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the snow angel at the end LOL

I don't have apple products.

Thank you for the honesty and I pray that all goes well for y'all financially. Today is the first day of my "semi-retirement." WFH and reduced hours. Retirement is planned at the end of the year so it's a big transition for me. I want to get real with the FL system (changed up to accommodate health issues) on a daily basis and get to the point that I don't need a house cleaner by the end of 2025. (She just started in August so things are really backed up still.) Not getting everything done today but still recuperating from the final family holiday gathering on the weekend. This week is working my up to all the dailies, etc. Looking forward to your new videos! Take care and God bless.

A friend told me about FLYLADY in 2000. It completely changed my life. I know no how matter bad I let it get with my ADHD. FLYLADY always gets me back on track.

Hugs Terri! I downloaded the planner, love it! Thank you!

Thanks for this. I need the (gentle) push. It's been a frustrating year and in the last month or so I've let even the daily tasks fall by the wayside. You're in my prayers. The little feet ornament was precious. My favorite ornaments are the ones my adult children made when they were little.

I loved the lives but missed so many due to work.

I just discovered you today while trying to browsing for TFL content. I’m just rolling through your videos - I appreciate your prayers at the end. Happy New Year!

I enjoy your videos. Don't Quit. You're encouraging me. 😊

"Stepping into my iwn authority". I love that! 2o24 was rough. My hubby's beloved service dog got serviced by us with helping her up when she wanted to walk around and cleaning up countless messes and doing several loads of towels per day just from cleaning up after her. we buried her on Christmas day. While we are doing well emotionally and spiritually, I was so exhausted after she passed. I miss her dearly, but we have lots of goid memories of her, and now tge eb and flow of my days is pretty much dictated by ME, and my do lists are getting done; and zi'm able to take breaks when my body says I need onre. So; this year is going to be so much about honing in on my habits and taking more quality time for myself and my hubby. As for you, Terri, please don't apologize for focusing on what YOU needed to focus on. As important as you are to us, you and your fsmily come first for you. I pray for a break through in your financial situation. You are waaaaaayyyyy stronger than you give yourself credit for. May God fill you wth even more strength as you move forward ❤ Oh, another thing (listening to this video right now, so commenting when I hear thingas), I started losing weight 3 weeks ago as well. I've lost 6 lbs so far! This is stubbornnweight ghst just refused to bidge gor a long time. I have alot to lose, so I'm with you on this one ❤

Terri, I wanted to let you know I'm praying 🙏 for you today. Praying for divine intervention.

You are not alone. 2024 was filled with crisis after crisis in our home. We are trying this year to get back to a normal life that does not include driving 2 hours to a big hospital that is saving my husbands life. God is with all of us even when we can't feel him or our situation reflects him. Everything we go through is making us stronger and God is teaching us something. Hang in there and know I am praying for you and your family. Thanks for your honesty is so needed in such a fake world. God Bless.

Sure I am here

Got your planner. Love your daily focus on declutter

Praying for you

Yes she is amazing! I've been decluttering using her process for two weeks now and it's been absolutely freeing. Still have much to do but the improvement is already so visible.

I have to be honest, this video felt good. Like the old chats we had before things got crazy. Don't forget to grab the free planner to help you kick off your decluttering journey! todaywithterrik.kit.com/c54f6a8be0

For a quick pick up, Shark has a hand held little stick vac that is powerful. I no longer use a dust pan. My Shark hand held stick is small. Grab it off the charger and easily remove little pieces on carpet, crumbs on the couch or counter, or stuff after sweeping with a broom. I treasure mine. It is a huge time saver and mess remover. When done, hang over the garbage, push a button and it goes into the garbage. Very clean.

I LOVE the Norwex Enviro Cloth and polishing cloth. Zero lint. Lots of sparkle and no chemicals needed.

After 2 really bad years of rare cancer treatments & surgeries, I'm cancer free! I'm slowly establishing new routines in my recovery. It6s going to be a while, but I'm going to get back to taking care of my home. ❤

Unable to find the checklist of habit stacking. Only get an ad? Could you please check the link? Thanks.

The first thing I’d need to do for an effortlessly clean house is send my children to live elsewhere. Lololol

Awesome car!!

My house is so small, my office is in the bedroom

Sure miss you

Thank you for the print out! I hope you have a very happy new year filled with lots of blessings!

