Monday Mastermind | A Weekly Planning Reset for Christian Wives | Soft and Grace Filled Living That is Christ Centered

0:00Welcome to your Monday, mastermind. Today is a brand new day with no mistakes in it. So let's praise God from whom all blessings flow. Because his mercies are new every morning. Are you ready to plan the week? Let's get started. Hey lovely, welcome to the lovely home podcast. I'm your host Evelyn and I'm also known as Your Rhythms Girl. Your Rhythms Girl who is going to help you stop going to bed and then immediately start tearing yourself down. Your Rhythms Girl who is going to help you start building routines and rhythms that work for how your brain is literally wired. Your Rhythms Girl who is going to encourage you to rest in the present, to rest in grace, and to acknowledge the loveliness that God has given you each and every day. Thank you so much for being here. Go ahead and grab a nice little drink or something and let's chat about all things lovely. The first thing we're going to do when it comes to planning our week is we are going to do a lovely exercise. So I want you to close your eyes and breathe in.

1:03Hold, breathe out. Open your eyes. Look around and find something lovely that you can see. Now find something lovely you can hear. Find something lovely you can touch. Find something lovely that you can smell. Find something lovely that you can taste. All five of these things are blessings from God. So I want you to say a quick little prayer of thanks. Please feel free to pause this recording whenever you see fit. Let's continue with writing down our chaos. I want you to write down any friction, relative blocks, hurdles that you may experience for today and for the week ahead. This is a brain dump where you're going to write down everything that comes to mind when you think of the next seven days. And whatever way you wish, surrender this chaos to God.

2:08Now I want you to locate your list of chaos and I want you to put a mark by anything that is a to-do or requires energy to tackle. Now I want you to circle three to five things that in this season needs to be tackled first. That is your priority to do list for the week. Next up I want you to write down one goal for today only. It could correlate with your chaos or it could be something totally random but create one goal for today specifically. After you have your one goal for the day written down, I want you to write down three side quests. Things to do that push you in the direction of the person you want to be done. These side quests do not need to happen today,

3:08but they will help you make the most of your day and of your life. Now name five lovely things you would like to do this week. A lovely thing for your marriage, a lovely thing for your career, a lovely thing for your home, a lovely thing for your personal life slash hobbies, and a lovely thing for your relationship with God. Before we begin strategizing for the next week by looking at all of our appointments and all of our commitments, I want you to first think of something that has made you smile recently. And if you are married, think of something cute, your husband has done recently. I hope that thought just made you smile. But now we are going to write down any appointments and commitments we have over the next week. Notice where in your week you will have free time to do the lovely things you wish to do

4:13as well as the things on your chaos list that you are prioritizing to get done this week. As you locate your commitments and your appointments and the things that you want to get done this week, I want you to write down the temptation you might find yourself having when it comes to actually tackling these things and doing these things. What and how is the double going to try to withhold you from doing these things that you know will make you feel lovely and will help you become the person you want to become? If you have any bad habits that you would like to tackle, go ahead and write down which bad habit you are going to be fighting against this week. After you have written that down, take a moment to surrender to God, this temptation, this bad habit,

5:14this problem you may have, and ask for his wisdom as you begin to tackle it. You are more than capable of tackling this temptation. You are strong enough to be able to cross off the things you circled on your to-do list as well as your goal of the day and your side quest. But now my friend, we are going to meal plan for our week. This can be done in any way that you wish. If you want to go grab your recipe books, if you have a recipe box, if you'd like to spend time on Pinterest, go ahead and start planning your meals for the week, but set a five-minute timer so that you can stay focused. Remember to take into account your commitments and weekly schedule as you plan these meals. After you are done meal planning, I'm so proud of you.

6:14You now have a game plan of how you are going to feed yourself and your household this next week. Go you. Now let's create that shopping list. Walk over to your kitchen and look through your fridge and pantry and know anything that you need to restock or get an order to be able to provide these meals you just planned for. And please send us a message with your favorite recipe that you were doing this week. You can send it over to our email at shopofingslovelyco.com or you can send us a DM on our Instagram, which is the lovely home podcast. I will be sharing personal recipes that I am going to be planning to use this next week over on the Instagram page. So I hope that you can send me yours as well and we can trade. The last thing we need to do before we go on and start tackling our day is we need to take this all back to Jesus.

7:14So please just take a moment and surrender this day this week. Your marriage, your home, over to your heavenly father. Let him be the ultimate designer of your day and let him just be sovereign. He loves you so much and what a blessing it is that we get to plan our week and our day around our Savior. Take a moment to just know three things you love about your heavenly father. And let's end this little morning podcast with prayer. I'm going to let a minute run on this podcast with some meditation music for you to just spend one minute praying these things to your heavenly father.

8:30Music Music Music Music Thank you so much for joining me for this morning that part of the Monday Mastermind. If you need any encouragement or motivation at all during the day, feel free to join us for our midday motivation podcast happening today at noon. I am so proud of you. You are so lovely. You are so capable of doing great things. This week is going to be amazing and God is with you throughout all of it.

9:32Praise God from whom all blessings will. And in his holy name, we surrender this week. You are lovely and so is your home. Did you enjoy today's episode? What was your favorite part? I would love to hear about it on a lovely rhythms call as well as discuss with you how you can create lasting rhythms that work for your mind, your menstrual phase and your leveling languages. You can book your lovely rhythms call right now at allthingsolid.co. And if you've just run out of no taking space, I highly recommend you checking out the lovely home planner while you're on the website. This undated planner can help you create rhythms that are founded on grace instead of guilt and is filled with encouragement specifically designed by me for Christian Homemakers. It would be such a gift if you left a five star written review on Apple Podcasts as well as leaving a five star rating on any of your podcast streaming platforms. If you want to know a way that you can encourage another sister in Christ, go ahead and send them this episode so that they can begin their journey in feeling more grace and less guilt in their mind, life and home.

10:35And lastly, I want to know your listening. So take a screenshot, upload it to your Instagram story and tag us at Lovely Home Podcast. Know that you are lovely and so is your home because of what Christ has done for you. And I look forward to talking to you again next week on a lovely home podcast. Goodbye!