Okay, couldn’t I simply say the three words?  Sure but how much fun would that be?  I created Dance Till You FLY! mw System (c) 2014 that I will be sharing with you in the coming months.

How did I come up with this name?  I woke up one morning and that was what was in my head.  I thought about it and then after my first, well second cup of coffee I realized that’s what we all do when it comes to taking care of ourselves and our home.  Nothing is straight forward when developing habits and routines.  It takes practice to find your own groove, your own song.  All this happens from trial and error.  F.L.Y means to me: First Love Yourself (others come next)  I use the concept of what the airlines say is best to do if in a situation that the oxygen masks come down.  They advise to always put yours on first before your child.  The thing is if you put your child’s mask on first, those seconds you do could cause you to pass out and your child would be getting oxygen but wouldn’t have the skills as you are passed out to know to get your mask on.  Instead you would have a freaked out child because Mommy won’t wake up.  That is why it is important to learn to First Love Yourself.  In order to get there you will keep dancing until you get there.

Who doesn’t feel good after they finished dancing?  It is a way to generate feel good endorphins.  That is one thing we need in our tool box.  So you will hear dance step names for things I do daily and my weekly habits I practice.  Note:  This is another thing I have learned to say.  Instead of telling myself I HAVE TO do the dishes now, I say I will practice doing the dishes.  Face it, housework is never really done.  The sooner I was able to accept that, the better I have learned to feel.

Many times we will try different dance steps. Yes, we can still get frustrated.  Why?  Because we don’t keep track of what works or doesn’t work.  This is where a notebook comes in handy.  Just jot it down as you are searching.  There are plenty of ways to take care of yourself and your home.  All you have to do is google clutter, cleaning, organizing or home and you will come up with all kinds of sites.  If you keep going to organizing sites over and over again to find the perfect system you are going to fail.  There is no perfect system out there.  There are simply suggestions.  Anyone can make lists of things to do.  The trick is implementing them on a daily basis.  Make your notebook your friend.

It is more important to me for you to find ‘Your Way’ to do things.  For myself I have learned that fun words make everything easier.  I just made up a theme of dancing.  The majority of us are going to put some music on and dance anyway.  Why not have a theme for all the things we do each day?

Because of what I learned yesterday, I am having to make adjustments.  One thing I have learned is that I cannot go ‘Full Throttle’ all of the time and ‘Pacing’ myself is one of the core basics of my system.

Yesterday, I spent 45 minutes on April’s event.  What I didn’t factor in was the time it took to stop and take photos, upload them and put watermarks on.  You see this is what so many of us don’t factor in and then we don’t feel good about our accomplishments for the day.  I also didn’t factor in the time it took me to write and then publish the blog.  I love to write.  Part of the responsibility to my followers is that I edit my work so it will make sense to you.  That takes time.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy doing it and love to share what I have learned along the way.  I just didn’t factor in the time.  I got to bed much later than I usually do.  What I used to do is continue to go that same pace and through journaling I have learned I can do it 3 days in a row.  By the 4th day I fall into a heap.  Anyone else experience this?  The thing is on the 4th day, you still have to take care of yourself and your home.  There is no autopilot.

That said, my task that I did was give my sink a good cleaning.  The area I focused on was the faucet.  Where I live we have well water and it is very hard on the plumbing.  If I don’t do a maintenance cleaning every few months, I will be buying another faucet.

Today I used vinegar.  I took the faucet filter off and soaked it in vinegar.  I sprayed non diluted vinegar on the handles and the base of the faucet.  I left it on while the screen and end of the faucet piece was soaking. The last thing I did was take a toothbrush to get anything that works its way into the edge of the outside sink.  I checked back after a couple of hours.  ( I let it soak as I was writing this blog)

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(NOTE: Parts of my home is the schoolhouse on the praire built in 1882.  When my town was established in 1887, they moved it to the current location conducting school for a few more years until it was purchased to become a home. The kitchen was added on first and later the bathroom and dining room.  All the kitchen cabinets on the west side were put in around 2005.  I purchased them used.)