Here are some relevant blog posts I’ve come across this week. I usually post cool links straight to the HomeRoutines Facebook page when I find ’em, so Like us there to read them first!
On Routines and Schedules
- Bookend Your Day: The Power of Morning and Evening Routines at The Art of Manliness
- Imagine a string with a series of beads on it. The beads represent your goals, relationships, and priorities. Tip the string this way or that way, and the beads easily slide off and onto the floor. But tie a knot on each end of the string, and the beads stay put. Those knots are your morning and evening routines. They keep the priorities of your life from falling apart and thus help you progress and become a better man.
- Reassess your Schedules and Routines at Productivity Your Way
- … our daily routines and schedules have a huge impact on not just our productivity, but also our mood and relationships. Being over-committed, wasting time and misprioritizing all lead to stress and chaos.
- Cleaning: Is it Better to Create a Schedule or Not? at Simplify 101
- Scheduling tasks like cleaning can give you a tremendous sense of freedom…and even room for spontonaeity! What works for you? Do you prefer to have a cleaning schedule…or does your life work better with out one?
- Scheduling tasks like cleaning can give you a tremendous sense of freedom…and even room for spontonaeity! What works for you? Do you prefer to have a cleaning schedule…or does your life work better with out one?
- Housekeeping Schedules and Daily Home Management at Home Sanctuary
- Far and away, my most searched posts are the ones on setting up a housekeeping schedule. I imagine women stumbling across my easy system, and I can hear them saying, “FINALLY! A schedule that doesn’t make me feel like a failure before I even start!”
On Rocking your Timer
- When you don’t have time to get organized at Creative Organising
- Fifteen minutes of organizing in any home won’t get the job done forever.
But when you’re feeling overwhelmed by your clutter the goal isn’t to get the job done…it is to get the job started!
- Fifteen minutes of organizing in any home won’t get the job done forever.
- Stop Procrastinating and Dash Through Tasks with a Timer at LifeHacker
- Get a timer. Pick a task. OBLITERATE YOUR TASK
Kids’ Stuff
- Homework without Tears (I mean you, Mom!) at The Happiest Mom
- One place I’m working on this especially hard right now is establishing a new homework routine at our house.
- Leafy Crafts at Kids Craft Weekly
- This week, consider making the time to accompany the kids on a leisurely walk around your local area. Grab the hats, pack some drinks, choose a walking stick and get the kids to carry a basket or bag in which to keep any leaves that happen to take their fancy.
