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EP 19: Benefits of Habits in Our Homemaking

by Marci Ferrell
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When we have built good habits into our homekeeping they can become time savers for us and create more freedom into our days. #habits #home @thankfuhomemaker

 

When we have built good habits into our home keeping, they can become time savers for us and create more freedom into our days. When we work through the day efficiently, I can almost guarantee you that you will have more free time to do the things you enjoy doing. #habits #hellomornings #homemaking #cleaning #morningroutine @mferrell

We all have habits we already do on a day-to-day basis. Habits are things that just happen without us thinking about them anymore. We brush our teeth, make our beds, maybe we exercise regularly, eat meals, or wake up and have a cup of coffee. We do these things now without thinking – it’s so good to have things we do without thinking! But a habit isn’t just a by-product of repetition. We can also develop and form new habits.

I can’t determine what habits you would like to develop in your homemaking, but I can encourage you to ponder and start small by doing just one. Maybe you don’t clean the dishes up after dinner immediately and leave them until morning. Would you like to change that habit and do clean up the night before?

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Your first step would be to identify where you need and want to change and the why. A reward can be a great incentive, and it doesn’t have to be external but can be the simple thought of how it makes you feel when you’ve accomplished the task set before you. It feels pretty good to not wake up to dirty dishes in the sink.

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God made our brains to be automation machines. Whenever we learn something new, there’s a little middle manager guy in our brain saying, “Hey! Can we automate this? How can we automate this? How about now? Can we automate it now? He’s just itching to make a habit out of everything we do because God made our brains to pursue efficiency. When we learn something new, a part of our brain called the cerebrum is on full alert. It’s working overtime to process the new information, understand patterns and eager the skill. But as we repeat it over and over, all that processing power moves to the area of our brain called the basal ganglia – this is where our more subconscious activities are managed: things such as breathing, blinking, walking and brushing our teeth. We don’t think about how to do these things they are automated. They’re habits.
Habits allow our conscious brains to free up space by transferring the command center for that activity to the subconscious part of the brain, allowing us to then master new tasks while still performing old ones.

~ Kat Lee, Hello Mornings: How to Build a Grace-Filled, Life-Giving Morning Routine

“When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks. So unless you deliberately fight a habit—unless you find new routines—the pattern will unfold automatically.”

~ Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business

When we have built good habits into our home keeping, they can become time savers for us and create more freedom into our days. When we work through the day efficiently, I can almost guarantee you that you will have more free time to do the things you enjoy doing.

My 10 Simple Daily Homekeeping Habits: (these are elaborated on in the podcast)

1.  Start your morning off with some specific tasks to get your day moving in a forward direction.

2.  Always try to make your bed daily.

3.  Keep up with the dishes after every meal.

4.  Put things away where they belong when you’re done using them.

5.  Never let clothes pile up.

6.  Take the time to figure out a home filing system, so paperwork doesn’t clutter your counters.

7.  Have a spot at your back door or wherever your family enters your home where family members can quickly remove shoes and coats with a place to put everything.

8.  Clean up as you go along through your day.

9.  Continually declutter as you are tidying areas.

10.  Have some cleaning system in place.

And my bonus tip – this one’s a favorite:  Before you leave a room take two minutes to tidy it up.

“The challenge of ministry in our home is that we do not always feel very “spiritual” when we wash our dishes. It hardly feels significant to scrub our toilet. And we can feel that we are truly ministering when the Lord uses us to communicate a word of wisdom to someone, or He provides an opportunity to share the gospel with our neighbor. That seems like real ministry. And that is real ministry to be sure! But no more so than when we are wiping runny noses or cleaning the bathroom. That is because we have a very narrow view of true spirituality. The Lord wants to help us see the significance of ministry at home. He also wants to expand our vision for the multiple opportunities that we have for ministry in the home. Let’s ask the LORD to help us gain a biblical perspective of our ministry at home.”


~ Carolyn Mahaney, Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother

Scripture & Resources:

1 Corinthians 14:40

Romans 8:28

Flylady

The Joy of a Morning Routine

The Peacefulness of an Evening Routine

Podcast Ep. 14: Simple Tips for a Clutter-Free Home

Podcast Ep. 16: Simplify Your Housekeeping with a Cleaning Schedule

Podcast Ep 6: What Does Self-Discipline Look Like in Our Homes

My Simple Home Filing System

Where to Begin When You’re Overwhelmed

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It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is anot It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another’s, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.⁣
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What do you think of when you hear the word discer What do you think of when you hear the word discernment? The dictionary defines it as making a distinction between good and evil and truth and falsehood. As believers, we all desire to be discerning and wise in our choices. As we mature and grow in our knowledge of the scriptures, the hope is we will use that information to make choices in line with God's will.⁣
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We become discerning people by not just knowing what to think but how to think. Being spiritually discerning is an ability to see the world the way God does. This comes about as we grow and mature spiritually into the likeness of Christ. It is about seeing “All That's Good.”⁣
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“Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench i “Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn’t waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.”⁣
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As I’m sharing this episode, I’m finding mysel As I’m sharing this episode, I’m finding myself in a waiting room on the Lord, and it’s been a long one, and I don’t see an end near.  It has reminded me that when I gave myself to Him, I gave up my “right” to be in charge. The reality is we never were in charge anyway; we just came to that understanding when the Lord opened our eyes to His sovereign control over our lives.⁣
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Even though it is a truth I know or we know, how many times do we want to think that somehow we can effect change in our life situations?⁣
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Waiting is hard because there is no guarantee that my waiting will end in this lifetime. One thing I have learned – my waiting has deepened my trust in the Lord and has helped me to develop patience, perseverance, and endurance.⁣
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Six questions I have written in my Bible that have Six questions I have written in my Bible that have been a help to me over the years may be a help to you, too, to be prayerful and slow to speak. These are helpful questions not just in our friendships but in our marriages and with our children, and truly any of our relationships:⁣
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1. Is this the time to say this?⁣
2. Am I the person to say this?⁣
3. Is it necessary?⁣
4. Is it true?⁣
5. Is it kind?⁣
6. Do I need to say this?⁣
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We’ll be hurt; we’ll be the ones hurting others; selfishness is a battle; jealousy and envy raise their ugly heads; we have our fears and insecurities, failed expectations, the damage our tongues do to one another, not appropriating the gospel and these all come from hearts that are still battling sin. ⁣
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So when these threats to our friendship with one another in Christ come up, it shouldn’t surprise us that we have these issues, but what we need to keep at the forefront of our minds is how we respond and deal with them when they do come up. ⁣
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I want to walk us through some of these threats, and this list I’m working with isn’t exhaustive – there are many more threats than what I am addressing today – but these are areas that stood out to me that have been a battle within some of my friendships over the years. Sadly, it is often the sin I’m battling in my heart, and I need to get my thinking, attitudes, and actions lined up with God’s Word.⁣
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May we be women who are willing to return to the a May we be women who are willing to return to the authority of God’s Word, embrace God’s priorities for our lives and homes, and live out the beauty and wonder of womanhood as God created it to be.⁣
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