I have a problem. I lack consistency. I go head strong into something, then the fire turns to a small flame, and the project, behavior, rule, whatever, goes by the wayside. I know people exist like this every day, but sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one.

Like in our homeschooling life... one year I made a calendar with magnets for chores, bed times, school tasks and projects, etc.  We stuck with it several months, but then it just became another decoration on the refrigerator.

Daily scheduling... I was so good about it when we started in August, but now I'm not nearly as consistent.

House Cleaning... oh, I don't even want to go there.  The whole family goes through phases on that one. There are some weeks that the house remains neat and reasonably organized, and others where I just want to run away from the clutter. Most times, though, I'm embarrassed to let anyone come through my doors!

Is there any hope for an almost 42-year-old lacking consistency and discipline???

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Posted by camillaanderson

Don't give up. Just press on, press on, press on. I started trying to schedule, organize my home, and more about four years ago. I just wrote a post about our progress this morning! It may encourage you if you want to check it out (I think I called it "How We Keep Our Home Clean" or something like that). I still don't have it all together, but if I look back over the road we've come, we're so much better than we used to be. Each day that I get up and try again to have an orderly day and to be consistent in my housekeeping, my scheduling, my homeschooling, and my child training, each day we get a little better. New habits are formed.

Your calling is to be a keeper of your home and to be orderly, scheduled, and organized. You know it. I can tell from your post it is your heart. Just keep PRESSING ON.

Philippians 3: 12-16 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend (achieve) that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind (forget yesterday's failures!), and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (keeping your home is your high calling!). Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you (DON"T GIVE UP!). Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Blessings to you and praying for you.

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Posted by 5atkins

God is all about order and also beauty and abundant joy! He will give you the resources, skill, etc. to do all that your family needs. When you start slacking off (as we all do), first get on your knees and ask for His strength which is made perfect in our weakness, and then try again! (Now I am going to take my own exhortation and get back to some home organizing myself!) :) Praying for you! In Him, Eva

Edited by 5atkins on Dec. 14, 2006 at 6:39 PM

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