This happens today. We are good at hiding it from others. We skate at home and in our work life. At work when you skate you will eventually be found out and your job is at stake. You don't have that problem at home or do you? You really know the truth, and that truth makes you feel guilty. The guilt manifests itself in many ways; weight gain, financial problems, clutter taking over and relationship problems. When we are confronted with our skating; we deflect the attention on us to the problems around us. It doesn't work; you are found out!

When we skate through life, we have our heads down and we don't see what is going on around us. We are skating as fast as we can and, as a result, we go round and round in circles; doomed to repeat the mistakes and stay stuck in our ruts. How do we stop this vicious circle that we have created for ourselves?

You join FlyLady to try to get your house in order but you start skating all over again. You just want to jump to the end of the chapter and start answering questions without allowing the process of FLYing to help you find the peace I have promised you. There are no shortcuts.

Whenever someone complains that FlyLady is not working for them we ask have you started to declutter your home. Are you getting dressed to lace up shoes? Have you shined your sink? You see you just can't skip to the end without going though the baby steps that help you get there.

Don't make it harder than it really is! Take your baby steps and enjoy the process!

Progress not Perfection in 2007! Let's get out of our ruts, raise our heads and open up our eyes to focus on the prize of peace in our lives!

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For more help getting rid of your CHAOS; check out: www.flylady.net. Also see Cilley's book, "Sink Reflections" and her new book, "Body Clutter." Copyright 2006 Marla Cilley Used by permission in this publication.