today, my kids are back in school.
we are reluctantly jumping back into the routine.
it's a new year.
it's a new month.
it's a new week.
it's a new day.
it's a good time for me to talk about
although she has never stepped inside my front door,
flylady helps me clean my house.
more specifically, she helps me overcome inertia.
my working definition of inertia is:
a room {car, purse, closet}
that is a mess
will remain a mess
unless acted upon by some force.
flylady helps me find some force.
{sink: before force .............................. sink: after force}
i've been subscribing {for free!} to flylady's emails for many, many years. my good friend, kirsten, introduced me to her when i was pregnant with ned. i was suffering from all-day-long morning sickness. it seemed like a bad time to try a new system, but i followed along out of curiosity. {low and behold, the timing could not have been better.}
flylady told me that i could do anything
for 15 minutes
and then pour myself some tea
& put my feet up.
she gave me specific permission to do just that.
with 15 little minutes,
i discovered that i could
inch my way toward a cleaner house.
{maybe not clean, but cleaner than it was 15 minutes ago!}
i have tested her 15-minute theory countless times.
here are my results:
15 minutes of doing
something
{yes, so do-able}
has a consistently better result
than 15 minutes of doing
nothing.
in 15 minutes, stuff gets done.
in 15 minutes, things get cleaner.
in 15 minutes, life becomes less chaotic.
amazing.
another revelation:
the more often i clean,
the less often
i have to clean something really dirty.
{yes, the "clean" seems to stick.}
flylady makes a very interesting observation about perfectionism.
in a nutshell:
perfection is impossible &
striving for it will make you unhappy.
"perfect" always finds a flaw.
here is where i will tell you that i do the flylady system
in my own VERY IMPERFECT, HAPHAZARD way
and it still works wonders.
i have found that "good enough"
is really good enough.
good enough means more balance.
good enough means fewer extremes.
flylady's goal is this:
for you to have a reasonably clean home
and a feeling of peace
that spreads throughout your life.
to see her "habit of the month": shining your sink!
i would be over-the-moon if you left a comment
telling me what YOU did for 15 minutes.
♥
