Your Agile Home

Executive function helps with your self-regulation tasks. When you struggle with executive function, you have trouble with planning, focusing attention, remembering instructions and juggling multliple tasks at a time.

There is less on my plate with Agile and I know what to expect.

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I'm a bit late to the bullet journal train, but I have been using this on my tablet.

1. I put my weekly schedule on there. It's important for me to see it as a spread.

2. I put our meal planning on there.

3, I put my gratitude journal there. I try to be as specific as possible.

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Today, I'm chatting with my friend Rose Lounsbury about minimalism.

Overwhelm and burnout are common feelings that lead people toward minimalism.  Once Rose got her house "under control" a lot of the stress and overwhelm caused by her home was gone. She could finally relax.

We discuss how to decide what you need in your life.  Change the questions that you ask yourself.

Reduce the amount of things you need. That cuts down on what you need to organize and keep clean.

If you're unsure or you need training wheels, get a "purgatory" box.

We also discuss how things changed with the pandemic.

We wrap up talking about where is the best place to start. 1. Start somewhere easy. 2. Start with your own stuff.

Learn More About Rose: 

Rose Lounsbury is a keynote speaker, coach, and Amazon bestselling author who helps busy people reduce stress, improve wellness, and create more joy and balance in their lives through simplicity. After blogging about her personal journey toward a simpler lifestyle, Rose was inspired to leave her classroom teaching job and help others find the freedom that comes with owning less stuff. Rose spends her days speaking, writing, and helping her clients and online students create more open spaces in their lives. If you want to know how many towels she owns, you can watch her TEDx Talk, which has over 400,000 views. Rose’s advice has been featured on USAToday.com, and she’s been a guest on Good Day Columbus, WYSO, WVXU, Good Morning Cincinnati, and Living Dayton. She lives in lovely Dayton, Ohio with her husband and wild triplets. You can visit her online at RoseLounsbury.com.

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Agile helps with so many life skills. Here are a few.

Focus - Agile helps our family have focus on tasks and to reach our goals.

Communication - We are learning how to give and receive feedback.

Critical Thinking - We are looking at things and making up creative solutions based on what we know and can infer.

Self-Direction - This happens because we are self-assigning tasks.

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A Home Management Schedule keeps everyone on the same page. For example, laundry is listed on the days it happens. It makes us all accountable to the laundry happening.

We all have tasks we don't like to do. You don't have to do that chore, but you have to find a system to get it done. 

Your Home Management Schedule keeps the overwhelm away. 

Listen for an example of my Home Management Schedule.

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This is a matrix created by Dwight Eisenhower. He had so many jobs that required tough decisions.

There are 4 boxes.

Top Left: Urgent & Important Top Right: Not Urgent & Important Bottom Left: Urgent & Not Important Bottom Right: Not Urgent & Not Important

This is important to sort because sometimes you get caught up in pretty but not important. 

Look at the kinds of things that will create success for you and your family right now. 

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You can absolutely agile without technology. Many people use post it notes or white boards. 

Many of these tools you are already using. 

My favorites are:

Google calendar

Whiteboard (for sprint planning)

Dakboard

Kids Magnetic Daily Schedule

ClickUp

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The MoSCoW Method is what "Must be, Should be, Could be and Won't be included in your project".

It helps define your priorities. It helps manage what you need to do. 

Make sure that it happens in this order. 

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It can feel hard setting up a morning routine, but having one can make your day successful. 

I get my basic hygiene ready. We do our daily stand up. We switch off on getting kids situated at school, depending on what the daily schedule is. I work from 9 - 11:30 every morning.

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This is the best way to get your work seen.

Use a shared calendar.

Share your iCal link.

Use a physical calendar in a high-traffic area.

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