Flylady Baby Steps Day 8 – Let’s Start Working on Our Control Journal

Welcome to Flylady baby steps day 8 for getting your home and life in order.

For Day 8, we need to continue working on our Flylady Baby Steps:

Shine Your Sink (Day 1)
Dress to Shoes (I get dressed to socks) (Day 2)
Read Flylady’s Website/App (Day 3)
Read Your Post-It Notes (Day 4)
Make Time for Yourself (Day 5)
2-Minute Hot Spot Clean (Day 6)
Clothes For Tomorrow (Day 7)

Flylady Baby Step Day 8 – Starting a Control Journal

Today, we’re going to start building a control journal. It’s a guide to keeping all of your habits/routines together in one place. You don’t have to make it complicated.

I'm holding a lot of heavy binders — Very Heavy Binders

What Do You Need?

You can use anything you want that you already have at home, whether it’s a notepad, notebook, clipboard, or a binder.

I’ve gone through the Flylady Baby Steps a few years ago, and I still use my control binder every single day. My binder started with a few blank pages. Now it’s a full binder that keeps me productive in every part of my life.

I'm holding my flylady baby steps control journal

In the video, I show you how I started building my control journal. It doesn’t have to be fancy.

I put lined paper in the binder. Then I added post-it notes, pencil, and pen in a pencil pouch.

Flylady Baby Step Day 8 - Starting a Control Journal

Morning and Before Bed Routines

Then we have to write down the habits that we’re working on and put them in their routine section/paper, for example:
Write down “morning routine” and the habits that you’re working on.

Morning Routine

Dress to Shoes
Post-It Notes
Flylady Emails
Coffee(which is me being kind to myself because I love my cup of coffee in the morning)
Hot Spot Clean
Change Your Negative Voices Into Positive
Clean Sink

Then on another piece of paper, write down before bed routine or nighttime routine and the habits that you’re working on.

Bedtime Routine

Clean Sink Before Bed
Layout Clothes for Tomorrow
Do Another Hot Spot Clean

That’s all you need to write down so far. We’ll continue building our control journal throughout the rest of the Flylady baby steps.

If you would like, you can also put these pages inside a clear plastic sheet, so you could use a dry erase marker to check off the tasks for the day, then erase and repeat.

Don’t worry if you don’t have a plastic sheet protector. Just use what you have and continue working on your baby steps.

Flylady’s Books:

Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a good day!

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