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Baby steps, day sixteen
Woke up, made the bed, got dressed to shoes, cleaned the sink, made breakfast, and headed out for a date with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stonebender and a shopping trip. I'm only just getting around to the rest of my routine, but that's okay. There's so much less stress around it because I'm doing a little every day, rather than trying to get it all done at once.
(The baby steps are at this FlyLady link.) I'm adding "(and do 15 minutes of decluttering)" to every day's tasks, because until I get rid of the clutter, I'll never get on top of the cleaning.
Day One: Shine the sink
Day Two: Get dressed to lace-up shoes
Day Three: Read FlyLady BigTent emails
Day Four: Look at sticky note (in bathroom and kitchen)
Day Five: Write down negative things you're saying to yourself, then write down positive stuff to counter that
Day Six: Spend two minutes on a Hot Spot
Day Seven: Pick out clothes for tomorrow
Day Eight: Make binder for control journal
Day Nine: Add a five-minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.
Day Ten: Set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine until the timer goes off.
Day Eleven: Spend 15 minutes writing down some of your favorite inspirational phrases on a new Control Journal page.
Day Twelve: Delete from your inbox all the e-mails from FlyLady.
Day Thirteen: Find one of Kelly’s missions and go and do it.
Day Fourteen: Today, go read the essay that Kelly wrote about using a calendar.
Day Fifteen: Add making your bed to your morning routine.
Day Sixteen: Today, look in your inbox for an e-mail from FlyLady. It can be a Morning Musing, a testimonial, or an essay. Just take a few minutes and read over it. You never know what she is going to discuss. You can also go directly to the FlyLady BigTent group and read the messages.
Reading the emails is already part of my daily routine, but hey, whatever. Today's is telling about the FlyLady "De-clutter Games" that start tomorrow. The baby steps take priority, but if I have extra oomph, I'll do the De-clutter Games challenges, as well.
Off to do the rest of the list and make dinner. Pics in a bit.
I was gonna declutter my closet, but James picked the Mackenzie table. We call it the Mackenzie table because our friend Mackenzie is storing it here, and we're using it in the meantime. I've wanted to make a proper tea cart out of it for a while, so I worked on that while I decluttered.
Here it is before (the whole thing and the drawers), and the after will be under the cut tag.
stonebender and a shopping trip. I'm only just getting around to the rest of my routine, but that's okay. There's so much less stress around it because I'm doing a little every day, rather than trying to get it all done at once.(The baby steps are at this FlyLady link.) I'm adding "(and do 15 minutes of decluttering)" to every day's tasks, because until I get rid of the clutter, I'll never get on top of the cleaning.
Day One: Shine the sink
Day Two: Get dressed to lace-up shoes
Day Three: Read FlyLady BigTent emails
Day Four: Look at sticky note (in bathroom and kitchen)
Day Five: Write down negative things you're saying to yourself, then write down positive stuff to counter that
Day Six: Spend two minutes on a Hot Spot
Day Seven: Pick out clothes for tomorrow
Day Eight: Make binder for control journal
Day Nine: Add a five-minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.
Day Ten: Set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine until the timer goes off.
Day Eleven: Spend 15 minutes writing down some of your favorite inspirational phrases on a new Control Journal page.
Day Twelve: Delete from your inbox all the e-mails from FlyLady.
Day Thirteen: Find one of Kelly’s missions and go and do it.
Day Fourteen: Today, go read the essay that Kelly wrote about using a calendar.
Day Fifteen: Add making your bed to your morning routine.
Day Sixteen: Today, look in your inbox for an e-mail from FlyLady. It can be a Morning Musing, a testimonial, or an essay. Just take a few minutes and read over it. You never know what she is going to discuss. You can also go directly to the FlyLady BigTent group and read the messages.
Reading the emails is already part of my daily routine, but hey, whatever. Today's is telling about the FlyLady "De-clutter Games" that start tomorrow. The baby steps take priority, but if I have extra oomph, I'll do the De-clutter Games challenges, as well.
Off to do the rest of the list and make dinner. Pics in a bit.
I was gonna declutter my closet, but James picked the Mackenzie table. We call it the Mackenzie table because our friend Mackenzie is storing it here, and we're using it in the meantime. I've wanted to make a proper tea cart out of it for a while, so I worked on that while I decluttered.
Here it is before (the whole thing and the drawers), and the after will be under the cut tag.
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