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FLYing Habits - Part 2
Have you picked a new habit to practice for the month of
March?
FlyLady asked for you to send in your new habits and here they are!!
- Taking my vitamins every morning - I am terrible about forgetting them and I know this is very important.
- Each time I leave my office I'll take something from the "out" box and put
it away. Then I won't have a hot spot that needs 15 minutes, or lose things
in there that belong in the kitchen, my purse or the car.
- Keeping my kitchen table free of clutter.
- Having the tendency to be on the computer at night before bed I don't get enough sleep. The New Habit to cultivate: Going to bed at a reasonable hour!!
SW in TX
- Dear Flylady and Crew,
For my new habit, I am going to work on eating more
fresh vegetables...at least one serving at lunch and
at least two servings at dinner. Now, I realize this
isn't going to de-clutter my home making each room
look more streamline but it will be a step towards
taking care of me, and since I don't run "Mom's Cafe"
(I've finally learned to lovingly say "no, I will not
make you something different for dinner since you
don't care for ______.") my family will have to eat
more vegies too.
After all, if we don't make changes to better our
health we won't be able to FLY to THRIVE in 2005!
Flybaby T in Campobello, SC
- Shining my sink is the perfect basic habit for me to work on in February... Hopefully the 28 days will give me the 27 times to make it really MY habit... I've been reading my FlyLady e-mails and hints for months but have not kept a good habit going so I am gonna' use this month to start fresh with a shiny sink,
Thanks for all you do,
Not yet FLYing in Massachusetts
- Dear Fly Crew,
Thank you for all of your supportive e-mails. I feel my life - and that of my families improving over time. Yesterday, we had company, and it took only 2 hours to get the house ready. That's an all-time record here! It will get better as I declutter the place, bit by bit.
I began my new habit for February today, a couple of days ahead of schedule (for a change!).
Two years ago, I bought a treadmill, but it took until today to decide that it's time to earn a return on that investment. I started out with high hopes of walking three miles, but after tiring in only 20 minutes, thought it better to take a slow and steady approach. I lasted 30 minutes today, but plan slowly to increase my time, speed and incline. My feet are aching, but I feel incredibly proud of this very small accomplishment.
I'd love to hear of the new habits other Flybabies are starting. Heaven knows, I need all the ideas I can get!
Thank you so much for your wonderful organization. It really is heaven sent!
Yours truly,
A FlyBaby in Maryland
- Hi, FlyCrew/FlyLady!
I've been FLYing since before the NewYear, and it is having a good positive effect on my life. I am a newlywed (25 october 2003), and my husband travels a lot. It used to drive him to distraction when he'd come home from a business trip to a cluttered, awful house. Because he usually comes home on fridays, I have tailored your recommendations to better fit our schedule. I do my home blessing on friday mornings, so that it is freshly hoovered & dusted, decluttered, so he can come home and RELAX. :)
He's been very good about following my rule that the sink must be clean and shiny before we retire for the night. The last one of us in the kitchen before bed takes care of that. :)
I've also started making a running grocery list on a magnetic pad on the fridge. It's been a great help.
Anyway, my new habit I'm going to try to develop is I guess sort of selfish, but I'm sorry to say I'm fairly lax about taking care of my skin, beyond cleansing. My new habit is to make sure that I apply my sunscreen moisturiser in the morning, and my nighttime moisturiser before bed. A more beneficial habit to the household, is that I will not do the weekly shop without a list, and without scanning the cupboards and fridge to make sure I'm not duplicating or shorting anything.
Laundry loads: I do about 3 to 4 loads a week, five if we've gone through our towels, as I wash those separately from everything else to avoid linting it all up. I do at least two loads of darks, one load of white (we don't wear much light, mostly BLACK clothes in this goth girls' household!), and one load with sheets. It's just the two of us, for now. We are trying to conceive, and, if we're ever successful, I'm aware that the amount of laundry will likely increase exponentially!
Thanks SO MUCH for being there! I have turned two friends on to your website, and it's working for them, too!
-a FLYbaby in Alexandria, VA.
- I have felt overwhelmed with the overload and time pressures at work. I've decided to stop looking at the enormity of the undone work and adapt my attitude.
My new habit will be 15 minutes at the end of the workday to wrap up and make note of my accomplishments for the day, however small, and make a to do list for the next day.
:-) flying at home and in the office, but never perfectly anywhere
- I'm going to limit my showers to five minutes -- I've been known to spend
half an hour in there!
- Exercise -- I've started parking my car 3 blocks away from the post
office instead of one, and WALKING around downtown. I plan to start
walking into town from home once the weather gets better -- there's a
large hill between my house and town, no sidewalks, and it's covered
with ice. I don't care to repeat the event of 2 years ago, when I
slipped on the ice and broke my wrist. I can increase the distance
around town in babysteps, on reasonably ice-free sidewalks.