Oh I totally wish I could close off my bedroom. It would be so much less to clean. But unfortunately we live in an old mill house, and the bedrooms are pass through rooms. So we closed off one of the doors to the kids room so visitors cannot pass through there to get to the bathroom and kitchen. Unfortunately that leaves my room basically being a hallway and catch all space when you walk in the door. I'm trying to convince my husband that we should switch with the living room and open up the kids other door. Even though that would put our room having the front door in it, we could block it with a temporary partition. It's not like everyone doesn't see into our room immediately anyways. They just would not have to walk through it. Oh well. Sorry for the rant! I enjoy your tips. I'm slowly trying to work them in to my days. I have to write them down because I definitely will forget. I downloaded the flylady app because off you. I didn't use it much over the holidays with everyone home, but I did keep up with some of the weekly home blessing. Thanks for your videos!💖

Welcome back, Miss Terri! I missed you!

Another thought 😊 I'm assuming you have passed the time to send back your sweeper mop thingy, so if it's faulty then you couldn't send it back...but, an idea to lock the handle in place could be to use white plumbing tape (teflon or silicone tape) to created a 'thicker' pipe to stop it from collapsing from the pressure. It would mean you couldn't contract it to put it away anymore, but it could stop the frustration! 😊 You could use hot glue instead but the tape would look neater!

I was looking at the rubber broom thing and wondering if you'd be better off turning the head around? That way the 'edge' won't get in the way. That scraper edge can be easily used by turning the broom over when it's needed, perhaps? I don't have one, but i thought I'd share my observation! ❤

Hello. Thank you for your informative videos. How do you find the free fly lady plus app? When I go to the App Store, there is a charge for it? I have searched on “free” fly lady app and the only thing that comes up free is the fly lady messenger app. I appreciate any help you have.

Hello. Thank you for your informative videos. How do you get the free fly lady plus app? When I go to the App Store it says there is a charge for it. I searched on “free“ fly lady app and the only thing that comes up free is the fly lady messenger app.

Thank you for this video! I have just started trying to declutter my home and needed to hear your wonderful words of encouragement. I'm going to start praying as I clean!

Hi Terri, good evening! I hope you're doing well. I recently came across your amazing videos and content on TH-cam, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the beautiful things you're sharing with the world. If you don’t mind can we be friends, Your work is truly inspiring! 🌹🌹🌹

You have no idea how much your words encouraged me today. Thank you, and God bless you!

Thank you for this most perfect message , I needed this today as well as your beautiful prayer.

Does the printable baby steps tracker link not exist anymore? I'm getting a 404 error. I just found your videos. And you make it look so simple to get into Flylady. It always seems so impossible and overwhelming. I might be ready to give it a try after watching you. Hopefully I will be able to find it. Thanks!

Terri, I have, in the past week, been enjoying lots of fun and relaxing breaks between doing all of the things! My kitchen has finally gotten to where wirking and cleaning in it is so easy, it no longer takes away from time for ither housework, time to sit and enjoy a relaxing activity, spend time with hubby and the fur kids, or get ither housework done. I no longer feel like I'm treading water trying to keep up. My morning routines and evening routines are easier too! And the exercise can now be done AFTER my morning routine, so if I WANT to lay in bed and watch tv with hu by or have conversation with him before I get dressed, I can, and not feel rushed on the mornings. Once zi get up, it only takes me roughly an hour to get myself ready, take care of the gur kids, and do my morning cleaning tasks. Can you believe it took me nrstly FOUR YEARS to get to this point? Do you do know how much eadier it will be now to move forward in the rest of the major de-cluttering and the maintenance that I'm already doing? I can't thank you enough!

