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Evaluating My Schedule
by Monica Resinger - Plantldy98@aol.com
Description: Tips for evaluating and organizing your daily schedule.
On the weekends, my kids are home from school and my
husband is off work, so naturally the house gets dirtier
faster. Usually we decide to go to antique or thrift stores,
on a drive or to the movies and this doesn't leave much time
for keeping the house up. This was causing me a lot of stress
which I desperately wanted to change for my and my family's sake.
I've always thought of myself as flexible and I could handle
looking at a dirty floor for a couple of days. Yes, I could
handle this. So I thought about this problem and figured out
what was really bothering me.
The problem was this: I can't stand being rushed, not having
clean laundry, or going anywhere if the house isn't picked up.
On the weekends I get up and go on the computer first thing in
the morning and don't get off it until three or four hours
later. This is necessary for me to run this newsletter, so it isn't an
option to take that off my list. By the time I get off the
computer it's 11:00 a.m. or 12:00 p.m. and the family is ready
to go, the house looks like a tornado went through it and I
haven't had my shower yet. This is when I get stressed, so
obviously, this problem needed some evaluation.
The first thing that came to mind is to pick up the house before
going to bed. This will be a major adjustment for me because I
tend to get real lazy after dinner, but I'm sure it will be
worth it. The next thought is that everyone will probably mess that
up the next morning, so the come back to that is to announce
that I'm not going anywhere if the house gets messed up, and if
it does, it better be picked up by the time it's time to go.
Now, on to my second problem -- no time to do laundry which
equals no clean laundry. My normal routine is to do one load
of laundry daily and that keeps up the laundry pretty well until
the weekend hits and I don't have time for it. I made one
minor change which has helped tremendously. Now, I still do
my daily load, but on Fridays I do all of it. This frees me
from having to do it all weekend.
With clean clothes in hand and a picked up house I am more
relaxed and can enjoy my weekends. The point of this article
is to help you to see that sometimes it takes
only an evaluation of what needs changing. If you
are having a problem, evaluate it and see if there's a better
way. Most likely you'll find one.
Monica Resinger is editor/founder of
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