Flybaby in PA
- I’m going to try napping! Most days I run out of steam mid-evening, just when my teenagers and husband often need me most. Gosh, DH is sometimes just getting home from a very long day at the office and I’m the one who’s pooped out. I’m going to try to take a short (20-30 minutes) nap before my kids come home from school. This won’t be easy because I’m usually still full of energy at that point. Thanks for reminding us that rest is important. I’m going to give it my best effort for 28 days!
A St. Louis SAHM Flybaby
- Drink 8 glasses of water a day, EVERY DAY!
- My new habit I am going to work on is to read scriptures for at least 15
minutes every day.
- Dear Flylady,
My new habit is riding my brand new bicycle! We recently purchased one for my daughter and I would use hers occassionally. Now I have my very own. This may not be exciting to some people but 10 years ago I was diagnosed with Cancer while pregnant with my son. I was also diagnosed with a disease called Sarcoidosis. Well, after my surgery and with the arrival of my son, I had a very difficult time getting back into shape. It wasn't until 2002 that we discovered that sarcoidosis actually was affecting my muscles. Too make a long story short, we recently moved to Arizona, and I began to feel better. I now have energy to exercise. I feel so free! Riding my bike with the wind and fresh air. Some days I feel like it will be alomost more than I can bare but I am riding at least 2 miles 3 x's a week. My goal is to be able to gradually add more days and more miles. I feel as if I am truely getting my life back. It has been 10 long years and I know I deserve it and I am happy just FLYING as a ride and know I am doing something great to help me thrive in 2005!
- My new habit for February is to try using a Control Journal. For now, I'm just starting with the Morning routine and the Before Bed routine exactly as prescribed on the web page, but already I want to alter both routines to include taking medications and supplements.
I've been TRYING to fly since last August. I unsubscribed in early December and resubscribed a week or two ago. I've been having trouble getting my Morning and Before Bed routines off the ground. I thought if I just put them at the beginning of my journal I'd see them, but I don't. So now I'm going to try FlyLady's way with the Control Journal. I don't have a binder yet - just the 2 pages back-to-back in a sheet protector!
So far, the only thing I've been able to get to take off is getting my shoes on and making the bed every day. When I started last summer, hubby really got into shining the sink, but he didn't keep it up more than a week, and I never got into it. I hope to get that re-started, and with ME doing it rather than HIM. He's overworked enough as it is.
He's been doing the laundry for about 26 years, and I'd LIKE to take that over from him to relieve him of the load, but it's been hard going. The passage from the kitchen to the stairs going to the basement is TINY - and I am not! So I guess laundry is another habit I'd like to get started in February. And EXERCISE!! Cardio and weightlifting both! I have everything I need - actually, I have TOO MUCH because I have EXCUSES, too!
I'd better get on it - February is a short month!
FlyBaby in Northern VA
- This may sound silly but - I have a Chinese Crested hairless dog and he needs a weekly bath. Well, sometimes that hasn't happened on a timely basis so new on my control journal schedule is bathe Zachary on Monday! Thanks for all you do for everyone!!
- The "NEW" habit I am going to work on in February is blessing my heart 15 minutes at a time. I used to be really good at this then got sick so need to reestablish that habit.
thanks for all you and your crew do
- My new habit is stretching every morning – I used to stretch but haven’t for years and now I’m so tight. This is really bad for you and contributes to other issues, like back problems, injuries, etc. My goal is to start to workout regularly, and my stretching habit will be my first step!
Flybaby in Chicago
- Mine isn't so much a new habit, but sprucing up an old one. It's doing one
thing at a time and finishing the job every time. After reading a book, put
it back on the shelf. After eating put the dishes in the dishwasher. After
finishing a pot of coffe empty the grounds and rinse the pot. After napping
on the couch (yummmmmmmm), put the pillows back in their places and fold the
quilt. If I'm done with it, put it back in its home. If it doesn't have a
home, find one.
When I practice this habit my whole life is more orderly, not just my home.
- Dear flylady,
We'll my new habit is I have been making sure my pantry is the way I want it like Leeanne says I have rearranged my kitchen in the order that is comfortable and even when I know
what zone are what you guys are going to do for the day I have been doing one more job ahead of time but only for fifteen minutes. I also have been teaching my oldest about
bedtime routine were she is to clean and do a hot spot in her room, and lay out all her clothes for the next day. You have taught me so much, since I got rid of my clutter I have
had more time to relax and enjoy my family. I also have made a recipe journal were I keep nothing but your recipes and others in order from dividing it up to main dishes, crock pots,
and chicken and soups. I have been a flybabie for seven months now and now I got my mom started!!!
Thanks for everything,
Flybabie Caldwell, TX
- have decided that my February habit is to clean (wipe, etc) every time I do a refrigerator boogie, which is always the night before I go shopping with my food list.
