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Baby steps, day twenty-nine
It's silly how excited I am to have a weekend free of plans to do anything except working on the last few areas of fuckedness in my home. My desk. My dresser/closet. The disgusting bathroom. The food-storage-container cabinet. The refrigerator.
(I'm not sure I'll get to it, but the storeroom could use decluttering, too, but at least it's all neat in there, because James keeps it so. We're thinking of moving next year during my furlough, though, and that will be easier if we go through all the boxes of stored stuff and get rid of what we don't want to move.)
So. Onward!
(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: Read the Ask FlyLady page
Day Twenty-two: Learn how to build your own control journal in 15 steps.
Day Twenty-three: Make a new page in your Control Journal for your Afternoon Routine.
Day Twenty-four: One of the things that make our home always ready for company is the fact that our main bathroom is clean. Add the Swish and Swipe to your Morning Routine.
Day Twenty-five: Read FlyLady’s personal testimonial.
Day Twenty-six: Look at the bottom of any e-mail you’ve received from the FlyLady BigTent group. Read the first sentence and incorporate it into FLYing!
Day Twenty-seven: What’s for dinner tonight?
Day Twenty-eight: As part of your routines, remind yourself to eat good food, drink your water, and get your rest.
Day Twenty-nine: You have worked very hard this past month. Hopefully you have become familiar with our “FLY Washing” e-mail system and you are seeing some progress in your home. It took FlyLady nine months of building her routines one habit at a time to get her home running on automatic pilot. Please do not beat yourself up over this. Anything you do today is better than it used to be! Celebrate each accomplishment and enjoy the process. Before you know it you will be having more time for the things that you love to do.
Right now, go to the Taking Care of You page and find the Weekly Pamper Mission. Read it, then think about when you are going to do it. You may have to put it on your calendar to really make it happen. Schedule yourself some “you” time — you deserve it!
This week's "Mission" is to use vinegar as a hair rinse. Well, that was easy. :-)
The past couple days, we've been playing around with Magic Erasers (well, generic versions of it) and wow, for some stuff, they really are amazing. Our floors are dark, so I don't know if it'll photograph well, but James cleaned ONE square of our old-style linoleum with one and it's so dramatic. Now I guess we'll have to clean the OTHER 749 squares. Le Sigh.
Decluttering will happen today. So will photos. But first, my morning routines and my breakfast. A girl's gotta have her priorities.
(I'm not sure I'll get to it, but the storeroom could use decluttering, too, but at least it's all neat in there, because James keeps it so. We're thinking of moving next year during my furlough, though, and that will be easier if we go through all the boxes of stored stuff and get rid of what we don't want to move.)
So. Onward!
(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: Read the Ask FlyLady page
Day Twenty-two: Learn how to build your own control journal in 15 steps.
Day Twenty-three: Make a new page in your Control Journal for your Afternoon Routine.
Day Twenty-four: One of the things that make our home always ready for company is the fact that our main bathroom is clean. Add the Swish and Swipe to your Morning Routine.
Day Twenty-five: Read FlyLady’s personal testimonial.
Day Twenty-six: Look at the bottom of any e-mail you’ve received from the FlyLady BigTent group. Read the first sentence and incorporate it into FLYing!
Day Twenty-seven: What’s for dinner tonight?
Day Twenty-eight: As part of your routines, remind yourself to eat good food, drink your water, and get your rest.
Day Twenty-nine: You have worked very hard this past month. Hopefully you have become familiar with our “FLY Washing” e-mail system and you are seeing some progress in your home. It took FlyLady nine months of building her routines one habit at a time to get her home running on automatic pilot. Please do not beat yourself up over this. Anything you do today is better than it used to be! Celebrate each accomplishment and enjoy the process. Before you know it you will be having more time for the things that you love to do.
Right now, go to the Taking Care of You page and find the Weekly Pamper Mission. Read it, then think about when you are going to do it. You may have to put it on your calendar to really make it happen. Schedule yourself some “you” time — you deserve it!
This week's "Mission" is to use vinegar as a hair rinse. Well, that was easy. :-)
The past couple days, we've been playing around with Magic Erasers (well, generic versions of it) and wow, for some stuff, they really are amazing. Our floors are dark, so I don't know if it'll photograph well, but James cleaned ONE square of our old-style linoleum with one and it's so dramatic. Now I guess we'll have to clean the OTHER 749 squares. Le Sigh.
Decluttering will happen today. So will photos. But first, my morning routines and my breakfast. A girl's gotta have her priorities.