Grounded in Simplicity

In this episode of the Grounded in Simplicity podcast, we're giving you tips for peaceful productivity. From getting rid of negative thoughts to setting boundaries, we're covering everything you need to stay productive and focused. If you're looking to increase your productivity, then this episode is for you! We've got tips to help you stay focused and productive all day, every day. Whether you're a work at home mom or a homesteader with a dream, these tips will help you achieve your goals. Thanks for listening! Links mentioned in this episode: Living Well Planner: https://www.notsomodern.com/livingwellplanner/ Cube Timers: https://amzn.to/3VCs1Oh Forest App Pomodoro Timer: https://www.forestapp.cc/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/groundedinsimplicity Support the show

Are you tired of feeling like you have to conform to society's expectations? Are you ready to learn how to live an authentic life? If so, this Grounded in Simplicity podcast episode is for you! In this episode, we help moms shake off the feeling that they need to conform to society's standards. We know it can be difficult to hold boundaries when everyone around you seems to think they know what's best for you, but it's important to remember that you are the only one who knows what's truly best for you. We also talk about how society often judges women who don't conform to its expectations, and how this can be incredibly discouraging. But don't let the haters get you down! You are living your truth, and that is an admirable thing. Keep doing you, and don't let anyone else tell you what you should or shouldn't be doing. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Grounded Simplicity Podcast. If we were able to help you in any way, please share this episode with a friend. Support the show

Struggling to reduce your feed costs? We know that the rising prices of feed can be concerning. That's why we've put together this list of ways for you to reduce your costs. Some methods are easier than others, but all of them will help you save money in the long run. Feeding your animals can be expensive, but it doesn't have to be. Try out some of these methods and see how much you can save. You may be surprised at just how much you can cut down on your expenses by making a few small changes. Listen to this week's episode for more information on reducing your feed costs! We're so happy you listened to this episode of the Grounded in Simplicity Podcast! If we were able to help you in any way, please share this episode with a friend. We hope that you found this podcast helpful, informative, and engaging. We would love it if you left us a review on Apple Podcasts too! You can also join us over on Patreon at Grounded in Simplicity and help to support this podcast as well as become a patron and get a behind the scenes look at the creation of our podcast and even have some input on future episodes. We're so grateful for your support and hope you continue to enjoy the Grounded in Simplicity Podcast! Support the show

Do you want to save money on groceries? Of course you do! Who doesn't want to save a little bit of money? That's why we've got some great tips for you on this episode of the Grounded in Simplicity Podcast. Follow these tips and you'll be able to save money feeding your family. You'll be able to afford the things you really need – without breaking the bank. Listen to this episode now and start saving today! Resources: Living Without The Grocery Store 7 Ways to Save Money on Your Grocery Bill Support the show

As a busy mom of three, Danielle knows the importance of finding time to herself. In this episode of the Grounded in Simplicity podcast, she discussed with Bonnie about the book The Four Tendencies. From the conversation, there are four personality types: Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, and Rebel. Each personality type has its own strengths and weaknesses. For example, Upholders are great at following rules and meeting deadlines, but they may have a hard time relaxing or taking breaks. Questioners are good at challenging the status quo and thinking critically, but they may have a hard time making decisions. Obligers are good at meeting other people's expectations, but they may have a hard time meeting their own. Rebels are good at thinking outside the box and taking risks, but they may have a hard time following rules or routines. Which personality type are you? Listen to the whole podcast episode to better understand which personality matches you. Support the show

Today's episode is something that all people who thinks of starting to homestead can relate. This is a relevant topic that most of us can get tips and tricks. As how Danielle mentioned, anybody can start homesteading because homesteading is more of a lifestyle choice than it is. It's kind of more like a lifestyle or like a mental attitude more than anything else. If we think about it, homesteading, in large part is all about food. We are producing food, preserving food. It's one of our core needs. There's a lot of things that we think we need that are really just things that we could actually survive without. But if you don't have food and water, you literally cannot survive. You'd need to know how to prepare that food. And if it comes to water, you didn't know how to purify that water, how to store that water. If you are someone who struggles with boiling water, then that's a great place to start. And just like gardening, if you think just because you killed a few plants that you can't garden, you don't know how to garden, you'll never be able to garden, anything can be taught. Same thing goes for cooking. Anything that you need to start your homesteading journey can be learned. You just have to have the proper mindset. Listen to the full podcast episode and find out how Bonnie and Danielle started homesteading. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

