Baby steps, day eighteen

[serene]

(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: Set a specific bed time and stick to it.



Day Eighteen: Did you know that we have Eleven Commandments? Read them today. You may want to print these out or write them in your Control Journal.

It's not that I disagree with the "commandments," but they're an example of why I feel more at home on UfYH. So, I don't know, sappy's not quite the word...

Comments

[dancingsinging]

You know, sometimes I kind of love Flylady's sappiness. Like, it's so over the top but she's so sincere about it--it helps me give permission to myself to indulge my own sappiness. Like, to own the part of me that really does want to do the damn dishes so that my family feels loved and cared for. I find it nice to not be defining the edge of sappiness, you know?

But UfYH looks to be awesome, too. I don't really have time to go through it in detail, but I will probably do so a bit at a time.

[serene]

Absolutely, and that's kinda what I tell people. The sappiness can be too much for me sometimes, but it really does feed my truth, which is that it gives me joy to "bless" my family with my housework, even if I wouldn't put it in quite those words. (But I'm happy to define the edge of what feels too sappy for ME.)