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No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service!Dear Friends:As we have been focusing on a different habit for each month this year, we have been reconditioning our brains to incorporate each new habit into our lives. This month our new habit is Getting dressed to shoes. I know this can sound kind of strange I mean after all we were trained to get dressed everyday and to wear shoes from the time we could walk. We know we are supposed to put on our clothes and shoes and we know that to function in 99 % of our lives we have to wear them ( I leave that one percent for bathing and those that sleep au natural). You see the signs on most entrance doors to stores " No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" . I saw this sign on the doors of a convenience store the other day and it made me think of our new habit. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service. Wow! That sign before always used to make me smile, in my mind (or in my life) I would never go to a store without my shirt on (LOL) or without my shoes on! But, thinking about that sign makes me think of why getting dressed to shoes is such a vital component of the FLyLady system. As Flylady has told us many, many times getting dressed to shoes tells your brain that you are ready to work. This means coming out of the sweats, the bathrobes and the pajamas to getting yourself ready to "seize the day" by getting dressed in clothes, doing your hair/makeup and lacing up those shoes. There are many of you that work outside the home that can't even fathom not getting dressed the minute your feet hit the floor and of course putting on your shoes because you have some place that you have to be quickly in the morning. Getting dressed to shoes also applies to when you come home from work. For those of you that work outside the home you do your morning routine and then do your missions and zone work in the evenings. When you come home from work and change from your work clothes to hang around the house clothes you need to make sure that you put on something that does not tell your brain to curl up on the couch and go to sleep. Have a cute and comfortable pair of pants and top to put on with a pair of lace up shoes. You will still be comfortable but not so much that your brain thinks that it is couch potato time. Once you have completed any house things to do, dinner and evening routines. Then change into your comfy evening clothes that tell your brain to relax! This will really help your mindset when coming home from work with so much yet to do in your home. Think about the sign again "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service" when we are not dressed to shoes we are pretty much unable to give any service to our homes and families because we are not ready. Getting dressed to shoes takes our brain into the it's time to get moving zone instead of the I just want to go back to bed zone! Go to the home page of www.Flylady.net and scroll down to the green section titled Reinforcing Your Habits. Here you will find out how other FlyBabies are doing with their new habits. It is Anti-Procrastination day, for those of you that are reading this right now that are not dressed to shoes - walk away from the computer and apply the do it now principle! No more procrastinating!! Have a great day! Kelly [Home] [Join FlyLady] [Contact Us] [About FlyLady] [Privacy Statement] [Terms & Conditions] FlyLady.net "This is FlyLady's List that has grown by leaps and bounds..." Copyright 2001 - 2008 FlyLady and Company, Inc. 
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