Simplified Organization Quotes

“The business done in the home is nothing less than the shaping of the bodies and souls of humanity. —G. K. Chesterton”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Obligations to others are opportunities for service, not impositions. We are given time and energy not to hoard them or dole them out in miserly pinches. The whole point of having time and energy is to spend them on others in service to God for His glory. They are just some of the talents (see Matt. 25:14–30) God has given us in this life that we are to return to Him with a profit.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Adulthood, however, is about having the responsibility and maturity to do the right thing whether you feel like it or not. Adulthood is playing the long game, acting according to the big picture without getting sidetracked by fleeting distractions.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Our children are baby trees of their own, not the fruit on our tree. We’re in the same orchard together, but the fruit we must be looking to increase is the fruit of the Spirit within our own lives. They, too, will grow the same fruits through the Spirit’s work in them.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Our productivity and dedication—our diligence—intensifies when we realize that we are not mere cooks and janitors cleaning up after people because somebody had to be stuck with that job. When we understand that our role within our families is raising immortal souls to glorify their Creator forever, weaving the fabric of society and becoming more like our Savior as we do, it makes sense that we’re called to work hard.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Caretaking—homemaking—precedes any other economic endeavor; without secure and steady homes, societies and economies crumble.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“When we come to housework, cooking, and even parenting with a “clock in and do the checklist” mentality, we end the day overloaded and undone. There are so many plates we’re supposed to keep spinning that we can’t even track them all down—especially when several have rolled down the hall and around the corner.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“If we believe an office-based life is the standard, then the always-on nature of homemaking will feel chaotic, demeaning, and pointless. But why do such a thing?”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Inspiration—and even affection, a change of orientation and attitude—will follow simple steps of faithfulness and lead to lasting change. The simple steps matter most. The simple steps will lead us onward and upward.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. When we get going around the house, we find satisfaction and natural momentum. Our energy builds when we begin with our responsibilities.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“routines and habits do make things easier, they do so by reducing the mental effort of decision-making and by increasing our strength and stamina through practice. The work itself will always take time and energy—and that’s OK.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“It’s easy to fixate on who we wish we were or who we want to become. Such thoughts usually lead us to despair because we never live up to our own standard. However, seeing homemaking as our vocation reminds us that we’re not working on a task to check off. We’re living within a capacity, working out a calling. Our vocation is a compass, directing our movement forward.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“No matter how much we get organized, life will always be outside our control. But our response to life—our attitude—is fully within our control.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“However, the real problem lies in thinking there’s a finish line we’re supposed to reach. Somehow, we have to forge a path between happy-go-lucky drifting and stressed-out rigidity. We can only do this if we embrace the way God made the world. God made the world for a purpose. He made us for a purpose. God’s purpose for us is to glorify Him and enjoy Him forever. We begin that forever call here and now, in this life, in the midst of our day-to-day work.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“If we approach organization from a desire to serve others better rather than to make ourselves more impressive, we will fall into discouragement less often because our heart is in the right place. Our attitude will be organized.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Organization is managing our resources to increase the good works we are available and able to accomplish.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“The goal of organization and planning is not to be in control or look put-together. The goal is to be equipped and ready to respond obediently to God in the moment as He sends needs our way.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Homemaking is not about mastering cleaning lists and chores but about loving and serving people, making homes in which they—and we—can flourish.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Too often, we look for solutions that will make the work go away when what we actually need are solutions that will keep us consistently, repetitively doing the work needed.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy. —Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done

“Past societies didn’t rely on colleges to train for occupations. They used apprenticeships and relational training. Children learned how to work from their parents. Tradesmen learned their craft from an experienced master. Knowledge and skills were passed along via relationships over time.”
― Mystie Winckler, Simplified Organization: Learn to Love What Must Be Done