Baby steps, day seventeen

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(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: Read a FlyLady email



Day Seventeen: Today, think about what time you are going to bed each night. Set a specific bed time and stick to it. You need your rest. Put this on your Before-Bed Routine.

Since work starts up again in a few days, I'm going to start going to bed at my work-night time, 10pm, and see how that goes. I've been needing less sleep lately, so if I wind up waking up at 4 a lot, I'll switch it to 11.

Today starts the FlyLady's clutter "olympics" thing, so I may do more decluttering than just one fifteen-minute session, but we'll see. It's kind of fun, now that the obvious surfaces are decluttered, to get into drawers and cupboards. This is the stuff that will make it easier to keep everything tidy, because there will be free space for storing things without cramming stuff into whatever space I can find.

Decluttered the closet for 15 minutes. Filled one kitchen garbage bag with stained clothes that I don't wear, and another bag with clothes that are fine, but I don't wear them, so they'll go to my next-cube-neighbor at work, who is my size and is looking forward to seeing if any of it will suit her. The remainders will go to cupcakes and muffintops.

Did all 5 of the FlyLady games things, and the best part was when there was a task I didn't have to do, because it was done already.