How To Manage Your Household Intentionally

Being a homemaker is not an easy job! It is one that is never-ending, which requires you to be a wise managers of your time, and have self-discipline. If you are going to be able to keep your home well cared for and care for your husbands and kids, you have to manage your household intentionally. When things get out of control in our homes and seem overwhelming, often it is because we aren’t managing our homes and time in the way God has called us to.

You must discipline yourself to manage your time wisely and regularly manage your responsibilities to prevent them from becoming overwhelming. If you are consistent in caring for the different areas, it won’t take a large amount of time to maintain it daily.

There is always something that can distract us and keep us from being intentional in managing our households.

Sometimes as women at home, we just get lazy. We get distracted by TV, Facebook, books to read, etc. We are called to be keepers of the home, and it is up to us to discipline ourselves to prioritize and stay on task.

Here’s How To Manage Your Household Intentionally while being efficient as homemakers.

If your home is in chaos and you don’t know where to begin, don’t just despair and do nothing. Make a list of what is most important to take care of first, then begin taking small steps to get your home back in order. If your kids are old enough to help, get them to work with you and start tackling things one at a time.

The key to good goal setting is making sure that your goals are reasonable and achievable. Accomplishing a little each day is more realistic than cleaning the entire house in one day.

Break it down into reasonable expectations for your family.

Realize that if you have two or three little ones running around every day, your home probably won’t be quite as spotless as it was before you had kids. Once you decide what is realistic, you have a better idea of where to put your energy and focus.

Next, I would encourage you to sit down and write a list of the jobs that you do want and need to accomplish regularly in your home. Using the list of jobs that need to be regularly done, assign the tasks to a day of the week. Schedule 15 minutes each day to work on the area of the day.

Once you feel you are caught up a little, you can spend more time as needed in these areas. You can also consider using Saturday for deep cleaning or for bigger jobs.

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How do you manage your household effectively?

If you have kids, it may make this a little bit more challenging for you. I suggest that you involve them in helping and set up a chore chart for them to help you maintain a clean, orderly home. This gives you the opportunity to teach them how to clean and do household chores, and how to be helpers. It also ensures that the jobs get done. They may not be done quite as well as you would do them, but the kids are learning, and the tasks are being completed.

When our kids were young, I rarely did dishes, vacuuming, laundry, dusting, etc. I took the time to teach them how to do the jobs, and gave them daily chores, rotating them so they learned to do different jobs. This not only helped me maintain a somewhat clean house, but it also helped my kids develop character, and learn to be good little helpers and workers.

Today’s Manage Your Household Intentionally challenge:

1. Determine what your (realistic) housekeeping goals are.

2. Create a cleaning schedule – (Get a free one here: Creating An Effective Chore Routine)

3. Spend 15 minutes on one area today.

So what about you Mom?

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