As a homemaker when you are the one in charge of your day and a lot of your tasks you need to be doing you can easily write off in your mind as it can wait or it doesn’t need to be done necessarily that day it’s hard to get the things done you should be getting done if you don’t have the discipline. Take the challenge to become a disciplined homemaker.
As a homemaker myself I have written down everything I’d like to get done for the day and then never get to certain things on the list for no other reason than I didn’t want to and I lacked discipline. Everyone needs a little help so I created this disciplined homemaker challenge to help us all become better in our homemaking.
Who the disciplined homemaker challenge is for
This is for the homemaker that realizes they are falling short in the discipline area of homemaking. Someone that is not getting things done because they simply don’t want to or are not prioritizing it over self pleasures.
This is not for the one that is working all day on tasks and never putting themselves first. If you are working hard all day and still not getting everything done that you’d like to this is not necessarily a discipline problem unless you are spending much more time than you need to be on completing your tasks.
The disciplined homemaker challenge
You can do this challenge for a week or months, however long it makes sense for you. Hopefully at the end of the challenge the key points have becoming a habit and second nature for you. The goal is long term change not short term and then going back to your old ways.
Things to focus on:
- Get everything done that you put on your to do list
- Every time you stand up or enter a room look around for what you can put away or clean up quickly and do it
- Do something to bless someone else each day
- Have accountability and checkin’s
Get everything done that you put on your to do list
Write down everything you want done each day and each day of the week. Write down literally every single thing you want to get done. Don’t leave anything out so that you don’t have to think what needs done, you can just look. This way nothing gets missed.
If you feel like getting everything you wrote down would be impossible, write down how long it’d take to complete each task. A lot of times you will see it doesn’t actually take that long to do it’s just a daunting task to complete in your mind.
Every time you stand up or enter a room look around for what you can put away or clean up quickly and do it
Doing this will make it so your home is naturally much more tidy and peaceful. It also makes things not pile up causing you to spend valuable time picking up big messes. If you keep up with your space as the messes come along it won’t cut out time out of your day when you could be doing something else on your list.
You have probably walked by a pile or an item thinking that needs put away or cleaned up and didn’t just go ahead and do it. A lot of times there’s no reason for this other than you simply didn’t want to. Instead when you think that, do it.
Even better look around when you can to find things you can put away or throw away. This is a great practice to make a habit out of. The more you do it the more you realize how little time and effort it takes and how silly you were for putting it off.
Same things go for the projects you’ve been putting off. A lot of times you will realize it took very little time and work to complete them, but you worked them up in your head so they kept getting put off and made out to be a big deal.
Things like like going through your clothes, your kids toys, kitchen cabinets, organizing a closet, etc. These are tasks that don’t take too much time, but at least for me I find it easy to work them up and put them off.
Do something to bless someone else each day
Homemaking is such an amazing opportunity to bless the one’s around you. Taking care of your home and family is a blessing already. You can also look for ways to go out of your way to bless them.
Things like picking up a chore that is normally you’re husband’s for the day. Maybe your kid like’s a certain meal and you haven’t made it in a while, make it this week. If you are baking cookies think about bringing a plate over to one of your neighbors. There are so many ways to bless the people around you. A lot of times it doesn’t take much effort at all, do it when you can. This is such a beautiful habit and mindset to pick up.
Always looking for a way to bless other’s instead of self pleasing is something that doesn’t always come naturally, but once you make it a habit it will soon become something that bless you much more than your self pleasing habits did.
Think about all the times you sat scrolling on your phone and were still bored. Think about how it makes you feel when you see someone light up because they knew you thought about them and wanted to bless them.
You will quickly see how much more gratifying that was then doing something for yourself that still makes you bored or in a neutral state.
A lot of times getting up and blessing someone really doesn’t take much effort so if you make yourself do it in the beginning soon you won’t even have to work yourself up to doing it because you know it really doesn’t take much of you to do so.
Have accountability and checkin’s
Accountability will make a huge difference for you during the disciplined homemaker challenge. At the end of the day look back at what you didn’t get done and write out why they didn’t get done. Sometimes things are out of your control and that’s okay. See where you can fit those tasks in the following day. Don’t let them just not get done this way you don’t get really behind.
Sometimes you only have to blame yourself as to why they didn’t get done and that’s where the accountability comes into play. When you see that you have no excuse but to blame yourself and realize you lacked discipline you will be more aware of this and it will help drive you to doing better. If you get behind and you have to make up the tasks the following day you will feel the burden of it and it will help you to prioritize your list in the future.
Another way to help this become a transformation that lasts a lifetime is having accountability with your family. It’s easy to write things off in your had as the task doesn’t matter or need done if it’s only you saying they need done, so include your family.
This isn’t supposed to be a power thing for your family just something that they can help you with your journey to becoming the homemaker you want to become.
Talk to them about tasks they’d like you to do and tell them what task you’d like to get done as well. Write them down and show them the lists of things you’ll get done each day of the week. At the end of each day or when you can talk to them about how it went and if you fell short and why. If you wrote down those reasons already you can reference that.
Again, this is not where they should scold you or make you feel like you’re failing. Their job in this is to help support you and keep you accountable. Just simply telling them is keeping you accountable. Knowing at the end of they day you will be telling your husband you didn’t get something or things done on your list because you simply didn’t want to or prioritize it will help to push you to getting it done. Also them knowing where you struggle, they may have ideas on how to help you. There are many benefits to including your husband in the disciplined homemaker challenge.
Disciplined homemaker challenge
This homemaker challenge isn’t about creating perfection or feeling like a failure if you realize you fall short in areas. It’s simply a challenge you can do if you feel like you need to become more disciplined in your homemaking.
Realizing you need to be better is an amazing start! Truly working on becoming better is even better! Try this challenge for yourself and do it again, if you find yourself slipping back into your old habits. The life you can create with some discipline is truly amazing. You and your family are worth the discomfort growth brings. You got this!
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