I was first introduced to Flylady about two years ago. I can't remember exactly where I found her. Somewhere on the internet while searching for something, anything to help me get a little more organized. That's when I found her. I think.
Anyway, I have sporadically at best followed her loving yet constant demands to FLY with her and her flycrew. I get emails daily from her and have become fairly proficient at deleting them without reading them. At the beginning of the year, in planning my new year's resolutions, I decided to start following her new monthly habit. I figured I could change/work on one thing a month, how hard can that be? Last month was shine your sink. I think it is safe to say that I am in the habit of keeping my sink clean and shiny. I have even gotten to the point where it really bugs me to have dirty dishes sitting in my sink. This has been working so well except for the weee bitty problem of our dishwasher springing a leak last week. My husband promises to have this fixed by the weekend. In the meantime a towel works well to soak up the water. My husband, the comedian that he is, when I made a comment about the dishwasher, reminded me that we do have dish soap. I laughed and told him I thought he was funny. He couldn't actually expect me to wash the dishes by hand. HA!
Anyway, getting back to why I originally started writing this post, yes there is a purpose. I was so successful last month in creating a new habit of keeping my sink clean and shiny, that I was anxiously awaiting February 1st to find out what my new habit would be for the next month. [[Drum roll please]] The new habit for February is to declutter for 15 minutes every day. This can be in any room, area, closet, space etc that I wish. What a concept! I accomplished this for today and actually found the top of my dresser in our bedroom. Something that has not been seen or heard of in some time. Why is it that it takes a funny lady who calls herself flylady to get me motivated to do something as simple as spending 15 minutes to clean off a surface in my home? Whatever works! I can hardly wait to see how clean and uncluttered my house looks by the end of February.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
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Way to go. I so need to do that 15 minutes a day thing. I'll do it too! My house will be so clean. ha ha. Hope your dishwasher is fixed soon.
It's funny how 15 minutes isn't that long during the day, but it can make such a big difference when I take the time to do it!
I've done a little Flylady in the past, but I got to the point that it was taking longer to read all her information than just clean my house. I like your idea of doing one new thing per month! :)
I'm still at the "delete all her e-mails" stage. Hopefully I'll grow soon.
Way to go! I'm good at de-cluttering, its the deep-down cleaning I sit and sigh about!
Your weather girl says it is -11 degrees there. Stay warm! BRRR
I finally turned her off, but after reading her stuff for years, I've decided it's good to have a zone to work on each week. It gives you a good place to start.
andrea, thanks! We'll do it together.
suzanne, I agree it does take longer to read it sometimes, maybe that is why I delete it most of the time.
carrotjello, if I can do it you can too! Just 15 minutes. :D
mary, it is warmer now, but not by much. I am the same with the big stuff too. It is a wonder my house isn't a disaster all the time!
millie, I like the zone thing too. We have taken that and applied it to our kids. They each have a zone of their own that they rotate through each week. It works great!
I'm at the same place as Carrot! Hee hee...
Decluttering feels soooo good! It's already a sporadic habit of mine. Ermm...can you have a sporadic habit? Is that an oxymoron?
Good luck!
I too, am a big flylady fan. I think she is great at breaking things down into easy to handle parts.
When I have a hard time getting motivated, I set a 15 minute timer. For whatever task it maybe, I can handle doing 15 minutes worth.
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