Smart Habit Saturday

How did everyone do with their habits this week? If you are new and you want to take charge of your life by developing positive habits then feel free to join us. Thank you Kara for our fun new banner and thanks to everyone who joined in! I didn't see anyone volunteer to bring snacks so I'm doing them again this week but someone had better sign up for next week or I'm going to have to start calling on people!

SMART Habit Saturday is all about making one small change in your life at a time. Pick one daily habit that you want to start, post about it (please link back to The Lazy Organizer) and then leave your *link here so that we can all check up on your progress and give encouragement! Next week you can post an update and a new SMART Habit or just keep working on this week’s habit for 21 days. Don’t forget it takes 21 days to make a new habit so you’re not off the hook at the end of one week. Keep working on it!

Last week I picked cleaning the toilet every day before I shower as my new SMART Daily habit. I did ok but I wasn’t perfect. I cleaned it the first day and then the second day I forgot so I posted this on the shower door:


From then on I did really well and one day I think I even cleaned it twice because I showered in the morning and again after my evening workout! Then I forgot again yesterday. Apparently my friendly little reminder doesn’t work if I don’t notice it. I need something in neon! I did learn this week that I like having a spotlessly clean toilet, especially with the Potty Monkey that hangs around here. I’m going to keep working on this over the next couple weeks while I begin a new habit.

After all your hard work this week you deserve to take a break and enjoy this tasty Bruschetta that I brought for everyone to try. Let me know how you like it!

It is so difficult to pick just one habit to work on because there are so many areas of my life that need improvement but if I try to do it all at once I am sure to fail. This week my new habit is going to be Prayer which has been hit and miss for me lately. My goal is to have personal prayer every morning and night and family prayer once a day. This is something I really need in my life so I can't keep putting it off. I have to make room for it now!

I’m going to start keeping track of my habits in my planner so I can look back and see how I’ve done. I’ll write a T on the days that I clean the toilet and P for prayer three times a day.

I’m as scared to commit to daily prayer as I was to commit to cleaning the potty last week. I survived didn’t I? I’ll survive this week too. I don’t know why making changes is such a challenging thing for most of us but change we must so let’s have a great new week!

*Important - Please link to your individual SMART Habit post instead of your home page or else my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder will have to spend time fixing the links. Here is how you link to an individual post if you’ve never done it before: Right click on the date at the bottom of the post you want to link to (or the post title depending on where you blog) click “Copy Shortcut” and then paste into Mr. Linky.