the image i found when i googled chaos
I am at the end of my rope with the paper that comes in to the house. No matter how many times I sort, file, and recycle the frickin paper it is still drowning me. I find it so hard to focus on making me a better me when the house is so chaotic. I feel that the kids should be pitching in more, but then they get home from they are so exhausted, or there is an after school activity,and then before you know it bed time rolls around. I suppose I also don’t want to be a slave driver… but I am not doing them any favours but not instilling a work ethic in them. I am obsessed with Till Debt Do Us Part a money managment show on TV. Gail has articles on her website about kids and money. http://www.gailvazoxlade.com/articles/article5.htm
We have done the chore chart before with good success, but any program works only as well as the people behind it. I have struggled with paying the kids for chores or giving them an allowance to help them learn how to manage money and they have to do chores for no compensation because they are part of a family. For the most part when I as the girls to do something they are quite accomodating.
I wonder if live will be a continuous cycle of tearing stuff out of closets, leaving it in a pile for weeks and then finally stuffing it somewhere else because company is coming.
Do you have any ideas for keeping organized?
What does this all have to do with running? In the past I have let myself spiral in to a depression and give up exercise when I am feeling overwhelmed by the mess and chaos. So it is all related and needs to be address in order to be successful.
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