Happy Upcoming Friday everyone!
Don't forget to get your houses ready for the weekend so you can kick of your shoes and enjoy!
Friday's Essential Checklist:
Finish off any extra ironing and put it away,
Clear your hotspots,
Dry dust all screens, tops and sills,
Empty all the bins,
Swish & Swipe your toilets,
Hoover the main areas of traffic.
To give you a house as fresh as a daisy that you can really call your haven!
Have a great weekend!
Dear Inspirity,
I'm on that FlyLady yahoo group - but I've never really understood it? My inbox just gets full of emails?
Dear Overloaded,
Lol. FlyLady is like that! She sends you loads of emails everyday! I think FlyLady works best if you use a email program such as Microsoft outlook, where you can create “rules” for incoming mail.
My rules automatically delete all of Kelly’s zones, all of the Riley Challenge, all of the reminders to get dressed to shoes, do your morning routine, etc. When all these unwanted reminders get deleted, you have about 5-6 emails per day the testimonials and FlyLady’s musings are the essence.
Hope this helps.
Inspirity.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlyLadyMentors/message/48967
"Dear Friends,
This essay from my Sweet Darling should be repeated quite often.
At the Charlotte FLY Fest in 2005, Robert was a big hit with our members. He gave them a little insight into our guys' clutter. You have asked him to write an essay about it and he has. The only part you will miss the air guitar dance he did on stage that day. I still laugh at the thought of this.
You can read more from Robert, Tom and the rest of our guys on the www.HeyTom.net website. They answer your questions from a man's point of view every weekday. They have quite a following.They answer all types of questions!
FlyLady"
Read Robert's Essay of Men's Clutter
"Changing the world one gift at a time"Is There Life After Housework? By Don Aslett
On Page 48 of his great book, Don Aslett describes how we can train our children to pick up after themselves - leaving much less cleaning for YOU to do afterwards. He describes two school canteens - in one canteen the dinner ladies clear up in two hours, and the other they take 15 minutes!
Same amount of children... same area... same size of building... but what's the difference? The boss!
"Any lady who clears and cleans up after her husband or kids older than two years deserves the trash she lugs out." (paraphrased)
He provides two suggestions:
1) Refuse to pick up your husband's and children's messes. Insist that they clean it themselves.
2) Write down & display jobs to do.
I purchased a cheap A4 photo frame, and printed out three columns (one for each child) with their names at the top of each column. I put this paper inside the frame and use it as a chore list. I use white board markers which can be rubbed off with a wet cloth.
And for the husband... ask him sweetly to take out the trash - but for all of the big stuff - use your wish list ;)
by the Fascinating Woman
"Inspirity left a comment on "the key to being a domestic goddess" post she asked, "How do you delegate the cooking?" Well Inspirity, and anyone else curious, here is some information first on whom to delegate to and secondly on how to deal with the some common pitfalls.
"Why should I cook when you do it already?", "This is your thing why should I bother?" The response to a child is fairly simple, "You'll thank me for this one day." or "I just want to equip you with plenty of skills so when you turn eighteen you can feel confident about living on your own if you want."
[Psst: the same argument works for teaching children how to do the laundry, how to clean a toilet, how to iron their clothes, etcetera.]
But what about when the party involved is your husband? I have seen two tactics that work. Tactic No. 1 is to play up what he does well. Does he have an ethnic speciality? [My husband makes amazing Chinese food.] Ask him to make some of those dishes. Several other male friends are masters of the grill and their wives encourage them tobarbecue as often as possible. Other men really enjoy making bread, so find reasons for them to do so."
Read The Fascinating Woman's Guide to Delegating Cooking
FlyLady recommends you have a weekly home blessing hour in which you do all your main housework - and then you can have fun for the rest of the week.
Well, with 7 people living in Malik House, 3 kids and 3 bathrooms, it takes me more than 1 hour - so I give myself 2 hours!
I have a Monday & Friday Blessings List - you should make your own list of blessing that you need to do weekly aswell - unless you're Born Organised of course - in which case you will be wondering what I'm going on about!
FlyLady recommends making personal routines that work for you. If you find yourself making the same forgetful mistakes repeatedly, write things down as a reminder for next time.
From FlyLady's Website, Click here to read the full article.
Self Care has been described in the Surrendered Wife as a marriage-saving tool. We will only by the calm and centred souls that our husbands desire and warm to, if we are looked after, happy, relaxed and contented in ourselves.
Most women are so bogged down with housework, they haven't got a clue what they like to do, and have perhaps forgotten or never learnt how to have fun. What Laura Doyle suggests is that you make two lists:
And then, choose any three, from either list every day.
Make your own Self Care List & Journal here.
Here are some examples:
You will find yourself relaxed and peaceful - no longer on your last thread with a short fuse.
This article was inspired by M x
A Kitchen Weekly Planner is a great way of ensuring your on top of your housework, shopping lists, and top priorities (First Things First). It is also an excellent way of keeping track of having enough healthy food for lunch, and if your children are having balanced lunches at school.
This article was inspired by I.D x
Here's a treasure right out of The Surrendered Wife and The Secret; Express your desires and watch them come true...
Here's what to do:
The trick here is to express you desires - to make them known - without having any expectation of who is going to meet them, and how they will be met.
Most probably, if your dh sees this innocent looking list which comes with no nags attached, he may well be tempted to browse on the net for a new restaurant, or even pick up that screwdriver when he has a few moments to spare!
This article was inspired by K.A.S x
You can make your own Life Grid with your own boxes by printing a blank grid (see below):
Or click here for a Blank 8-Box Life GridOr click here for a Blank 9-Box Life Grid
2) Quadrant of Quality & Personal Leadership,
3) Quadrant of Deception,
4) Quadrant of Waste.
We all have a choice as to how we allocate our time between these quadrants. The trick is to manage your time effectively by:
1) Manage the Quadrant of Necessity as best you can.
2) Focus on the Quadrant of Quality and Personal Leadership for it makes the Quadrant of Necessity more manageable and helps you achieve your goals faster.
3) Be Careful of the Quadrant of Deception because activities in this quadrant may appear urgent when in fact they are not. Too much time here will slow your progress towards reaching your goals.
4) Avoid the Quadrant of Waste as much as possible. Too much time here and you will not achieve your goals at all. "
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