Hello all and Happy New Year!
A warm welcome to the January Flylady thread. This is a lovely friendly thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.
Every day the thread leader (me this month) posts links and missions from the Flylady site and also some friendly (!) personal comments. This is quite a ‘talky’ thread but we try our hardest not to be cliquey and new members are very welcome! Typically there are a lot of new members in January so I will do my best to keep track of everybody 
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Old members, as you know there have been a few issues with links at times so if there is some chopping and changing over the month with the links then that is why. Please note that Flylady is (understandably) keen for people to click on her site so please do have a look around the site and the links.
On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise caution as there are hundreds of them.
We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.
Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/
The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php
Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.
I’m sure lots of you have New Years Resolutions to be organised and to declutter, as I do every year 
. Be kind to yourselves and careful not to crash and burn!
I am risking making two:-
Go to bed at 11pm unless decent reason why not.
Spend less time on my phone.
Here are the links for Monday 1st Jan. although I am linking these then if you are treating today as a holiday (as much as is possible in real life anyway!) then feel free to take today off.
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Here is the daily summary for Monday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day).

I’m afraid I start the year confused 
. I’ve just looked on the Flylady website and the link to the zone and missions is here which indicates we will be in zone 5 which is the living room. I would have thought the month starts in zone 1 but I know this has happened before, I think SC explained? TBH after Xmas I think most living rooms could use a bit of work so it won’t hurt . Apologies if this is confusing.
Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time, with varying degrees of success!
Spend 15 mins decluttering, or whatever you can manage, in Zone 5.
When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 5 is here.
daily focus
missions for the week
Flykids mission
January’s habit is shining your sink.
beginner babysteps.
Happy flying everyone.
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