Creating tangible change takes effort, and effort is the last thing your brain wants to do.

So, when you want to grow, you have to compel yourself. You have to give yourself a compelling reason to do so.

There are tangible things I teach here at This Buffalo Life like the cleaning and maintaining the home life, but taking responsibility is intangible at first. We can't always see it.

To create tangible change, it's necessary to take responsibility for your life and commit to creating the experiences you want to have.

You want to simplify your life so you have space, both physically and mentally.

You want to your life more enjoyable, so you can feel satisfied.

And yes, part of creating that life includes getting the house clean and taking care of the kids.

But it's more about WHO you are being as you’re doing those things, more than what you’re doing.

If you need help getting organized at home, join the Organized Mom Binder program, and do everything in there.

You will have daily routines, a basic weekly routine, and a binder with your menus, deep cleaning, and other important information.

I want to offer that you commit to completing this within a week.

Get it done so you can be organized in your life and actually be able to spend your time how you want to.

Your life is a direct reflection of your mind. If you want to organize your mind, you start by organizing your life. I teach you how to do this inside the Organized Mom Binder program.

To get started, you have to commit.

You have to commit to YOU.

Commitments create action.

If you want to make tangible change in your life, you need to take action. If you want to take action, you need to commit.

make a commitment

I want to help you make this commitment to yourself. Pull out your journal or get a piece of paper and let’s create a commitment to you creating your organized mom binder so you have a way to stay on top of your life.

You need three things to commit:

1. a deadline

2. an emotion

3. an outcome

1| the deadline

We’ll start with the deadline. The deadline is the date you will have whatever it is you want, complete. What needs to happen to get that done? List everything out.

If you join the program, I literally do this for you. I give you the worksheets and all you have to do is print them out, put them in your binder, and fill them in.

Things take as long as you give them. Decide how long you want to give this, and let’s go.

Write your date down.

2| the emotion

Next, you need emotion. Emotion is very important because it drives all of your actions. To choose an emotion that will compel you to take action and do everything on your list until it's DONE.

Go to where it’s already complete in your mind. Your binder is put together and all you have to do is pull it out to see what to focus on for the day. It's easy to plan the week. It's easy to plan the meals (I give you a month of meals planned out already). How would you feel if you were organzied?

This is what Stephen Covey calls, begin with end in mind. This is habit 2 in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. If you can’t picture yourself already having it complete, you’ll never get started.

You can create that picture in your mind. Imagine what it will be like to know exactly what you need to do every morning in order to set yourself up for the best day ever.

Imagine what it would be like to know you don’t have to clean all day and yet the cleaning will get done and you always know what’s for dinner, AND you have time to do something fun for yourself.

Imagine what it will be like to have a bed time routine that will have you feeling relaxed and at ease so you can go to bed knowing you did a good job and you feel ready for tomorrow.

Think about HAVING that in your life. Wouldn’t you be so grateful you took the time to create it? Wouldn’t you be so appreciative of the time and effort you spent to get there?

How you feel having it, is the emotion you want to feel.

3| the outcome

The outcome is the thing you are creating. In this case, your Organized Mom Binder.

Anytime you make a commitment, you want to be clear on what you’re committing to. This is your first assignment on your word. I want you to start thinking about how many times you say you’re going to do something, and then you don’t do it.

How many times do you tell your kids you’ll do something, and even as you say it, you know it’s not going to happen?

We think this is okay. We think it’s not a problem because they’ll forget anyway and we just want to quiet them.

But every time we do this, we’re teaching them how to NOT deal with negative emotion.

Every time we do this, we teach ourselves how to NOT hold our word.

Is it any wonder we have such a hard time following through with what we plan?

We already know we’re not going to do it.

So, take a moment right now and think about this commitment on a higher level.

Think about it really mattering to you.

As if your life depended on it.

Because, in a way, it does.

When I did this, my entire life changed.

This was one of the first dominos that enabled me to get control over my anxiety. It had a profound effect on my life. It can on yours, too.

If you commit to getting this done when you said you would, your life will change.

Do not let excuses derail you. Let them go.

Take the first step today, right now. Go sign up or buy a binder and do it on your own. Decide when you’ll get it. Add the binder to your grocery order.

Commitments create action.

If you’re not taking action, it’s because you’re not committed.

If you’re not committed, go back to the emotion. Create your vision. Do it in a way that inspires you. FEEL it.

I know you can do this, and I know how much easier it is when we have support. Let it be fun! Come join the Organized Mom Binder program so you can create tangible change in your life that lasts.