The flu season is upon us! It happens every year! And every year people die from the flu at an alarming rate, but we can’t live in fear!
Most of the time we ignore the notifications about flu shots being available at your corner drug store; my doctor told me a few months ago that they were not going to get a supply of flu shots because they go to waste. I think this year our awareness has been heightened. This can be good!
Awareness keeps the subject in the news. Out of sight, out of mind, not anymore. We will not take our health for granted this year. All we have to do is keep germs from spreading and take care of ourselves by eating nutritious food, exercising and getting plenty of sleep.
Let’s use some of our good ol’ common sense to keep these germs from spreading!
1. Wash your hands often with hot soapy water while you sing “Happy Birthday.”
2. Use hand sanitizer in addition to hand washing and when you can’t wash your hands.
3. Don’t touch your face, nose and eyes with your hands.
4. Cover your mouth with your inside elbow when you cough or sneeze instead of your hand.
5. Wash your hands before you eat.
6. Wash your hands immediately when you get home.
7. Put out clean hand towels every day.
8. Use a fork or a spoon so you are not handling your food.
9. Limit exposure by staying home more for meals.
10. Make a grocery list and shop once a week.
11. If you are sick; stay home! Martyrs spread more germs!
These are habits that we can establish easily. Put a sign in your bathroom to wash your hands. Teach your children to wash their hands and set up a routine for this.
If you are FLYing, you will be one step ahead of these flu germs with your routines for shopping and keeping your home clean. We cannot live in fear of something that common sense tells me is bad every year. Let’s do what we can with the knowledge we have!
Now, go wipe off some door knobs, light switches, faucets, remote controls and computer keyboards. I use a clean wash cloth with rubbing alcohol on it. You have to go fast because the alcohol evaporates. Ready, set, go!
For more help getting rid of your CHAOS, check out Marla Cilley’s website and join her free mentoring group at www.FlyLady.net, listen to her www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady show, or read her books, Sink Reflections, published by Bantam, and her New York Times bestselling book, Body Clutter, published by Fireside. Copyright 2009 Marla Cilley. Used by permission in this publication.
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