FFH036: Why and How to Make Homemaking Goals

As a homemaker, you can become a little isolated. You spend most of the day at home or carting around the kids. You might work outside the home or work at home but you need to take care of your family too. But setting homemaking goals can help you achieve what you want for your family.

Do you set goals for yourself and your family as a homemaker?

In today’s podcast, I’m talking about goals setting for the homemaker. Before you decide you’re not a homemaker, hear me out.

If you care for your family, make the meals, do the shopping, wash the clothes, take care of the house and the list goes on, you are a homemaker.

Homemaking Goals

You might have another job outside the home or work from home but you are still a homemaker. Or the CEO of your house.

You’re the one that keeps things running smoothly, gets people where they need to go and keep them fed too.

As a homemaker, it’s easy to go from one task to another. Getting things done that need to are right there in front of you. But those things may take most of your time instead of the things that are really important.

This is where having homemaking goals come in. When you have a goal to work towards, you become more intentional about the things you do and let the less important things fall by the wayside.

Have a listen to the podcast below and I’ll walk you through how I set my homemaking goals and how you can too.

Show Notes…

The notes below are not a word-for-word transcript but more like the cliff notes version of the podcast.

Why Set Homemaking Goals?

Let’s talk about setting homemaking goals. First, if you work outside the home and take care of your family, you know you have set tasks your boss wants you to do. It’s what makes up your job outside of the home.

You might even have goals or measurements set for your job outside the home. This is how your boss or company measures how well you are doing your job. They may set these tasks for you or you might be the one to set the goals.

Either way, you have a guide to keep you on track for what your purpose is in that company.

Our job as homemakers is to make a safe, comfortable haven for our families to come home to.

We might share it with our spouse, or we might take on most of the work. But if there is no intention in building and taking care of the home, it will become stagnant.

Having set homemaking goals helps you see where you want your family to be in 6 months, a year, five years and beyond.

It helps you to see beyond that pile of dishes in the sink or the mountain of laundry in front of the washer. It gives you direction.

What is a Homemaking Goal?

A homemaking goal can be anything you or your family wants to achieve in making your house a home. To make it more enjoyable for the whole family, more comfortable, more manageable.

One example of a homemaking goal might be to eat at home as a family two nights a week.

Or maybe to keep the sink free of dirty dishes every night before bed so you wake up to a clean sink and kitchen each morning.

Or it could make changes to how your family spends money each month so you can save up for a once in a lifetime vacation before the kids are grown up and move out of the house.

Each family and each homemaker will have different goals for the stages of life they are in.

If your kids are little, getting them to do one chore each day to help around the house might be your main homemaking goal.

If you are deep in debt, your goal might be to reduce your debt by 50% in the next year and a half.

It might be to set up systems so everyone in the household can help with the basic chores and keep the house running smoothly instead of it all falling to one person.

All of these would be great homemaking goals.

Now you have a homemaking goal or two in mind let’s talk about how to make those goa...