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Productivity & mindset for Christian homemakers

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Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

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Smile first: The secret to cheerful productivity at home

Your attitude affects everything in your home, so you should smile first, even when you feel overwhelmed. Your smile is your secret to cheerful productivity at home.

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When using AI gets you into trouble

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Have we been trained to seek the Right Answer as quickly as possible rather than struggle through figuring things out for ourselves? Do we help our children short cut to the solution when we notice they're having a hard time? It's not helping them.

In fact, it's making us all susceptible to the illusion of efficiency AI brings. When we chat with AI, it feels like we're short-cutting research and getting right to answers. AI is always affirming, and will make something up rather than tell you it doesn't know.

A friend once compared AI to a lazy 14-year-old boy: you have to verify all its work, it's never better than you could have done if you wanted to do it, and you sometimes have to badger it into doing what you told it to do and make it repeat its work. I do use AI several times a week with business-related tasks and have used it for research in home building, and I find the analogy accurate and useful.

June is our Smile & Start Challenge

We'll use the summer to fix our weekly review, vocations, and attitudes with extra Zoom calls and a focus on applying these concepts to real life right away.

Mystie

Repent. Rejoice. Repeat.

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Productivity & mindset for Christian homemakers

by Mystie Winckler

We can actually enjoy housework and love being homemakers when we focus on truth and work with gratitude.

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