Watching this again during a break. I've noticed that this past week, my evening clean up has been reduced to only an hour, and that's STILL with doing the final stage of laundry, and finishing up the hand washing dishes, especially last night. I think the one little change that has made all the difference, was I took just 5 mjnutes early in the week and moved some things around on my kitchen counter that I absolutely NEED to have out. I have a lot on my counters, but it's all things that have functionally and aesthically EARNED their place there. But as much as I kept re-arranging everything now and then, the arrangement was still making clean-up overwhelming, but just a little easier...until this time. EVERY time I go in there to prep or cook now, the clean up as I go and afterward is easy peasy! NOW, I'm not spending every cleaning session during the day doing dishes or kitchen clean up. I"m only doing it during and after prepping or cooking...so I no longer feel stuck in the kitchen all day when I'd rather be doing something else. It's amazing how just one little tweak in the organisation of a space can change EVERYTHING about the function and feel of that space. Now I finally feel like I can take control over how I work all the other routines throughout the day, It truly IS the little tiny changes here and there that add up to HUGE progress 😊

Whats the song title of the background music, Please, please, please? So love the song, just forgot the title.

I really needed that prayer. I'm 53 and have felt everyone else knew what to do and that everyone else had it together my whole life.

So….I have been trying FlyLady for almost a year. I “started AGAIN” on Sunday December 1 (the time coincidentally coincided ~ perfect for Lent, the beginning of a new month AND starts in Zone 1!). God’s perfect plan (for me). Because there is some “reflection”, not just in my sink but in baby step #5(?😬) (writing thoughts), I became aware of my pattern(s) of starting then stopping and beating myself up because “I can’t do anything right” or “What is WRONG with me! WHY can’t I “get this!” With the patterns alone, I dove a little deeper. What I discovered was: 1) the starting/stopping was COMPLETELY the result of not knowing how to get the kids on board; how to incorporate a system into my family (I was barely understanding.) Alone, learning was doable. My grandson and son would come home (side note: son & I both adhd) and within 3 days I’d be back in bed, hopeless. The last time this happened was in April ~ 8 MONTHS ago! THAT IS A LONG TIME. What THAT made me understand is how much power this particular dilemma has had in MY success (All or Nothing, Black or White etc.). 2) ADHD is not only complex it is a “superpower” that requires self awareness. I must know when it is driving me. I was truly not understanding (or believing ~ because this IS mentioned ALL THE TIME), to JUST do the baby steps. I was doing baby steps, zones, daily focus, 5 calendars, 27 fling boogie, 2 minute, 5 minute, 15 minute, 30 minute hot spots (😂)…..I just would not / could not allow the simplicity in. What seems different this time? 🤔 1) my willingness 2) I am not doing it for me, with all my expectations attached. 3) My son returns for Christmas break 12/14-1/5. Finances are minimal. I decided a great Xmas gift would be for him to walk through the door into his “home” ~ not the horrible reminder of all the trauma we have all (me, son, grandson) have endured for the past 12 years. My goal: SHOW my son that “it” (trauma/hardship) is truly over. I am ok. He is ok. New Beginnings are possible. Although I wake up DAILY with anxiety, doubt and negative thoughts yelling “there is NO WAY I can succeed”. I get up anyway. I politely tell my brain to shut up. Say hi to God. Make my bed (even tho I don’t want to because it is a loft bed). The bed being (imperfectly) made is surprisingly a huge push. Something clicks- as if to tell me, “Well, climbing back into bed isn’t an option. Now what?” The next baby steps….THAT’S WHAT!!! My day moves on. Surprisingly, I have accomplished more in the past 3 days than I have in the past few years! To the point where old “home improvement” goals resurfaced. Which, led me to Home Depot seeking guidance on how to use certain tools. Which then led me to Home Depot’s website that has sooooooo many resources. I am going to participate in a webinar today (12/4/24) for 1 hour, on how to use the specific power tools I need help with! I had to pause during this “sidetrack” moment and ask myself if this was necessary. YES!! Absolutely necessary because my apartment is so small (but with very high ceilings). In order to succeed with eliminating MY CHAOS, I have to think VERTICALLY! (Wall hanging organizational systems.) BABY STEPS THERE ALSO!! Anyway….this may seem like a useless rant to some. I wish I could show my journey. My “rant” is nothing less than a miracle. Thank you again Terri for walking me through these steps. (Daily) For today….I’m good. Very Good. My two main mantras: Slow and Steady. Hit my knees before my bed. ❤️🙏❤️

50,000 views! Girl I am SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!

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Q: Does one still do the “baby steps” if there is a lot of clutter?

Wow….I completely COMPLICATED these baby steps!!!! 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ THANK YOU SO MUCH for going through the baby steps this way. ☘️❤🙏❤️☘️

Feel your pain ~ understand that pain ~ want out of that pain.