After watching a mediocre episode of Alias last night, I told Andrew we really needed to get organized. After losing the laundry card, we talked about the importance of having a system.
How can he have a successful at-home business if our home was in chaos all the time? We needed to have a system for keeping our home clean, neat, and organized.
Now is a great time to start ingraining these habits because we don’t have to worry about weekly cleaning (we have housekeeping service with our NH apartment). We can concentrate on our routines for being neat and organized and add weekly cleaning in later. That way we won’t be trying to do everything at once. Baby steps, as FlyLady says.
Here’s a copy of the schedule
| | Andrew | Rebecca |
| 8-9:00 | Be with Arianna |
|
| 9-9:30 | Go for a jog |
Breakfast, Unload dishwasher |
| 9:30-11:30 | Andrew works on
real estate |
Be with Arianna |
| Noonish | Arianna naps |
Rebecca works |
| 4:30 | Be with Arianna |
Make dinner |
| 5:00 |
Eat dinner |
Eat dinner |
| 5:30 | Clean kitchen and Start dishwasher |
Declutter living room and bedrooms |
| 6-7:00 | Andrew works |
Be with Arianna |
| 7-8:15 | Get Arianna ready for bed |
Rebecca works |
| 8:15 | Andrew works |
Put Arianna to bed |
| 9-11:00 | Andrew sleeps |
Rebecca works on writing |
We will see how it goes. Obviously, it is for the days when Andrew is not working. We tried to arrange it so we each had 3 hours each day to work on our writing, business ideas and/or education.
It's strange having a bedtime, which I am currently breaking, but I obviously need one or I am a zombie the next day.
Andrew liked the idea and we came up with the schedule based on what we enjoyed doing and when. He said that William Pryor Letchworth had a very strict daily schedule and he was extremely wealthy.
Hey, you never know....
Rebecca