Hi Karen About those Daily/Weekly/monthly, etc., lists. When I first did mine on paper, which in itself took me ages LOL, I started using them straight away but I cheated. You see there was no way I was going to keep doing them if I threw myself in at the deep end and did it all on the days it was supposed to. So I started small and did what I could and gradually as I got accustomed and got sorted in the house I did more.
Take the vacuuming, Ok now I vacuum the whole carpet but when I first started out I couldn't always get to see the whole carpet let alone vacuum it. It would of taken me all day to put away, sort, declutter, etc the stuff on the floor before I could vacuum. I decided from the outset that although my lists were perfect, neither my house or me where, so I would do my best in the time allowed and call it 'learning a new habit' and not beat myself up because I couldn't do some of the things I wanted to perfectly. Proper housework done regularly was new to me, its was like learning to drive a car in a way, there was so much to think about and I got tired so quickly LOL. As I got better at the housework and did more things from my lists I got to a stage where I needed to alter some of my lists. I was flipping a mattress as a bi annual task on the Monday then Stripping the bed the following day to wash the sheets. In practice it was obvious but when I sat down originally to write my perfect lists I obviously couldn't see it. So don't set your daily, weekly, etc tasks in stone, allow some flexibility and don't be afraid to change them when you start using them. When I wrote mine my first thought was I'd never get it all done in a day which is another reason I started of slow, but I found the more often I used the lists the fast I got and because I was also spending time decluttering and organising it was less work. I hope this makes sense, let me know how you get on. My lists are on the website in the essays, they have changed since I wrote the essay, it wasn't that they didn't work for me I just found another way that also worked and in some cases deleted tasks altogether because I either didn't need to do it anymore or I delegated. Louise -----Original Message----- From: don1fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:16 PM So for this weekend I want to take down the Christmas decorations, give the house a general clean and then produce a list of dailies, weeklies etc. that I can work through. I still feel a bit daunted by this and if anyone has any tips on how to stick to the lists and make them reasonable I'd love to hear them. Karen *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