For today's episode, Bonnie and Danielle discussed about taking chances and getting outside of our comfort zones. As an entrepreneur, we are a little bit up, we're wired a little bit differently than people who don't have that mindset. Partially because as an entrepreneur we tried to take on the world instead of just delegating tasks. There's a lot of homesteaders that hold themselves back because they're not willing or they're too afraid to take a leap that would put them in an uncomfortable position. They maybe don't want to move away from family or away from the area they're living in. Maybe they're too scared to get started because they don't think they have all the resources that they need. Regardless of what scale we're talking about, when it comes to taking chances, anything that we try is a chance. A good example is when you go and get a degree from college and you're taking the chance that you'll actually be able to get a job with that degree or that there'll be a need for that for your skill set. A lot of times with homesteading, in general, we are taking on something that is outside of the status quo, outside of the norm. And we're going to get a lot of pushback, it's going to require us to learn skills we've never had to learn before, do things we probably didn't grow up doing. We have to really just acknowledge that those are bold actions, and that we are capable of doing those things even when it seems scary. Listen the whole podcast episode and see how Bonnie and Danielle provided tips on how we can start taking chances and finally get out of our comfort zone. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

For today's episode, Bonnie and Danielle talked about Silencing Your Inner Critic. There are times that stress are all over the wrong places all the time and that controls our fight or flight response. It is where our brain will usually go to when we have anxiety and get overwhelmed and these negative thought processes continue. Putting it down on a piece of paper and being able to physically look at it actually helps. It changes how the thought process back to that frontal lobe and causes us to look at it a lot more rationally with the logical part of our brain. Because only then we can really dissect it. Writing it down helps us to see that it's not as big and scary as our brains led us to believe. It's not something we need to run away from, we can tackle this, we can deal with this. It's just our brain made it feel bigger than it was. Listen to today's full episode and see how Bonnie and Danielle can help you Silence Your Inner Critic. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Today's episode is really a good conversation. We discussed how we can overcome our setbacks. If we're talking about the setback itself, there's a lot of times that there are things that are outside of our control. Whether it be a health issue, or the economy or a job loss. And so a lot of times we just have to go, "Okay. This is this is my reality right now. This is the circumstance. Now, what do I do about it?" You can have a few people that you can feel comfortable sharing with that aren't gonna judge you for it. That's the hardest thing. That's probably why we don't usually vent and internalized so much is because we've been told by so many different people that the way we feel is wrong. And you have no right to complain or if it is a concern to you, you have a right to have that concern. Other people aren't going to think that your problem is as big as their problems. But if it is a big problem to you, then it is a big problem you can vent out. Also, you can just have a notebook that you're just writing out all of your thoughts. Because we've internalized stuff for so long that we kind of need something that's going to draw that out for us. But the important thing is to write out everything you're thinking without any negative judgment towards yourself. To know the steps in detail, we suggest you listen to the whole podcast episode. You'll definitely get helpful ways on how to overcome your setbacks in all aspects of your life. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Flowers are not just for looking at! Did you know that many flowers are also edible? In this video, we'll go over 21 different plants that you can use as a source of food. From common garden flowers to more exotic blooms, we've got you covered. So the next time you're out in the yard or garden, be sure to give these plants a try! Links mentioned in this episode: Edible Weeds: https://www.therusticelk.com/edible-weeds/ 2022 Seed Varieties - https://bit.ly/3GQeHye Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals - https://bit.ly/3HQHvYD The Self Sufficient Life - https://bit.ly/3rMwqSO Not So Modern Living - https://bit.ly/3GKSL7u Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to watch too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Review this Podcasts on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/grounded-in-simplicity/id1502793179 Support the show

Today's episode is different. Bonnie and Danielle, both homesteading moms just talked about how their life is on a daily basis. Raising animals, raising their kids, what they do on daily and how they get the kids to do some chores. This episode is a very timely to those who are planning to finally homestead. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Do you think that our current food system is sustainable? In this episode, we take a look at the problems with our modern food system and ask whether or not we've created these issues ourselves. We also explore some potential solutions to these problems and how we can work together to create a more sustainable future. Support the show

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Today is another special episode of the Grounded in Simplicity Podcast. We are wrapping up by giving you Things You Can Do to Take Action and Start Working on your Homesteading Dream. To start, you kind of have to learn to let go of those things and only keep things that you really love or really need. We should only have the things that bring us joy, which are the things that you need especially leading this kind of lifestyle. But you can definitely learn to minimize and simplify. Learning to let go of the consumers mindset can be very, very hard. But as you know, homesteaders are people who want to learn to homestead. We should be producing things and producers, instead of so much consumers. The best way to do this is to turn their phones off, or at least put them in another room while you go do something else. We don't need our phones all the time and make yourself hard to get ahold to get things done and be more productive, but in all honesty, it helps you be less of a consumer and gets you away from the consumer mindset because when we're constantly on our phones. We're usually scrolling on Social Media, or some other thing and then we end up with a lot of advertisements that are trying to get us to buy the things we don't need. You can use this season of your life wherever you're at as a learning season. And remember everything is just a season, everything changes. People change all the time. Situations change all the time. Everything is constantly changing. So you have to learn how to use the seasons that you're in to make your dreams move forward without having to be on this big cloud of land or have a big garden or whatever it is that you dream. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Another episode for Grounded in Simplicity! This time we discussed about Goal Setting for Homesteader. Goal setting help you start your homestead and keep it going without being overwhelmed, regardless of where you live. Because if you just have an open ended goal, then you're going to find a lot of time passed without you actually accomplishing anything. And that's also when you're going to see yourself take on a lot of things that are not relevant. And you end up kind of all over the place. It is important to FIND YOUR WHY. The reason why you need to have a why is it helps you have purpose. You'll never always motivated. There are some points in your life that you feel exhausted by the things you're doing in your life. Having a 'why' helps you focus more and keeps your drive. You should also always START SMALL. Because we want to make sure that we're starting small, and not trying to take on too much, especially the first year of homesteading. Keep everything small and manageable instead of jumping in with both feet and trying to do all the things. Starting small will not get you overwhelmed. And that's what we are trying to avoid. We also talked about the SMART acronym which stands for SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACHIEVABLE, RELEVANT and TIME BOUND. Listen to the full podcast episode to know more about this acronym and why it is helpful in goal setting. Links mentioned in the episode: streamyard,com/facebook https://www.almanac.com/gardening/frostdates https://therusticelk.com/challenge Kitchen Botanicals The Not So Modern Housewife Youtube Channel The Not So Modern Housewife The Self Sufficient Life Support the show

