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Routines: Good and bad examples

Rosie March 4, 2010 3

Creating your own routines is a great way to get in the habit of completing the regular tasks you do throughout the day. Everybody has some sort of routine, but it is not always a good one.  A few years ago I had a really crappy morning routine. It involved waking up late, rummaging through a pile of washing, ironing something from the pile, brushing my teeth and running to the bus-stop without any breakfast.  Then there was that one bus driver who would flash his lights at me.  I had to change my schedule to catch a different bus.

That was not a good routine.

Here are some examples of good routines.

  • Flylady’s daily and weekly routines
  • Schedules and Routines at Household Management 101 – with great daily and weekly examples
  • Leo Babauta’s morning and evening routine
  • Simple Mom’s morning routine and  weekly routine
  • Magic Minimum at Organized Home
  • The Daily 7 at Totally Together Journal
  • Establishing Routines at Unclutterer
  • S.H.E. ROUTINES keeping you sane at The Shebang
  • Strong Bad’s morning routine (perhaps that is not a good example either)

If you put your routines into the HomeRoutines app (or write them down on paper in a home management notebook!) it has such a powerful effect.  Firstly, it is a reminder of the tasks that you have chosen to be most important.  And secondly, it’s a really nice feeling when you complete a task and you mark it as complete.  That’s why you get to give yourself a gold star when you complete a task with HomeRoutines.

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The app also lets you give yourself credit for the regular, routine jobs that do not register in your brain somehow (which leads to the horrible “Did I lock the house?” feeling because you’ve been running on autopilot)

That autopilot effect sometimes makes us feel like we haven’t done anything at all, all day – especially for stay-at-home parents who have little children running in circles around them all day.  So HomeRoutines has a daily Accomplishments screen: it compiles everything you’ve done, from your ToDo list and your Routines and Focus Zone work.

I read something good today on the Zen Family Habits blog. In an article about assessing your work, particularly as a SAHM, it ends with some positive advice:

Finally, celebrate. Celebrate your victories no matter how small. So you haven’t accomplished all you’ve set out to do. So what? Maybe you’ve finished some small yet significant task. Celebrate!

HomeRoutines Accomplishments screen lets you review everything you got done today

Filed under: Features and Tagged: iphone, routines
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