Today is the 1st of the month and for many it is the time that one decides that they want to LOAD UP and start doing MORE.  What is so different about yesterday?  Oh, we said good bye to the month before, now in the past.  That is really about it.

So why do we do this to ourselves?  We are trying to make taking care of our homes as an EVENT.  It is not.  It is a daily PROCESS that we PRACTICE  trying to stay as CONSISTENT as we can so we don’t have MELT DOWNS.  We want to say good bye to CRISIS CLEANING that takes all the energy out of ourselves so there is no time for DAILY HABITS.

Instead, I invite you to EASE your way into the new month.  The FOUNDATION is our ‘Nine Habits Each Day Every Day’ that keeps our engines running smoothly.  We must first allot time in our day for these before we can deal with weekly habits on specific days. Then as a group we practice a monthly event on a specific subject related to FLYing.

NONE of this can be done without specific daily habits set in place.  I chose nine habits.  Three habits for each of the three routines we have in our day.  Make time for these so you and you home continue to function as you practice on weekly habits, zone work and monthly events and eventually your favorite hobby that has been put on hold because you are always cleaning.

I read an article that said our brains are only capable of remembering three to four things in the same moment.  The best example is our phone numbers.  We have a three number area code, three number prefix and finally a four number suffix.  Try to remember all ten numbers at once.  Do you think you can do it?  I can’t.

Years ago I worked in outside sales in communications.  I sold beepers or pagers.  I would go to my appointment that I set up with a business and when I introduced myself, the next thing they would do is tell the person I had the appointment with: “The Beeper Lady is here.”  I never will forget the time I was meeting with a top executive that was ready to hear my presentation.  He said, “Shall We Dance?”  That has always stayed with me and is why one morning I woke up and thought, “Dance Till You FLY!”  Like nemo, just keep swimming, well instead for me, just keep dancing.

When it was a sale and time to issue beepers out to the company, there had to be a phone number placed with it, just like cell phones today.  When you are in the business, it is automatic to know what the area code and prefix number is.  All I had to do is remember the last four numbers.  We stayed in the same area code and prefix until the numbers ran out.  Then we would move onto same area code different prefix that didn’t take long to learn because we knew we would be in that prefix until the suffix numbers ran out and that takes awhile.

Well that is all I am inviting you to do is three habits that overlap each other for each of the three routines we do in a day.  Isn’t it interesting how our days are broken down to three sections?  Is it by accident or did someone know that we could only remember three things at once and in the moment?  Listed above are the nine habits.  Instead of LOADING UP on yourself with things to do on a list a mile long, rededicate yourself to practicing the nine habits and know in your heart that these habits are necessary to do each day in order to move on to remembering weekly habits and then monthly events.  Just like a phone number, you have to remember the area code first, then the prefix, and finally the suffix.  It is a one, two, three steps to remember.  Kind of a like a CHA CHA CHA!
Dance Till You FLY!
Marilyn