It's another episode of the Grounded in Simplicity. For today, we discussed how you can not be overwhelmed during the peak season in the homestead. It is best to write down what you need to start each week. It's like knowing like what your benchmarks are going to be. If you can have a note written in your calendar to have a roadmap of the things that you are going to try to work on or focus on every week. The nice thing with having a list is it's pretty consistent from year to year. It makes it easier as you do it more. So every year, it gets a little bit easier, because you can just look back on those notes that you have created previously. May it be in gardening, buying seeds or preserving foods or doing groceries. The more stuff that accumulates, the more it's still in our subconscious mind that all of this stuff needs to get done in a certain period of time. It is like our brain keeps a running and the more stuff that goes undone, and the more stuff that starts to accumulate, then the more our anxiety builds. Simplify your routine, simplify your life. Figure out what you can take out like, it really comes down to figuring out what your priorities are, what you're going to focus on, what you're going to dedicate your time to. And then figuring out how you can either eliminate everything or eliminate or delegate everything else. Always remember, you cannot do everything on your own. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Here we are with another episode! Today we talked about being prepared and what that looks like realistically. It means focusing on the things that are more likely to occur. We can't foresee every possible scenario. It's more about just doing what we can with what we have and focusing on best case scenario playing or hope for the best plan for the worst. We can't really depend on the supply chain, necessarily, but at the same time, you find ways to source locally. There's plenty to go around. It's just a matter of using those resources better. Focus not so much on having a stock, a long term stockpile. But focus on preserving your own stuff, having enough for your family for however many months or at the most for the next year. And really just focusing on creating or learning skills that are going to help you in emergency help you to rebuild. In the end, it is best to support our local farmers and find ways to source that stuff locally to help you become prepared in any kind of situation. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

Today's episode is something that anyone can relate. We've talked about how the pandemic changed our perspective when it comes to being self-sufficient. We have been challenged by how some of our needs became unavailable in the market. Thus, it lead us to try new things and be more reliable of ourselves. We have discussed 5 Tips to Become Self-Sufficient. We enumerated each one and explained how to achieve them. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

In today's episode, we talked about The Reality of Life Balance We grew in a generation where most of the tasks are assigned to women because men need to go out and work for the family. We grew up having this kind of mindset. As moms, we tend to think that we have to be martyrs. And we have to do everything ourselves. Where in fact, men and women should be balanced in everything. Regardless of your differences, you all pull together, you support each other, and you did whatever it took to keep each other afloat. Family should be more of a team effort. We tell ourselves that life balance means that we can like juggle all of the plates at the same time, or keep all the plates spinning. But no, we just have to delegate tasks or take a moment to ourselves to process whatever's going on. And then, in the end, you're ready to move forward and get done. Always remember, you don't have to do everything every single day, you have to let go. And you can't feel guilty. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show

In this episode, we discussed the difference between being productive and being busy. The 3rd and previous episode, we talked about how to set our daily rhythms. And that can also be applied to this 4th episode. Being productive is when you're able to produce a good number of tasks for the day. That is when you're able to check things on your list and being done with your priorities. It gives such an accomplishment to be productive. On the other side, being busy is just about getting all the things done just because others are expected you to complete them in a certain amount of time. Again, you're not suppose to do everything all by yourself in an instant. You have to set goals for yourself. The goals that are sustainable and you think you can do on a daily basis. Always remember, each day is going to be completely different. And make sure that you put at least one goal that you want to get accomplished. Links mentioned in this episode: 2022 Seed Varieties Pampered Gardener Box by Kitchen Botanicals The Self Sufficient Life Not So Modern Living Episode Sponsor Kitchen Botanicals Use code GROUNDED for 20% off your first purchase. If you enjoyed today's episode and you love this show, can you help us convince others to listen too? All you have to do is leave a quick review and rating (and subscribe if you haven't already). That would mean the world to us. Thank you so much! Support the show