Homemaking Deep Dive | Planning Your Homemaking Year

Today, Jessica Fisher is going to share her system for planning the year ahead with purpose, not to do more and be more, but to align our monthly, weekly and daily rhythms with our values, our strengths and the path of faithful stewardship God has called us to for His glory and our good. 

In This Episode:

How this planning benefits your marriage and your walk with God.

Prevent emotionalism from sabotaging progress and growth.

5 Steps to Planning Your Homemaking Year. 

SHOW NOTES & RESOURCES

For full episode notes and resource links see corresponding blog post at theartofhomepodcast.com/blog and search "planning your homemaking year."

Connect with Jessica   

goodcheapeats.com | lifeasmom.com | @lifeasmomdotcom | @goodcheapeatsblog 

The Print & Go Planner (basis for today's episode)

Related Blog Posts from Jessica

A Self-Assessment for a New Year 

Principles & Goals 

Future Thinking 

Dreaming for the Future 

Chapters

• 6:17 Laying the Groundwork to Plan Your Year-What It Is & Is Not
• 13:44 Aligning Yearly Plans with Personal Values
• 15:59 How Planning Helps us Follow the Lord
• 18:14 How Does Planning Help Marriage?
• 21:12 Preventing Emotions from Sabotaging Progress & Growth
• 24:38 What We Are NOT Talking About; Manifesting vs Selective Attention
• 31:08 How to Plan Your Year in 5 Steps
• 31:30 Step 1: Dreaming-Get it Out of Your Head Onto Paper
• 40:49 Step 2: Explore What's Going Well & Identify the Positives
• 49:37 Step 3: Identify Systems or Targets
• 54:34 Steps 4 & 5: Create Monthly Pages, Create Weekly Pages
• 57:48 Some Practical Questions
• 1:13:08 Closing Comments, Takeaways & EPISODE EMOJI