My daily “routine” started when I woke up after hitting the snooze button a couple of times then realizing I was now running late for work which then created a new layer of agitated morning energy dictating the next hour. And there you have it. My morning routine pre-mom days.  Routine to me meant no fun, too many rules and no free time! What I had yet to learn was this: Life can be easy and breezy once I created and lived on a schedule. Having no daily routine to speak of let ”life” take over with plenty of chaos. I sat in comfort with running late and allowed procrastination in with ease.

 When I became a mom, out of necessity I learned how to craft a meal and a sleep routine for my children. Some things went really well and not so well for many others. My personal life aside from motherhood was routine-less  (due in part to having young children who, at any given time, had a care-need arise.) 

 I honestly didn’t know how to; nor did I have any type of daily or weekly routine for life basics such as meals or laundry. I was always running to the grocery store and making due. Laundry was always needing to be done. As a result, I reacted instead of responding and was constantly looking for what I knew was a better way to navigate my life.

Gradually I  awakened to the fact that something was missing. Enter the slow adoption of a daily routine in my life. “Reaction to” was my status quo, “order” and “structure”… nice sounding buzz words with no real weight.

By chance, I one day heard about someone called “the FlyLady”  and on the importance of a daily cleaning and decluttering routine … and why creating a daily routine mattered in the big picture of life!

Curious and interested in what this meant, I went online to her site and began that day in following her baby steps daily routine. Her site is flylady.net