{"id":960,"date":"2015-01-15T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/15\/the-prompt-week-50-focus-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:38","slug":"the-prompt-week-50-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/the-prompt-week-50-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prompt: Week 50 – Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI stumbled across \u201cThe Prompt\u201d<\/a> for the first time last week,
\nas I was scrolling through my G+ feed. The idea behind \u201cThe Prompt\u201d is to focus<\/b>
\non your writing, rather than the images you use to illustrate your words. This
\nsounded like a really good writing challenge for me, as my blog heavily relies
\non images to showcase the art and crafts projects that I have been working on
\nwith my children. This week\u2019s prompt is Focus<\/b>, which is a really important word
\nfor me this month, so I decided to have a go and link up my thoughts on what
\n<\/b>focus <\/b>means to me right now.<\/div>\n
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\nThis year I am setting myself monthly goals<\/a>, rather than the
\nusual New Year\u2019s resolutions, which often fall by the way side after just a few
\nweeks. I am hoping that by setting myself goals each month, this will allow me
\nto manage my time much better and to focus on what I really need to get done.
\nTowards the end of last year, I felt my life was just getting far too busy. I
\nwas trying to do too many things all at the same time and doing none of them
\nvery well. I was beginning to lose focus<\/b> on what I really needed to get done. I
\nwas wasting far too much time stressing over the amount I had to do, flitting
\nfrom one thing to another and never really finishing anything off properly. <\/div>\n
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\nOne of the big problems I was having was keeping on top of
\nthe household chores.  <\/span>Therefore my main
\nfocus<\/b> this month is to implement a \u201cFamily Cleaning Schedule\u201d. This will
\nhopefully help us to stay on top of all the household chores that we have been
\nfalling behind on. This may sound trivial to some, but for me if our house is
\nin good order, then everything else going on around us tends to run much more
\nsmoothly as well. For example getting the kids ready for school each morning is
\nso much easier, if I don\u2019t have to start clearing surfaces or piles of washing
\nout of the way first before making their breakfast. Each evening now the kids
\nare asked to clear away anything they have left out on the counter tops and
\nthen they sweep up, whilst I tackle the mountain on laundry to be folded. After
\na few initial grumbles the kids are now enjoying their new routines (and the
\nlittle bit of pocket money it has started to earn them) and it is rubbing off
\nin other areas of the house now as well. The boys are much happier keeping
\ntheir rooms tidy. And now that we are asking them to take responsibility for
\ntidying their dirty clothes into the laundry basket, rather than leaving them
\non the floor, when I come up to hover, now I can get straight on with the task
\nin hand and not waste time picking things up off the floor before I can begin.<\/div>\n
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\nTo get us started this month I have drawn up a list of jobs
\nwhich need doing each week in each area of the house. Then as each job gets
\ncompleted we put a tick next to it. This helps to keep track of what has
\nalready been done. It also provides us with a handy reference for when we do
\nget a few minutes to fit in some cleaning, we can take a quick look to see what
\nhasn\u2019t been done yet and focus on that. Then tick it off before moving onto the
\nnext job. This has worked very well for the first two weeks of the year and
\nonly time will tell if we can maintain our good start. There has been a
\nnoticeable drop in the tension levels in the house, which are all feeling the
\nbenefit from. So if we can keep our focus on what needs to be done, then we are
\nin with a good chance of keeping our house clean and today and more harmonious.<\/div>\n
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\nI\u2019ve really enjoyed taking the focus<\/b> of my writing away from
\npurely arts and crafts for a short while in this post. This is something I plan
\nto do more of as the year develops. I am certainly looking forward to seeing
\nwhat the next \u201cPrompt\u201d will be and joining in again sometime.<\/div>\n
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\nWhat have you been focussing on this week?<\/div>\n
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