IN-USE ITEMS
The secret to success is making very small, yet very consistent changes.
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Contents of New Ideas for Each Day
1. New Message of the Day - No More IN-USE ITEMS!
2. New Habit of the Day
3. New Family Reminder of the Day
4. New Quote of the Day
5. Did you know
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1. New Message of the Day - No More IN-USE Items!
Put things back where they belong even when you will be using them again soon.
• If we get a cook book out to look for a recipe we have not yet found, we tend to leave it out because it is now an IN-USE item.
• If we are working on addressing cards, we leave out the address book, cards, stamp, and pen because these items have become a special group. They have become IN-USE items.
• Garden tools which are likely to be used daily are kept separate from other tools because they are IN-USE tools.
This sort of thing can go on ad infinitum. In the mind of the Messie, anything which is being used at the time or may be used in the future earns the right to be left out, separate from the groupings where they are ordinarily kept. This is not a good idea. Failure to return things to their proper groupings causes much of the clutter found in homes of active and imaginative Messies who have many projects going at one time.
Keep items that are alike together. Etch the adage BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER into your active brain. Determine to change your behavior. From now on, put the book in use back with its flock of other books on the shelf. Put tools back with its flock the tool box, shed, or shelf before moving on. You will be surprised at how eliminating the IN-USE items from sitting around waiting to be revisited will clear your house of clutter.
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2. New Habit of the Day - Commit for just this one day.
Be sure you return things to the proper storage place ON A TIMELY BASIS (that means really quick.)
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3. New Family Reminder of the Day - Pick one of these reminders or make one of your own to share with your family each day.
In our family, we push our chairs up to the table when we leave.
In our family, we use one bath towel for a week.
In our family, we change our bed sheets every two weeks.
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4. New Quote of the Day
All glory comes from daring to begin.
-Eugene F. Ware
Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent, and we all get the same 24 hours a day.
Don Schula NFL coach
Start to practice good thoughts about yourself for only one minute a day, and realize that what you practice is what you become. One minute to your health.
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Did You Know?
Change from the inside out. Work on how you think and feel! As you change, the house changes. These three tell you how.
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MESSIES ANONYMOUS SLOGAN
Please memorize this slogan and post it on your wall.
The secret to success is making very small, yet very consistent,
changes.
Or to make it short, "Baby steps, baby steps" in the right direction.
"Never underestimate the inevitability of gradualness."
Anonymous
Bravery is not a lack of fear. It's proceeding in spite of it.
-Anonymous
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