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The document outlines the creation and use of a Control Journal to help individuals develop good work habits and maintain balance in their professional and personal lives. It includes detailed routines for morning, afternoon, and evening tasks for both home and office settings, as well as a weekly plan to manage chores and projects effectively. The author emphasizes the importance of adapting these routines to fit individual lifestyles and encourages readers to stay organized and focused.

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Office Coj

The document outlines the creation and use of a Control Journal to help individuals develop good work habits and maintain balance in their professional and personal lives. It includes detailed routines for morning, afternoon, and evening tasks for both home and office settings, as well as a weekly plan to manage chores and projects effectively. The author emphasizes the importance of adapting these routines to fit individual lifestyles and encourages readers to stay organized and focused.

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My Office Control Journal

C 2001 FlyLady & Co. Inc

Copyright 2004 All rights reserved; FlyLady and Company Inc.


How to Build Good Work Habits

As SHEs we pride ourselves in working well under pressure. The problem


with this is we really don’t do well with anything else while we are finishing
a project. Sometimes our creativity gets in the way of our finishing a job.
This is why and I developed a Control Journal for FLYLADY. I was pretty
good at FLYing by the seat of my pants but I figured it was time I developed
routines for my work life.

I needed a focus to keep me from bouncing from one thing to the next
without every completing or following up on the progress after I had handed
it off to another person. My problem was I work from home. My work day
begins at 9:00am and ends at bed time. I know this seems long for most
people but this is my life’s purpose, but I had to find a balance and still keep
my home clean, my work done, write my books, and develop creative ideas
to help our members.

I have been using my Office Control Journal for several months and it has
helped me stay on top of everything that I need to without feeling
overwhelmed by deadlines and unfinished projects. I wanted to build this so
you could adapt it to your work life or your life’s work. I work from home
and this is why I incorporated my home Control Journal with my FlyLady
Control Journal. Many of you work from home too. This can also be adapted
for an office outside of your home. All you have to do is pull out the sheets
that you don’t need. So where do we start. As with all good Control Journals
the Before Bed Routines helps us to get started the next morning.

Let’s built it and see our professional life become as peaceful as our homes.

You can do this! If I did then anyone can.

FlyLady
Home Before Bed Routine
This starts after dinner

1. Shine your sink

2. Lay out clothes for tomorrow

3. Put away any laundry

4. Make any phone calls you need to make

5. Put drinking glasses in the dishwasher

6. Take a relaxing bubble bath, wash face, brush teeth, moisturize

7. Clear off any Hot Spots; coffee table, kitchen counter, chair

8. Check Calendar for tomorrow’s family activities

9. Turn off computer 10:00 pm

10._____________________________________

11. _____________________________________

12. _____________________________________

13. _____________________________________

14. _____________________________________

15. _____________________________________

16. _____________________________________

17. GO TO BED AT A DECENT HOUR!!


You need your rest!
This is on the left side of the binder on the back side of a sheet protector. These two sheets face each other.
Office Before Bed Routine

1. Put any thing you need to take with you by the front door launching pad
or on your desk.

2. Check your work calendar for any appointments you may have.

3. Make sure the clothes you have laid out are appropriate for tomorrow’s
schedule.

4. Make notes for things you need to remember for tomorrow. Write them
on the bottom of this sheet in dry erase marker.

5. Set your alarm clock

Notes for tomorrow:

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This is on the right side of the binder in a sheet protector.


Home Morning Routine

1. Get up and make bed immediately

2. Shower and get dressed to shoes, hair and face.

3. While you are in the bathroom; Swish and Swipe; pick up after yourself.

4. Eat breakfast and take vitamins

5. Start a load of laundry

6. Empty dishwasher

7. Bless your heart by moving; we hate the “E” Word.

8. ___________________________________________

Add new habits as you need them; do not over burden yourself with a routine that is too elaborate.

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Office Morning Routine
You are going to have to think about your day and what needs to be done first.
These are the things that have to be done every morning.
Use a pencil to get started. Your morning routine will evolve.

1. Check last nights list of things to remember; Your NOTES:

2. Drink your water and have a healthy snack.

3. Check your work calendar for appointments

4. ___________________________________________

5. ___________________________________________

6. ___________________________________________

7. ___________________________________________

8. ___________________________________________

9. ___________________________________________

10. ___________________________________________

11. ___________________________________________
Home Afternoon Routine
If you are home do this early afternoon if you are at an office do this when you first get home.

1. Eat Lunch

2. Drink Water and eat a healthy snack

3. Reboot laundry

4. Start Dinner; even if it is in your head.

5. Hot Spot Fire Drill

6. Swiffer the floor

7. Feather Dust.

Adapt this to fit your home and family.

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Office Afternoon Routine

1. Clear off the Hot Spot on your desk.

2. Eat lunch and drink your water

3. Check phone messages

4. Return phone calls

5. Return emails

Now I want you to think about each day; that things do you have to do in the
afternoons.

6. ___________________________________________

7. ___________________________________________

8. ___________________________________________

9. ___________________________________________

10.___________________________________________

11. Clear off your desk to go home.

12. Turn off coffee pot

13. Turn off lights and lock door.

Notes for tomorrow:


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How to Build your Basic Weekly Plan
for Home and Office

Our Basic Weekly Plan is how we get things done. Use it to help you to
remember things to do. This is not hard. So don’t get overwhelmed by this.

I will break down my Weekly Home Blessing hour into several days. You
can do this too. Please adapt it to fit your home and office.

Now I want you to list all the things that need to be done in your home and
office during the week. Then take the list and spread it out over the days.

HOME OFFICE

_Grocery shop___________ ____________________________

_Vacuum_______________ ____________________________

_Dust__________________ ____________________________

_Get Rid of Magazines____ ____________________________

_Mop___________________ ____________________________

_Change Sheets__________ ____________________________

_Empty Trash___________ ____________________________

_Clean mirrors, windows and doors ____________________________

_Clean out your car_______ ____________________________

_Pay Bills _______________ ____________________________

_Clean out your purse_____ ____________________________

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Monday at Home

Do my Morning Routine first.

1. Empty Trash
Monday at the Office

1. Do my morning office routine and

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

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Tuesday at Home

1. Do my Morning Routine first.

2. Vacuum or swiffer
Tuesday at the Office

1. Do my morning office routine and

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

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Wednesday at Home

1. Do my Morning Routine first.

2. Plan Menus and make grocery list

3. Clean out Refrigerator

4. Get rid of Magazines

5. Look at next week’s schedule


Wednesday at the Office

1. Do my morning office routine and

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

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Thursday at Home

1. Do my Morning Routine first.

2. Change Sheets

3. Shop for Groceries


Thursday at the Office

1. Do my morning office routine and

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

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Friday at Home

1. Do my Morning Routine first.

2. Clean out car

3. Clean out purse

4. Sweep and mop bathroom

5. Date Night
Friday at the Office

1. Do my morning office routine and

2. _____________________________

3. _____________________________

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Saturday; Family Fun Day

1. Do my morning routine and then go have some fun


with your family
Sunday: Renew Your Spirit Day

1. Do my morning routine and then fill my soul with


love!
Projects: How I keep up with things

We have so many things going on at one time and several people working on
them. The first thing I did was brainstorm everything we are working on.
Then I took each project and put it on a page all by itself.

I have a couple of days each week that I take 15 minutes to go through my


list of projects and make little notes on where we stand. Believe it or not;
some of these projects are beginning to see fulfillment. We are so excited at
the progress.

These project sheets help me to not have to keep all of this information in
my head.

Now take a few minutes to brainstorm about all the projects you are
juggling. Then make a sheet for each one.

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