- In the morning, showering and self care...to the shoes being done BEFORE anything else.
This is going to be tough for me, because i love waking up to a coffee. I just have to push thru the shower and think of that coffee coming and soon. Hopefully, it will be a habit in 3 weeks!
- For February I am going to work on not nagging my husband to do things and keep working on not sweating the small stuff.
- Check on and care for my house plants each day.
- I recently cleared off my dresses putting back only the few things I love. I am going to keep it cleared, not using it for a temporary place to set papers. (File it...Not pile it)
- The New Habit I have chosen to pursue in my Home: Follow my New Morning Routine
(after I get it written down).
I've had trouble getting this down for some reason. But with the Lord's help, I'm going to figure it out and get myself in gear!
Bound and Determined,
FlyBaby in Central Florida!
- My new habit for February will be to add exercise to my regular routine.
I've bought a whole bunch of DVDs so that weather, getting up late, not being able to work out when the VCR is in the bedroom and hubby is asleep, not having anyone to take care of the baby, etc. are no longer excuses that get in the way of my success. I told a bunch of my friends that I'm committing to it for February so that they'll keep reminding me, and I'm letting my husband know how important this is to me.
I WILL get moving in February!
Flying in NC
- Entering all financial transactions in my gizmo that syncs to MS Money
and enables a good look at where my money goes. Now that I figured
out how to use the thing, and have a little wallet that holds the
gizmo PDA and the only credit card I am allowing myself to use, I find
I miss very few items to see where my money goes and how close or far
off from my budget and ummmm Savings? plan I am.
And, paying my bills within a day of receiving them. Or at least
three days before they are due. Avoiding penalty fees is the goal
here.
- Hi Flylady Crew!
I don’t know if this qualifies as a “new” habit or not; it’s more a restart of an old one. I used to go to the gym religiously three times a week, but let the habit slide. Tomorrow I am joining a different gym, one where my closest friend works out. We will be working out together three times a week. Here’s to “new old habits!” LOL
Fluttering in CO
- My new habit for February is to clear off the counter to the side of my sink. For January it was to clean the sink. In March it will be to clear off the other side of my counter. Babysteps, babysteps.
Thanks for all you do!
3year old flybaby in MI
- Stand up straight and smile. You and I will look so much better if we just Stand stright and smile. Try it and you will see.
- Dear Flylady and Flycrew,
My commitment to a new habit is to do a voice warm up every day. I am an
actress and have a lot of unstructured time on my hands and seemed to get
sidetracked with so many things; things that just aren't that important to
me in the greater scheme of life, but I seem to keep doing then anyway. I
don't really know why, maybe I am scared, scared of what will happen if I
actually do the things that I know deep down inside I really need to be
doing to feel like the authentic person I am on the inside.
I think I am scared of failing, scared of being ridiculed, but I also
realised recently that I am scared of succeeding. I realised that somewhere
along the way I learnt a stinking thinking way of thinking that if I'm
successful I will somehow be so different that nobody will like me any more,
or be able to relate to me anymore etc. But now I know that that isn't true,
but I'm still having trouble getting off my franny and doing what I say I
need to do. Do I not need to do it anymore? Do I really want it anyway? I
ask myself these questions and I just don't have the answers. Why do I
sidetrack myself, even when I know better? Why do I feel so paralysed?
I am working on getting on with it anyway, so I'm going to set my timer for
15 minutes and just go for it, do some voice work for 15 minutes every day.
I'm hoping it will help to motivate me.
Thank you so much to the whole flyteam. You truly are an inspiration.
Flybaby in Sydney, Australia
- Even though I have had this "habit" listed on my Before Bed Routine for months, it is the one thing I always forget... taking my calcium supplement. I have those chocolate chewy things and they taste good so there's no hesitation there, and I even have them in my bedside table. I just forget! So I will put a shocking pink post-it on my hand lotion (also in my bedside table) to remind myself to take the calcium, because it's important! I'm a prime candidate for osteoporosis and have been diagnosed with osteopenia (one step before osteoporosis), so I should not be forgetting this! Thank you for making me think about a habit I really need to enforce.
Fluttering madly in Santa Barbara
- my new habit for february is to scoop the kitty litter as part of my evening routine - rather than waiting until it is an emergancy task.
Fluttering in Oregon
- Okay, that last email inspired me. I’m going to put my timer to more use. I KNOW it works when I do use it; sometimes I just think, oh, I don’t need it, but it just isn’t the same without it. So I’m going to recommit to using it!
Thanks for all you do!
Love,
One of your imperfect flybabies (but that’s okay!)
- Dear FLY Crew,
This month my new habit is to put a load of a laundry on every morning
before work, I go back to work next week (I am a teacher) and have revised
my morning rountine for this year. DH new Habit is to vacuum the carpet
twice a week as we just had new carpet laid today, looks fantastic!
