• Without all the rushing, you can sit down and eat a breakfast fit for the queen that you are. It may just be a yogurt smoothie, but you will be filling up your personal fuel tank with good nutritious food, not junk on the run. You may also have fewer digestion problems when you slow down your food consumption.

• Now you are in your car and not rushing to get to work, because you factored in drive time. You have even added a few extra minutes for traffic, and you may surprise everyone by being at work early or getting the kids to school without having to write a late note. This will mean no speeding ticket and some extra money in your pocket, because your insurance has not gone up due to the points on your driver's license.

Every single thing we procrastinate can be put into this avalanche scenario. Just stop and think when you hear yourself saying "I don't have time" or "I don't feel like it right now." We are never going to feel like scrubbing the toilet, but it sure is nice when you are hugging that piece of porcelain during a bout of stomach flu. We don't have to feel like doing it to just get up and do something. With this attitude, we are getting it out of the way so we can go play and enjoy our day without the stress and guilt.

If you will just start with one of these little suggestions, you will be slowing down the effects of the avalanche.

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Marla Cilley, a k a FlyLady, is the author of Sink Reflections (Bantam Books Trade Paperback). For more help, please go to her Web site: www.FlyLady.net. © 2005