Flying to declutter!

I love FLYing!

I have been a big fan of FlyLady for a while now. I have been using her habit building skills, aka FLYing, for almost 3 years. Some days are easier then others but it is a learning process.. it's a matter of learning how to not do something you have been doing most of your life and replacing it with a new habit.

Are you able to determine what is a good and bad habit in your daily life? They are typically simple things that you don't even realize you do. Things that later make you stand there and wonder how you got so much put on your plate and how you got so far behind in your house work. Luckily Flylady has put together a list of simple things that help people get organized, de-cluttered, and ultimately less stressed.

Because I believe so strongly in FlyLady and FLYing, I have decided to do a facebook group to share everything that I have learned from FlyLady's website and my experiances!

I am going through the FlyLady Getting Start, BabySteps, and Control Journal! This is the best way that I have found to get into FLYing and stick with it! Once we get through the BabySteps, Putting together everything for the Control Journal will be extremely simple.

Before we go any further I want tell you the number 1 tip that I have had to learn. YOU WILL NEVER CATCH UP. If you don't get around to doing something, do it another time. Don't stress yourself out by trying to squeeze it in somewhere else. If you allot for  15 minutes to clean a room, and you don't finish, try again another day. It doesn't have to be perfect, no matter what your OCD tries telling you.

Now, DAY 1, Shine your sink!

This is in both the "Getting Started" and the "Baby Steps" for good reason. The sink is typically in the center of your kitchen. It is generally the first area of your home that people critique when they visit (tell me you don't do it!). Did you know that when your sink is full of dishes, old food, and soap scum your kitchen generally looks messy as a whole? How about this, did you know that if your sink is free of dishes, clean, and shining your messy kitchen generally looks clean?

 

Doing your first "shining" will take a little more time. Once this is done once, you wont really have to do it again unless you start putting this off. Once it is cleaned, then it will be VERY simple to keep up with it. CLICK HERE for simple instruction on how to do your first "SHINING".  Once you get your Sink all nice and pretty, you have one simple task... KEEP IT THIS WAY! You eat, do the dishes right then, don't let them sit in your sink. Take pride in your work, even if no one else seems to care. Every time you go into your kitchen, shine your sink.


Now that you have day 1 done, do what you normally do, only remember to keep that sink shining! We'll be adding more to our new habits as we go along!


Danielle M. Montoya

References
http://www.flylady.org