Comments on: Prioritizing Goals and Letting Some Go

By: Mid-Week Shout Outs! — The Bona Fide Life

Mid-Week Shout Outs! — The Bona Fide Life — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:50:11 +0000

[...] at Small Notebook, Rachel wrote about Prioritizing Goals and Letting Some Go. I really enjoy realizing I am human and not alone. It makes my [...]

By: Miechelle

Miechelle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:37:08 +0000

I have a 15 year old and a husband and work from home so should find organising a breeze but I still have to maintain my beloved list and run our house like a military camp if I want to get things, anything, done and complete. I have just those responsibilities and when I even consider what it must be like to have more than one child under the age of 5 I literally shudder. I remember my midwife telling me that one of the greatest issues I would have to face when giving birth was my inability to just let go and surrender - I suspect that that is a life issue for me and I think it is the whole meaning to having children. Children change the focus, they change the order of the things, they change the list. As I said in another post, when I finally realised that my daughter and my husband and my family and my friends needed to be top priority, I finally stopped struggling as hard as I used to. Miechelle´s last blog post..THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:18:39 +0000

I wanted to share what has been my navigation chart through my sea of to-dos: a routine. My routine is very short and simple, and it includes the essentials for maintaining a home. As long as I get these tasks done, I can choose to fill the remaining time in whatever tasks I deem most important. The routine was built over time. I have a daily routine and a weekly routine.
The daily routine (which is to be done before anything else):
Make bed
Reboot the laundry
Tidy the kitchen
Get dressed

The weekly routine:
Wednesday: Thoroughly clean kitchen. (Thursday is trash day.)
Thursday: Wash weekly linens & catch up if behind on laundry.
Friday: Scrub bathrooms and pay bills.

I find that the main problem areas of a home are the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry. The essentials of the routine keep these problem areas of the home livable. I choose to focus on different projects as I wish during the rest of the week. Projects can relate to organizing, decluttering, renovating, preparing, selling, or just having fun with the kids.

I hope this might be helpful. Flylady taught me the importance of having a routine. I just made sure it was simple and worked with the way my days and weeks flow.

By: The Simple Things Volume Four. | Simple. Organized. Life.

The Simple Things Volume Four. | Simple. Organized. Life. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:31:52 +0000

[...] Notebook has a great post up titled Prioritizing Goals and Letting Some Go. This is very important to living a simpler life. Share and [...]

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:10:49 +0000

Oh I really relate!!!
I feel so encouraged today.
Thanks for being a blessing!!!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:16:37 +0000

Thank you for that post! Rachel´s last blog post..DIY Deodorant. Yes, you read that right.

By: Marci@OvercomingBusy

Marci@OvercomingBusy — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:08:29 +0000

Thanks for being real. Many of us mom's have believed the lie that we all have to be perfect, supermoms and fit into this box. And if we don't, we are failures. So untrue!! There are seasons in life and each has different priorities and different looks about them. Thanks God! How boring would life be if it was all the same, all the time?!?! Marci@OvercomingBusy´s last blog post..Menu Plan Monday - June 15, 2009

By: jill

jill — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:47:37 +0000

Ah. Affirmation. Ever since Motherhood, I’ve had many days, which have turned into many season, where my mantra has been: Just get ONE thing done today. Just one. And we’ll call that day a success.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:47:35 +0000

Thanks for the thoughtful post, Rachel! What I love the most is recognizing that priorities change. So many women can get caught up in the look of perfection that their children are miserable and no one wants to walk on the perfectly vacuumed carpet!
In my own home the priority is to eliminate obvious messes, keep up on routine chores like laundry and dishes and then organize so I can be more efficient. There’s no rule book saying 10 minutes organizing my receipts is less important than cleaning out the fridge or resting my feet.
Thank you for taking away the feeling of guilt that we “should” be doing something meaningful and productive every minute of every day.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:46:53 +0000

One of the coolest things I've ever heard was someone asking the question: "what one thing would make you successful today?" Keeping a list of all things to do isn't a bad idea, then really honing in on the one thing that's important (not necessarily critical). Brad´s last blog post..All Aboard the Name Train