Your list is here.  How you do it doesn’t matter.  Just do what you can each week!

This topic has probably been debated the most it seems.  I think when Flylady meant for it to be is to just spruce up your home, just the middles.  Then do Zone work for details.

But what if you are not completely decluttered?  What do you do?  Many of us have completely decluttered and then like myself a couple years ago I inherited a bedroom set that I would much rather have than a room full of clutter.  Put the bedroom set in the room where I keep stuff I have no other place for it so I have been working on this as I run the groups, do my own FLYing, and seasonally doing my Gardening.

Normally I have done my Weekly Home Blessing in a Day.  If I concentrate on it and depending on what has come into my home and if I didn’t take the same amount out, I am in trouble. It is something I have learned to stay on top of with exceptions to the rule.  I allow myself 2 hours with one break.  For me it is the floors that wear me out because of my fibromyalgia.

Now this summer I have been at crossroads with this habit.  I think I can do all of this in a day as afterall I don’t work.  Then I think I do.  It is just a different type of work that no money is exchanged like taking care of my yard and my gardening which has been an addition to flying.  What I mean by this is I spend lots of time on the computer answering questions and helping new members as I don’t want them to fall through the cracks.  I have such wonderful group members that have been with me from the beginning and help me out a great deal and I thank you so much.

Right now, my home has got to get ready for the tomatoes that will be coming into my house.  I have tomatoes in my fridge and cucumbers and there are so many tomatoes ripe on the vine that need to be picked and brought in.  It will have to be coordinated with my mom because she has my canner.

I wish I was more focused on this subject of Weekly Home Blessing.  Right now I have the Marilyn’s Way FLYing chart that Tomato Jones so graciously made for us.  The blessings are listed so I never have to worry about what the list is.

The point I am trying to drive at is there is no right or wrong way to do you Weekly Home Blessing!  The only requirement is that you keep trying until you can find a way that is going to work for you.

I wish it was as simple as adding up some numbers and they always equal the same total.  The problem it is not.  I have been flying since 2005 and my life has changed many times as well as my flying.  It wasn’t until I started getting dressed to shoes everyday that things changed again.

So how am I doing my Weekly Home Blessing?  This summer it has been more of breaking it down into days.  I may go back to my 2 Hour Blessing where I focus on Zone work when I can and there is always a 15 minute break built into it.

Have I really given you a straight answer as to how to do this?  I am sorry but I have not because I don’t think there is a straight answer.

What I will say is the Weekly Home Blessing is one of the more important habits that will help you create a foundation into FLYing.  When I started learning to live more by the week, FLYing seem to go better for me.  Some weeks were great and then some weeks not so good.  The POINT is by checking and making this a weekly habit that has many ways that it can be done is for you to do it and to always acknowledge the importance of the Weekly Home Blessing.  So if it didn’t go so well last week, then this week concentrate on it.  It is when the Weekly Home Blessing doesn’t go so well for 2 and especially 3 weeks in a row, it makes it hard on us and that’s when some of us give up.  I am asking you not to.  I personally will not allow myself to go beyond 2 weeks of not doing a Weekly Home Blessing.  That is where I have drawn the line.  I don’t want to go to week 3.  I have been there and it is no fun but I kept telling myself to jump back in and had the support of the group to keep going.

The moral of this blog is find a way to do your Weekly Blessing!  You owe it to yourself to continue to do trial and error and eventually like a few of our members just announced how they have each found “Their Way” for the Weekly Blessing to work for them and graciously shared them with you.  The thing is that their Weekly Blessing is so different from one another and YET they are getting it done!  Here is a BIG SHOUTOUT TO THEM!

Don’t feel bad if you haven’t quite gotten yours figured out that will work best for you.  I am not going to.  Instead I will continue with my own trial and error of the Weekly Home Blessing.

The MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do for yourself is each week “Do What You Can and Finally Love Yourself” for it!
Keep FLYing!
Marilyn

Here is the most updated weekly Flying for Marilyn’s Way with the inspiration from Flylady.  Visit her site www.flylady.net.  None of this would have been possible without her and I never forget it.  Thank you Flylady!