Manage The How, What, When And Where. Do Not Get Burnout On the Homestead!
Homesteaders face a multitude of challenges every day, but it is not just homesteaders it is everyone in day to day life faces some type of challenges. With homesteaders, it is a little different as we might have outside jobs and then have to come home from working at the office to work the homestead. We often push ourselves to the limit of what we can do and get done in a day and still be rested for the next day. Sometimes we have to stop and think what we need to do to keep everything running like it needs too. Where things need to give so we can continue doing what we really want to do. It is not a lifestyle for everyone and it will never be easy but can be fulfilling and sometimes even an enjoyable experience.
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Most of the time we are spread pretty thin and it can get very overwhelming at times. Jobs outside the homestead, gardens, the children and all the community activities that we are doing. We have lots of responsibility as a homesteader with extras like taking care of our animals and their well-being, maintenance of houses and equipment. Sometimes if not all the time we are being pulled in a 100 different directions with all of them being a priority. We have to take the time to sit down and really put things in some kind of order.
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When we are feeling like there is no end and we are at wit's end is it because of something happening and it is just a bump in the road and it will pass or is it an everyday occurrence, if it happens all the time what is the way to fix this so it is more manageable in our lives. The weeds in the garden can wait a day so I can get some rest and not get burned out and quit homesteading because it is too much but it is what I really want to do. We did not want to be going to the supermarket eating pre-packaged foods but growing and canning our own vegetables and cutting and stacking firewood instead of turning up a thermostat.
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As you start homesteading, plan what you are going to do and not let it overwhelm you. Go forward a little at a time and add as you feel comfortable with what you are doing. Study and learn about the care of animals and how to care for them and about gardening as you start. Start small and then build, get your housing built or whatever it may be if you are buying raw land and then maybe a small garden. Then move to something like chickens and you will have fresh vegetables and fresh eggs. Then move to other things like having a milk cow and/or goat for butter and cheese. Make other decisions as you go, like do you want to raise animals for meat and if so learn how to process them yourself or find a place to process them for you. I have seen people move to fast and get burned out and quit because it was just too hard. It does not have to be hard if you manage the how, what when and where of homesteading.
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perfect timing with this - i was looking at the property with my coffee this morning, putting together a list in my head. gotta prioritize, and need to go by season so as not to get overwhelmed!
That is the idea, a little at a time. It works that is how we are going about it and we are even planning smaller on some things like the remodel of the small house. I was getting overwhelmed with looking at it as a whole so we broke it down into a room by room plan, and one thing at a time in that room. It makes things much more workable and much easier and you will see progress much faster.
ooh, that's brilliant! i had the conversation with someone about making circles. the house is the smallest, inside circle. then a bit out, then more out, then all the space. i hadn't thought about going deeper INSIDE yet.
THANK YOU!!! <3
Could not have said it better myself. The projects we take on at the homestead have to be such that I can get them done after work or rescheduled if time is an issue. The one thing we all tend to do is work too hard. Gotta have some rest once in a while. 🐓🐓
Rest is an important part of homesteading. It clears your mind and will make the thinking process easier. I have to schedule around when my body will be able to do things as some days it is hard to get up and moving.
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Baby steps to the elevator!😁
Yeah, one step at a time!