Super Easy Household Cleaning Lists

      I wanted a way to organize what I needed to clean as well as "spruce" up my chore list, cause making things pretty makes them for fun!

I looked at quite a few chore charts and lists online but all of them seemed either too boring, or time consuming to fill in myself.

Soo I decide to go with a super simple idea.

I found a stationary border that I liked online, and simply filled it in with the list.
It is not very fancy but i think it works perfectly, I can easily change the border, and it can also be printed out and put in a notebook or folder. :)

I saved the image into my pictures and used paint to add in the rest.

Tada!

Cleaning Plan

I have looked at some youtube videos and cleaning blogs for some inspiration. I think inspiration and motivation are some of the most important parts of being able to accomplish things. :)

I will make two separate kinds of chore lists. One is a "Daily Chores List" where I will include some things to do everyday to keep house tidy and etc. 

List number two will be a list for each room/section of the house. I will list all the things in each room that need cleaning and will designate one section per day. 

Example:  Monday-Kitchen  Tuesday-Bathroom Wednesday-Bedroom  Thursday-Main rooms + Balconies Friday-Office  Saturday-Misc. 

I want my home to always look like I am expecting company and be in a good routine of keeping it that way. 

Morning Person Plan

This is exactly how I feel!

     I have always hated going to bed and hated waking up. Every night my mind fills with random thoughts that keep me awake, sometimes until 9:00 am the next day, and every morning the self-control I had so much of the night before seems to have vanished completely!

Obviously, i'm not the first person in the world to have difficulty with this, so i'm determined to adjust my schedule and create good sleep habits.
I don't need to rise and set with the sun, there is no reason for it. Simply waking up at 5:00 am doesn't make you a productive person. I still want to enjoy evenings with my husband and friends but for me, personally, If I stay up and sleep too late I feel lazier and after the gym in the evenings, even if I only woke up a few hours before, physical exercise coupled with the sky getting dark tells my brain that it is time to be a lazy bum.
No one wants to do the dishes when their brain says it is time to lie on the couch.

My plan is to slowly adjust myself to an earlier schedule by moving my bed time and waking times 30 minutes earlier at a time. I've looked at other blogs and websites for ideas and most suggest 15 minutes but i'm currently waking up REALLY late and I think 30 minutes every 2-3 days will do nicely :). So about four hours earlier in three weeks.
Nine is obviously not the most ambitious time to wake up but after doing university online, and having random work days. I have rarely had a necessary reason to wake up early, and this time is perfect for me to get a good start on my day and still have time to relax in the evening. :)

How to Set Goals for Personal Habits

The best way to improve yourself is to clearly establish what you want. Everyone has ideas of what they want to be but you can't really work hard for something if you don't know what it is.

1. Brainstorm (I like that word  =D)

I just brainstormed on a piece of paper to start, if I could be anything I wanted what would I be? How would I look? What would my daily life be like? I don't have a full time job but teach English on the weekends and do modelling jobs but those are at random times/ days so it isn't something I can plan into a schedule. I'm also currently on summer break so I don't have any school specific goals just habits I want to establish to improve myself overall. 

2. Condense
So I have about 16 goals and they are already fairly condensed, I want to make 10 main goals that I can focus on a few at a time
-First, I will combine a few related ones together. Being thin and having a six pack can be combined because if i want a six pack I have to lose fat and using less English in day to day life will obviously help to improve my fluency in other languages.
-Crossing off be productive because focusing on all of these goals is going to improve my productivity so it doesn't feel necessary to make it a separate goal.
-Also crossed off Graduate from college because it was more of a goal than a "habit" I want to establish and I have never had an issue with passing classes and etc.
-I also decided to replace losing fat and getting a six pack with "exercise more" because that combined with eating healthier is the only good way to achieve those goals anyways. 

3. Prioritize

So now that I have picked my habits/goals, I need to decide which ones are the most important to me, or which ones I should work on first. I think it is best to only pick 1-2 (3 max if one is easy) because in the past when I felt motivated to begin goals and start the next day off as a productive perfect human being, I always ended up overwhelming myself or stopping after a short time. Trying to establish too many habits at once is just too difficult and will make almost anyone miserable.
My number one habit will be "Morning Person" I don't plan to wake up at 6 am everyday but I would like to start my days earlier so I can get more done and spend more time working on my goals and life.
Habit number two will be "Keep a Clean Home" because I find that I, and most people, are more productive and functional when the environment around them is clean and organized.
I'm going to start with these two and add as I get used to them. :) 

4. Plan
I think it is important to make a plan for the goals so that I know which steps to take and some things to help me improve :). I'm going to make separate posts with my plans for my two current goals. 

5. Begin!

Beginning

I Finally decided to start a blog.
I had spent the last week feeling really unmotivated and well...depressed.
Lying in bed was truly the most glorious thing in the world and there was nothing that gave me the desire to do anything else.

Exercising to get that body you have always wanted?!
Keeping a clean and beautiful home?!
Cooking gourmet meals that are not only delicious but also healthy?!
How about waking up a little earlier? Maybe?
Nah.....

Today, I finally decided enough was enough; I'm pushing myself so far away from my goals that they are beginning to feel unreachable. Don't get me wrong, I'm not doing badly with my life.
I'm 18, I'm happily married, I've completed a year of college, I'm doing well financially, blah blah.

But lately, I've fallen into a bit of a "productivity" rut. I just seem to have lost that "umph" and desire to work at stuff the way I used to.
I've been staying up until 6 or 7 am and sleeping until 4pm, I haven't cooked in weeks (something I used to love), haven't felt like working out or exercising, haven't stretched in weeks, and all my language learning plans have been forgotten, and I haven't even begun researching the college I was planning to transfer to. The list could go on..

I made a goal on my 43things account and realized I was practically using the website as a blog and having a blog would give me a much larger sense of accountability.
Soo why not start a blog to help motivate myself to improve the way I live :)