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Hi FlyLady,

I have flown, off and on for many years and each time I fell off the wagon, per say, I retained a little bit more of your way. I don’t call it a system but rather a way of life, motivated by your love for your neighbor.

I didn’t always view it that way though.

My biggest problem was that I direguarded your guidance on perfectionism and used your ‘techniques’ as a starting point to fuel my own perfectionism. It wasn’t until a had, what southerners kindly refer to as a “come apart” that I finally began to let go of the perfectionism and get what you were talking about.

We have a large family, homeschool and family business. Our stresses and responsibilities have not changed but I have. For the first time in my adult life, I am relaxed and learning to enjoy life.

Implementing your advice led to a welcome challenge, what to do,  how live and feel when the CHAOS moved out. I am still learning and was recently led to read a book called, Leisure, the Basis of Culture. As I read it, I see that the forces that drive Americans to live as if the only real life is one of perpetual motion, joyless and strained, run deep. I can’t help but think as I read, the flylady has this covered.

I and my family thank you so much.

Peaceful and contented in FL

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Hello FlyLady,

I only recently found you — someone in a Facebook group I’m part of shared a link to your site, and I decided to check it out. I’m so glad I did! I will admit, I am *really bad* at following directions, so I don’t often succeed in doing the day’s flight plan. But your message of “you can do anything for 15 minutes” has really stuck with me! Even if I do nothing else, I make sure to set a timer for 25 minutes and FLY through some cleaning and decluttering every day. I told my husband about you and the 15 minute cleaning sprint idea; he immediately said, “Okay, set a timer, and let’s get to work.” He actually kept cleaning after the 15 minutes were over because we were so close to having the kitchen back together.

We’re both pretty messy people, and neither of us were really taught how to create cleaning routines. And now with a baby, we have even more mess and more company! My husband isn’t the sort of person who usually sees something that needs to be done and just does it — his threshold for mess is higher than mine — but he willingly helps out if I ask. Recently (I’ve only been getting your emails for a week or two), he’s started taking more initiative! Last night, he got rid of some junk that was getting in the way of the washing machine and drier without my prompting. And if he sees me doing something that we decided was “his” chore, he tells me to put it down and do something else, and he hops right up and gets to work.

I don’t know if you’ve talked about this on your website, but before I found out about you, my husband and I had talked about having designated chores. I felt like the majority of the housework and parenting was falling on me, and I was being treated as “project manager” of the house — which is unfair to both of us. I told him that instead of me asking him to do something every day, I would like him to pick one chore, any chore, and that would now be his job at home. He could then pick whichever task he hated the least, and he could take ownership of it. We’re both still working on building these habits for our designated chores, but already it feels like we’re making progress on our CHAOTIC house and building up our relationship together.

Many thanks from FL!

What are you waiting for? Procrastination hurts you!

We have everything you need to keep your home shining! Sometimes we need a little motivation. Our efficient tools give us a jump start! They make a tough job fun. If you make it fun; it will get done!

We are going through our CHAOS to Clean Book this Month! Get yours now!

Purple Rag sale for only $8.95 while we have them!

It has your favorite tools! Got Old Cleaning Tools? Time to Upgrade with The Best! FlyLady’s Back to Basics Pack! Declutter the old to make room for the new!