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The Benefits of Habits in Your Homemaking

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

The Power of Habits:

In a book called The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business by Charles Duhigg he explained why habits can become automatic: “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.”

I don't know about you but I would like some good habits that would help me in my homemaking to “unfold automatically”. Because there is the flipside: “The problem is that your brain can’t tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it’s always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.”

What do we desire or crave? This is where we as keepers of our homes need to crave the right things to develop habits that help us in our day to day care of our homes. “Cravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.”

Good Habits Create Freedom:

We've all heard it takes 21 days to form a habit (although new studies now say it could take up to 66 days). Whatever the time frame, we need to realize it takes time and discipline to form new and good habits. Taking care of a home takes time and discipline. It doesn't happen naturally without effort on our parts nor did God design it that way. He has designed us to work.

But all things should be done decently and in order.

~ 1 Corinthians 14:40

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 in Homemaking:

When I speak of habits in homemaking, my mind goes to the routines in my day. You may have bedtime routines for your children or things you do every morning when you wake up. You probably already have a system in place of cleaning up the dinner table when dinner is finished. These are good “habits” that help you to keep order in your day and accomplish tasks that need taken care of at the same time.

What are some habits you would like to form in your homemaking? My top habits that I get the most benefit from are my morning and evening routines. There are many habits built within each of them but they have become something I do now without thinking. They start my day well and help me to finish well and feeling prepared for the next day.

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?

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!

People lose their way when they lose their why.

~ Gail Hyatt

Start small with little changes and maybe just one new habit at a time. This is why I have loved Flylady because they take one new habit every month that helps you in keeping your home.

Little changes do lead to big changes in your home. You and your family will be blessed with more time and less chaos. That's a good deal!

Community & Habits:

I thought this was an interesting take from the book: “The evidence is clear: If you want to change a habit, you must find an alternative routine, and your odds of success go up dramatically when you commit to changing as part of a group. Belief is essential, and it grows out of a communal experience, even if that community is only as large as two people.” 

Community helps us to change. God wired us to be part of community. If you can find a friend to keep you accountable to each other it may be an encouragement to both of you. I love being part of your community here but I always encourage the face to face as the best way to grow in any area of your life.

Final Thoughts:

What new habits are you hoping to form? Which one will you start with first? Mine has been exercise and my husband has been my accountability partner. I know it's not specifically related to my homemaking but it does help to give me the energy and strength I need to complete my daily tasks.

First we build our habits; then our habits build us.

~ Unknown Author

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If you're looking for a bit of encouragement in your homemaking. I'd love you to come join me in the 4th annual Online Homemaking Ministries Conference. This year it is bigger than ever and as always you have lifetime access to the teaching and resources from the conference. The speaker line up is great and the theme is Finding Purpose in Your Home. Come check out all the details here.

Related posts:

  1. EP 19: Benefits of Habits in Our Homemaking
  2. Homemaking 101 Series: Simple Ways to Get a Jump Start On Your Day
  3. EP 41: Getting Back into a Homemaking Routine after Summer
  4. 10 Simple Habits to Having an {almost} Always Clean Home


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Think to yourself before you respond to pause and Think to yourself before you respond to pause and pray. Two simple actions that take a moment but can give you wise words that are covered in gentleness, grace, and love.⁣
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Quote from EP 60: Gently Correcting Our Children you can listen in at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
We are called in Ephesians 4:29 to respond with wo We are called in Ephesians 4:29 to respond with words that give grace, encourage, and build up. This includes those hard moments when our kids are sinfully disobedient.⁣
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Listen in to EP 60: Gently Correcting Our Children at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
By affliction, Christ . . .⁣ shows us our empti By affliction, Christ . . .⁣
 shows us our emptiness and weakness,⁣
 draws us to the throne of grace,⁣
 purifies our affections,⁣
 weans us from the world,⁣
 and makes us long for Heaven.⁣
~ J.C Ryle
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Repost from @reagantrose 
Godliness > Your Plans⁠
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.⁣
~ Henry Ward Beecher⁣
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Come listen to EP 32: Preparing Our Families for Sunday Morning Worship at the link in my profile @thankfulhomemaker (click on the link under the blue arrows and then this image)
How many times does Sunday morning roll around and How many times does Sunday morning roll around and you find your heart in a state of chaos instead of calm to worship the Lord?  How many Sundays do you arrive at church and realize you haven’t taken the time all week to pray for your pastor or your church family? ⁣
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I want to share with you some simple steps we can take to prepare our hearts and the hearts of our families for Sunday morning worship to the Lord. ⁣
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The hope today is to get you to understand the purpose and the mission of the local church and then to move on toward how we can proceed with some simple steps to prepare our hearts and the hearts of our families for Sunday morning worship to the Lord.⁣
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"Home is the true wife's kingdom. ⁣ ⁣ Very lar "Home is the true wife's kingdom. ⁣
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Very largely does the wife hold in her ⁣
hands, as a sacred trust, the happiness ⁣
and the highest good of the hearts that ⁣
nestle there. In the last analysis, home ⁣
happiness depends on the wife. ⁣
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Her spirit gives the home its atmosphere. ⁣
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Her hands fashion its beauty. ⁣
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Her heart makes its love. ⁣
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And the end is so worthy, so noble, so divine, ⁣
that no woman who has been called to be a wife, ⁣
and has listened to the call, should consider any⁣
price too great to pay, to be . . .⁣
 the light,⁣
 the joy,⁣
 the blessing,⁣
 the inspiration, ⁣
of a home. ⁣
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The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, ⁣
filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing ⁣
something better than anything else her hands ⁣
could find to do beneath the skies.⁣
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A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of ⁣
home happiness. God sends many beautiful things ⁣
to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is ⁣
richer than that which He bestows in a mother who ⁣
has learned love's lessons well, and has realized ⁣
something of the meaning of her sacred calling."⁣
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~ J. R. Miller, "Secrets of Happy Home Life"
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