Fly baby - Australia
- Although I have set up a morning and evening routine, I often do not follow them. For the month of February, I want to establish the habit of my morning and evening routines.
BJ in NJ
- Hi FlyCrew:
I've been Flying since Oct. 2003 -- but somehow have never managed to get
down he habit of setting out clothes for myself the evening before. I've
gotten good at doing that for my kids -- but since I'm a SAHM and usually go
to the gym in the mornings after the kids leave for school, the decision of
what **I** am going to wear, just doesn't seem to be urgent to figure out in
the evening....
BUT, I do feel better if I have something nice picked out -- so that's the
habit I'm going to work on in February.
Thanks for all you do!!!
- Dear Fly Lady and Crew,
I am retired and last year began a book of poetry. This last month I got bogged down, but thanks to you, my house has less CHAOS than before and I need to get back to writing - which I can do because I now have a cleared off desk top! Each day I do a little better with the Baby Steps and Blessings. Now I shall bless myself even more with my daily writing. Thank you for the Flying lessons and daily reminders. Yes - I DO know where my shoes are !!
Flying in Pasadena,
- My new habit for Feb. will be to straighten 1 thing in the garage each day. I'll try to make time before I leave for exercise class each morning but for sure before I go to work each afternoon. I'm looking forward to seeing the result in one month.
- Doing my cardio exercises at least 20 minutes every day!
- I am going to wash my face every night before going to
bed. (And apply a little moisturizer; it's
low-humidity wintertime).
- I am going to start walking on the treadmill for 15 minutes a day...
- I am developing the habit Do It Now, Girl, or DING as one of my sister Flybabies mentioned in a testimonial. I have DING in my control journals at home and at the office and displayed on my dresser mirror with my Flylady cling.
Today, I got tired of listening to my toilet drip, so I put in a new flapper. Took less than 15 minutes, no more water waste and I feel great that I did it by myself!
Houston FlyBaby
- I am going to eat fruit with my breakfast.
- Hi Fly Lady and Crew!
Thanks for all the encouragement, support and help!
My new habit will be putting junk mail into the recycling bin outside of the house instead of bringing it into the house setting it down where it turns into a pile that clutters up my life and that important things like bills get lost in - LOL!!!
- For the coming month, and from then on, I will look after my finances at least weekly if not more often. I have picked Wed as my budget night and will
plan nothing else for that night so that there will be no excuse for not doing it.
Keeping laundry under control, was do able, this will take more effort.
Wish me luck.
Flying in Ontario Canada
- Boy, do you have perfect timing on this one!
Hubby and I are trying to save money and eat very healthy things. (Yes, we use Menu Mailer and both Saving dinner books!) Lunch is the hard part. My husband had very few good salad places within walking distance of his workplace. He was fairly content with one place, and spent an average of $5 per day. Then, he started finding dirt and small pebbles in his salads. He spoke with the manager who said they were having a hard time getting the salad greens properly cleaned. He quit going there. (That place ended up closing one week later!)
I’ve been making him wonderful salads every evening after dinner. He has a special lunchbox that holds everything perfectly – including a little sugar-free dessert.
For fun, I’ve been marking the calendar with a little “5” on each day that he carries his lunch instead of eating out. At the end of the month, we see how much money we’ve saved. It comes out to about $80 per month!
I was still making poor lunchtime food choices. I’m a picky eater and find it hard to try new foods. I selected my finest crystal bowl that happens to have a tight fitting lid, and now I make a salad for myself as I am making my husband’s lunch! It takes no extra time at all!
That was our new habit for the month of January. Now it has become second nature. Ahh, the power of routines!
We have a wonderful idea for February that we are both very excited to start! My husband made an incredible chicken and vegetable stir fry for dinner tonight. He really has the knack!
While I was helping him chop up some veggies (and I was tossing generous amounts of veggies into our lunch containers for tomorrow) I told him that we should just completely empty out all of the vegetables in the fridge EVERY week, the day before we do our grocery shopping! We will feast on stir fry for Saturday night dinners, and then restock with completely fresh produce the next day! No more wasted produce and an incredible, ever-changing weekly dinner date to look forward to all week!
Who knew that routines could be so yummy and cost so very little?
Thank you for helping us to learn good habits, one baby step at a time!
- Flylady,
Thank you so much for being my cheerleader. I am a fairly new flybaby (almost two months) and have really struggled keeping the routines going. I know they work and love how I feel and how my family responds when I do them. My challenge has been keeping it going. I had the goals (my problem right there) posted but was so overwhelmed. You have given me the courage to truly take babysteps.
I am going to work on shining my sink every night. And I am starting tonight. So I need to go!
Learning to FLY in Dewey,
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