Time for YOU: Week Three

This week has been a great one. It was fun preparing for Valentine's Day and finding fun ways of showing love for my family.  This is a quick reminder of where we have been focusing this week, and check out the weekly video to see what we are working on this next week.  Every fourth week we will reevaluate and focus and review a little more before we move on to new goals.  It gives you a chance to really see what is working and time to reflect on where you have been. 

Here's our review for week three:


1.) Exercise: Focus on Intensity
2.) Nutrition: Replace unhealthy fats
3.) Knowledge: Ch. 3 of companion guide - also Make annual checkup with your doctor if it's been a while
4.)Emotion: Evaluate Self- Talk
5.)Home: Continue 15 minutes of De-cluttering
6.) Spirit: Daily Personal and Family Scriptures Study

My 15 minute De-cluttering Mission!

This week I've focused on decluttering for 15minutes a day.  I got so into it, I decluttered 15 minutes for 3 times a day.  I started with my kitchen and it's gone from there. I can make dinners quickly, and find food in the cupboards to snack and make meals with. IT HAS BEEN FREEING!  I've followed flylady and I think after these 2 1/2 years of being in my new house, it hit.   I've been holding onto everything, because I thought if I got the house clean and organized, I'd have to move again. I've moved every 2 years, or so.  Well, I was not going to move again....can you feel the stubborn in my voice?  All I did was make my life harder and take time from my family.  

I love to walk into my kitchen!  It is really the heart of my home. 

The RESULTS: I've got my every kitchen cabinet, besides the china (which I will use these two weeks and see how often I use them.), and my desk is next.  I threw one black garbage bag a day and 3 on Friday.  My house didn't look that dirty.  I can pick up the rooms in 5 minutes with a room rescue.  27 fling boogies end up being 35 + fling boogies.  If this sounds unfamiliar, go check out www.flylady.net.

I am on my way to my desk in the kitchen.  These are the steps I go through.

1.) Decide what room and space is Most Important Right Now for your families functions.
2.) Got three baskets out, one for trash, one for give away, one for keep. I used a small handled basket for those things that need to go to another room, or space.
3.)15 minutes in that space, or area - Set the timer
4.) DO I LOVE IT? DO I USE IT? CAN IT BLESS SOMEONE ELSE?
5.) Take the garbage out, take the give away to the car, and take the basket of things that belong to other rooms and put them AWAY.
6.)Put those things you love back in their place and smile and give yourself a pat on the back!

This is what I do.  It feels great and I'm well on my way.  I just keep remembering that someone else can be blessed by my excess and the things that I don't love anymore.  Garbage is garbage, so I know not to share that with someone else by donating unusable and broken things.

I continue on my journey, motivated and feeling so much joy at night when I think of all that is changing in my life. 

Time for YOU: Week Two

We're Staying Connected!

So we reached the end of week two.  I hope you have all enjoyed this process. It has been so rewarding and motivational to me. I find myself able to accomplish more, think better, and feel an accountability for my personal growth. I know so little and you complete your own puzzle, but I appreciate you joining me and forming part of mine.  It is bringing  joy to my journey.  Here is our week two in review.  Go back and "check off" those things you've accomplished.  We need a day to reflect back on what worked and what didn't in our week.  Remember, these are not in order of importance, just how I decided to put them in list order.

1.) Exercise: Take picture, weigh, and measure - weigh only once a week, same time, usually in the morning

2.) Nutrition: Clean our your environment - throw out the junk on your cupboards and pantries

3.) Knowledge: Fill in Chapter 3 of Dr. A's companion guide - Read a book on habits - even if you are not following with Dr. A's book, make sure you are reading something, even little articles, this is why I send you something each week if you don't have a book.  Look for my emails mid week. This week was about Vitamin D. (drwayneandersen.com)

4.) Emotion: Set 3 attainable goals for your 3 months - use feeling and emotion and imagine what it would be like to achieve them and how you would feel


5.) Home:De-cluttering for 15 minutes a day - Remember! You CAN'T ORGANIZE CLUTTER.  Make your environment healthier with one 15 minute session a day. (www.flylady.net)

6.) Spirit:Continue Daily Personal and Family Prayer - Focus with a purpose and be specific and just stay connected with our Heavenly Father (Did You Think to Pray? - Download)

Time For You: Week One

If you are coming across this blog, you are either following us in our TIME FOR YOU group or happened upon the blog.  I shared in another post what this was about, but I want each of you to remember that these are broad goals in 6 areas of our lives.  Take them one at a time, two at a time, or all at once.  It's just about making a process of habits, because our habits create success.

Here are our weekly goals in 6 areas: 

1.)Exercise: Make a weekly plan and put in on your calendar. Choose 3,5, or 6 day plan.

2.) Nutrition: Watch your portions. Remember your balanced plate of carbs, protein, and veggies and fruits.

3.) Knowledge: Dr. Anderson's "Habit's of Health" chapter 1-2 and companion guide chapter one.

4.)Emotion: Watch what you say to yourself this week. Keep track in your journal.

5.)Home: Create Monthly Habit of Shining Your Sink.  See www.flylady.net

6.)Spirit: Daily Family and Personal Prayer (from 7 vital signs)

You're Doing IT!

I choose the best in 2010!