If you are an impatient person, this blog won’t be for you.  With all of the gardening I did this past summer, I have learned much about patience and doing many things in babysteps.

Today I am working on some of the leaves.  Notice I say some.  If I looked to do this project all at once, I would be down for a week after.  That is how I did everything before I found Flylady. It was full blast or nothing at all.  Guess where it got me.  Sick.  Today I live with Fibromyalgia and therefore deal with pain in my muscles on a daily basis.  For years I used to tell people when I am on, I am on and when I am out of sorts, I am REALLY out of sorts.  Everything had to be so intense all of the time.

In 2005 I found Flylady.  She told me I could do babysteps and get things done.  She also told me I could do anything for 15 Minutes except whine.  Those two really stuck in my mind.  Most importantly she says you have to get rid of your clutter.

I stayed with Flylady in some form since I found her. I kept babystepping my way out of clutter and found a direct relationship as to how I felt by looking at the clutter I saw in my home.  Today I am not completely clutter free.  Let me tell you, flybabies I have come a long way!

Today I am not pain free.  I have just learned a different way to do things and that is why I named my blog The Flylady Way.  This was the first year in five years that I have had a vegetable garden.  I did it all in 15 minutes at a time.  I cleared the clutter out of my shed, my yard has taken shape, and feel very rich from what I learned this year.  There are so many tools and techniques and flying lessons that make so much sense.  I guess you can say I found Flylady just in time.  Not for others, but for me.

Flylady has revamped her website and I ask all of you to visit the new site by clicking on www.flylady.net  and now you can see how wonderful and useful this site can be to you if you are ready to get rid of your CHAOS.  You get rid of it in more ways than one!

If your yard if full of leaves and don’t know where to start, this is what I have learned and it has worked for me.

Turn your yard into five zones
Each corner of your yard is a zone.  The center is your 5th Zone.  Start with one corner/zone to clean up your leaves.  You can do this from left to right clockwise if you would like.  Try this doing each session for 15 minutes and make sure to take rest and water breaks.  This is what took me so long to learn.  To tell you the truth, I am still learning this and have to remind myself of this daily.

Today I was having so much fun I kept going.  I believe I stayed outside for longer than 15 minutes without breaks and I am feeling it.  If I would just take my own medicine

Keep Flying!
Marilyn