Smart Habit Saturday
Participate in SHS for 3 out of 4 weeks in May to be entered in a drawing for Speed Cleaning by Jeff Campbell and of course I will make you an Organizing Bag to put it in.. I love the book and I love his products at The Clean Team. If you want to be entered in the drawing, e-mail me the links to your entries when you're done with three of them. That makes it so much easier for me and I'm all about my life being easier! If you are new to SHS find out all about it here: Getting Started with SHS. Click here to read more SHS posts. Please don't forget to link back to this post so your readers can find out more about SHS.
Thank you all for not giving up on your habits! It takes hard work but even if you are only doing one habit a month then you are making serious changes in your life. The list is long of things I want to change but I know I can do it because I have about 50 more years to work on it!
My goal this month is to be in bed by 9:00 to read, asleep by 10:30 and up by 6:30. I failed miserably this week! I think I only got up before 7:00 twice. I knew this was going to be a difficult habit for me so I will be working on it for a long time.
Over the last two weeks of trying this out I have learned that the kids have to start getting ready for bed by 7:00. If they're in bed by 8:00 they can read for an hour and then lights out at nine when I go to bed. When we get home late from things like Scouts or when Daddy is home none of this happens and we end up with tired kids, a grumpy Mom and all around chaos.
It's a vicious cycle. I stay up too late so I'm tired the next day so I take a nap so I stay up too late. Tonight we're all going to bed early. It's 7:41 and the kids are all in bed! They have a 4-H activity at 9:00 in the morning. Victor (nine) has planned all week for everyone to go to bed at 7:00 so they can get up early and get their jobs done before we go. He was about ready to strangle his sisters (seven and two) for not cooperating with his plan but he has finally wrangled them both to bed!
Here are the rest of the habits I have been working on this year. Some of them are habits and some of them still need a lot of work but all of them have improved my life!
Getting to bed early - failing!
Crafts with kids - Working on it.
Using Crock Pot - Great
Paperwork, again, and again - failing
Have lunch ready by Noon - Good
Turn Off Computer during chores - Surprisingly I am doing this really well.
Become a Dresser, Playing games with my kids and reading my Church Magazine - Yay, I got my Conference Edition this week!
Kitchen and studio clutter free - Good
Clear Counters - Great
Clear Desk - Good
Review Planner - Habit
Daily Prayer - Habit
Clean Toilet - Good
*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 it into Mr. Linky.
Labels: Smart Habit Saturday
posted by The Lazy Organizer @ 5:36 PM
13 Comments
13 Comments:
Monthly goals, now there is an idea I like :) !! Maybe that will work better for me. And if you can go to bed early, then so can I.
Have a remarkable mother's day weekend!
I think monthly goals is a good idea too, that might work better for me so I don't feel like I've got too many things to work on at once. Good luck getting to bed earlier, I'm doing horrible at that and my bedtime is 11:30 lol!
Hey.. glad to know I'm not the only one who failed miserably this week with early bed/ early rise. I too realized children bed time needs to change. Although my habit didn't work this week, I learned a lot.. which will help in the future.
Thanks for your continued encouragement to help us improve.
Hope this week is successful.
Good habits are desperately needed here. :) I'm glad I found your site and the Smart Habit Saturdays!Thanks for doing this.
I won't sign the linky because I'm slacking big time over here.
I am just so impressed that your 9 year old is so focused. Kudos for wanting to strangle his sisters when they don't cooperate. LOL
I love it.
it's good to remember that even though we may not be where we want to be in our new habits, we are still making progress and improving our lives in some way. bed time seems to be the hardest to change but it will get easier especially if the kids get on board. keep working, you're doing better than you think and good luck!
Monthly habits sound good to me too. It seems to take about that long before a habit becomes a habit!
Thanks for starting this, it's really a great motivator. Good job on your habits so far and good luck on the rest.
We are working on bedtime stuff around here too! Our hardest nights are after Church on Wednesdays and Sundays. I am still trying to figure it all out. Good luck this week/month!
Bedtime was going to be my thing too this week, but I just can't seem to commit. Baby steps.
Ooo! I borrowed my mom's P-touch labeler and I have had a blast. I am labeling the cupboard shelves, the pantry, kids' closet shelves, any other ideas for me?
I'm skipping this week. Just wanted to let everyone know. Hopefully I'll be back soon. I surely don't want to miss out on the newest book this month in the drawing.
Hope everyone has a great week!
~Mercy~
I have been throwing off my entire schedule for a month now by failing at early bed/early rise. Here's to doing better this week.
I have not had much success so far... but I am rethinking things and I hope this week will be a fresh start.
Have a great week!
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