Babysteps, Day 11-3/11/09 DONE

FlyLady:
Check your Morning Routine in your Control Journal

Check your Before Bed Routine in your Control Journal

Keep the sticky notes up to help remind you to look at your Control Journal. Can you believe that you have been FLYing for 12 days? I am so proud of you! BabySteps will get you there.

You have your basic routine started and these are what you do for now. Do not try to do too much too fast; you will just crash and burn. Continue to take BabySteps to build your Control Journals. Do not allow your perfectionism to take over. We are building our routines and our Control Journals one habit at a time.

Today I want you to delete from your inbox all the emails from FlyLady. Now don’t cringe. They will all come back around and I write something new every day.



Cherylann:
Delete FL emails: DONE...I've been doing this daily :)
AM:
dressed to shoes: DONE
2 minutes reminders: DONE
posted reminders: DONE
negative voices: NONE
hotspots: DONE
5 minute room rescue: DONE
Decluttering 15 mins: DONE (been doing this since 1/1/09...whoo!!!)
PM:
shiny sink: DONE
pick out clothes: DONE
hot spots: DONE

Babysteps, Day 10-3/10/09

FlyLady:
Morning Routine

- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes
- 5 Minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house) set your timer and go!

Before Bed Routine

- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

We have already been using our timers for 2 minutes and now 5 minutes. Today we are going to learn the power of just 15 minutes. You can do anything for 15 minutes. This is all about getting started and giving ourselves permission to stop when the timer goes off. You cannot restart the timer either. This is not a race to finish in 15 minutes either! The timer helps to keep us focused on what we are doing.

Now 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 till the timer goes off.

Cherylann:
AM:
dressed to shoes: DONE
2 minutes reminders: DONE
posted reminders: DONE
negative voices: NONE
hotspots: DONE
5 minute room rescue: DONE
Decluttering 15 mins: DONE (been doing this since 1/1/09...whoo!!!)
PM:
shiny sink: DONE
pick out clothes: DONE
hot spots: DONE

Babysteps, Day 9-3/9/09 DONE

Here is what we are already doing; Look in your Control Journal; leave the sticky notes up to help remind you. It takes us 28 days to develop a new habit. These are just BabySteps on our way to a new way of living.

Morning Routine

- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine

- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Today we are going to learn how to declutter our homes a few minutes at a time with some fun tools that I know you have been wondering about from the reminders you have been reading in our emails. Making it fun will get the job done!

FlyLady Declutter

Add a 5 minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.

Cherylann:
AM:
dressed to shoes: DONE
2 minutes reminders: DONE
posted reminders: DONE
negative voices: NONE
hotspots: DONE
5 minute room rescue: DONE
PM:
shiny sink: DONE
pick out clothes: DONE
hot spots: DONE

Babysteps, Day 8-3/8/09 DONE

FlyLady:
Here you are; you have been FLYing for a whole week. I am so proud of you. Lets review your new habits. I am going to break them down into what you do each morning and what you do each evening.

Morning Routine

- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine

- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Over the last week we have introduced you to our reminders and the basis of our routines. As you establish these habits it will become easy to add another habit for you to practice.

Today I want you to find an old three ring binder and just put some paper in it. Then at the top of one page write Morning Routine and on the top of another page write Before Bed Routine all in pencil. This is a working document; do not allow your perfectionism to interfere with the process. Now you can write your simple routines on each page.

Cherylann:
binder with paper and routines: DONE

AM:
dressed to shoes: DONE
2 minutes reminders: DONE
posted reminders: DONE
negative voices: NONE
hotspots: DONE

PM:
shiny sink: DONE
pick out clothes: DONE
hot spots: DONE

Babysteps, Day 7--3/7/09 DONE

- Getting Dressed to lace up shoes
- Keeping our sink shining
- Reading 2 minutes of Reminders
- Looking at our posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Recognizing the negative voices; change them and FLY!
- Put out your Hot Spot for 2 minutes; just pick one.

Today we are going to add a new habit to our before bed routine. Tonight before you hop in bed; I want you to pick out what clothes you are going to wear tomorrow. You can lay them on a chair, on a shelf or hook in the bathroom or on a hanger on your closet door knob.


Cherylann:
dressed to shoes: DONE
shiny sink: DONE
2 minutes reminders: DONE
posted reminders: DONE
negative voices: NONE
pick out clothes: DONE
hotspots: DONE

Decluttering Days 69-75 (3/10-3/16)

Sorry I am behind on my posting again :( But, in my defense, I have been working hard. I have been decluttering kids' clothes (as I bring out the spring clothes and slowly put away the winter clothes).

I have freecycled about 20 bags of clothes, and tossed about 10 bags of clothes.

I have also been getting rid of toys that aren't played with anymore. Probably about 10 bags of those gone. I have also been scanning my pics, so that I have them in case something happens to the actual picture.

Decluttering Days 65-68 (3/6-3/9)

I have been decluttering my shed for the past 4 days. I have filled 4 truckloads full of trash (my dh really loves me for making him go to the dump daily, lol). The truck is full again, just waiting for him to get off work...

I honestly have not even really been sorting things....I've mainly been just tossing. I think I may have save 4 bins worth of stuff out of maybe 50 or so, so far.