Baby steps, day twenty-one

[serene]

Three weeks, and we are company-ready at almost all times. This is big for me. Now I hope we (not I, we) can keep this up after I go to work. I figure I'll be here less to clean, but I'll also be here less to mess up.



(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: Read the Eleven Commandments.
Day Nineteen: Read http://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-19/
Day Twenty: Include laundry in your morning and evening routines.



Day Twenty-one: Here is something else on our website. Each day (Monday-Friday) we put up an Ask FlyLady Question, and FlyLady answers it. You can read this week’s questions at the Ask FlyLady page.

Meh. Fine. A lot of her website is basically testimonials and ads for her products. I mostly just ignore those parts.

So anyway, moving on. It's a high-pain day, but it's also the last day of my summer furlough (two unpaid months off from work), so I feel motivated to get things put away (laundry) and ready for tomorrow (clothes for work, lunch packed, etc.) May as well get to it.

If you're doing some decluttering and unfucking and stuff, how is it going for you?

Comments

[eeyore_grrl]

I'm staying on top of filling and emptying and filling the dishwasher. Ian is too and sometimes Eli helps. We have very little counter space and I get annoyed and start my day annoyed if I have to try to make breakfast and lunch with a pile of dishes in my way. So, I've made the goal of doing it whenever it needs to be done instead of waiting on anyone else. My doing this also spurred him to do it more.

[metaphortunate]

I'm not, but I really admire that you are! I would like to. It's just that I have, like, a spare hour a day, and there are other things I want to do more.

[wild_irises]

I am not really decluttering or unfucking, badly as it is needed (especially in the non-public parts of the house, i.e., our two bedrooms). But I am keeping up with a fair amount of Stuff, including house Stuff, and this morning I made actual strides on filing (because I was looking for -- and found! -- a missing check). So I'm feeling semi-hopeful.