happier
IF you are obeying the One Whom you ought to obey, you will be happier, because you'll be doing what you were created to do.
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
6 Ways to Build Rest into Your Day
You don't necessarily need to add more productive hours into your day. You need to add more true rest to your day if you want to manage your time better.
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
10 Tips for Better Mornings
Mornings can be hard. These ten tips will help you be ready to start your day strong.
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to plan time for rest and renewal.
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How can moms take a sabbath day of rest?
Get help living this out in the day to day: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/membership
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Why moms need to be learners, too.
All the time I hear and see the question: How do you, as a busy homeschooling mom, make the time to read? Yes, they ask because they want to know how I fit in…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Do moms need a vision statement?
Perhaps you've been told that as a mother, you need to write a vision statement for yourself and your family in order to succeed. In this video, Mystie…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to stay sane as a stay-at-home mom
1. Have a creative hobby. God is a maker, and we are little sub-makers. Being creative is human. Having a creative outlet helps us feel connected and whole…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Do organized moms use schedules?
Are you always busy yet never getting to what seems must be done? Do you feel pulled in a million directions all the time? Inside Simply Convivial we clear…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to be a successful stay-at-home mom
Especially as stay-at-home moms it can be so hard to know how we're doing because we look at the standards and the definitions of success that come from the…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Time Management for Moms
There really is no such thing as time management. There’s only self-management. You don’t use your time better and end up with more. Usually it seems less time…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
How to menu plan a month at a time - or more!
How to menu plan 6 weeks at a time. Take stock of what’s in your freezer already. I had a ham, some pork, and beef soup bones in addition to the chicken…
- The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Make dinner faster with menu plan templates
Dinner happens every day (or at least I think it's supposed to). So what can we do to make that process easier, simpler, faster? Today, we're going to talk…