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Mar 2

Week Seven and Eight: Ingraining New Habits

If you are living alone, or have no help from others in the household, only you can keep up routine cleaning and attend to the deep cleaning tasks. Stay professional by doing tasks with an analytical spirit. Look for ways to streamline. Experiment with a different way of doing the jobs. Pinpoint the interruptions or events that  delay or set you off track.

If you still have organizational problems in certain rooms, now is the time to make them disappear and go away for good. If you conquered them earlier, fine, but if not, make an appointment with yourself to handle them. Get the storage equipment, bags, or shelving needed to corral (if not eliminate) the problem.

I have one question: What is harder than doing all this work yourself–even after designing such great routines?

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Feb 28

Week Six: Riding into the Future

The drill is ROUTINE by now: maintain your routine weekly schedule, doing deep cleaning tasks from the perpetual calendar.

If you have also be doing 1) reading about how to clean and 2) weekly evaluations of how things are going in your real world, you’ve probably done a lot of tweaking to your routine plan and how you work that plan.

If you are looking forward to apprentices shouldering responsibility, then it’s  time to think about when and how you will work yourself out of a cleaning job. Read more

Feb 26

Week Five: Testing the Deep Cleaning Chart

After all the long, arduous instructions to build the calendar, this week is a breeze: just begin doing what is on the deep cleaning chart by your preferred method.

Of course, you need to decide on a plan to do the deep cleaning tasks as well as the routine cleaning.

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Feb 23

Week Four: Using the Cleaning Calendar

In a twist of your sub-conscious mind, as you have been sitting there plugging in tasks, you have been alert to the actual days of this current year. You may have plugged into April 6:  Q: B1: wash win1 (Quarterly task in bedroom 1, washing window 1 in the room) into a slot that just happens to be a Saturday, because you always do jobs like that on a Saturday.

But it won’t always be  Saturday, will it? Next year, April 6 will be Sunday, and who washes windows on a Sunday? Or even worse, if it is leap year, it could be a Monday–or is it a Friday? What possible good can such a calendar be, and after you’ve wasted ALL THIS TIME MAKING ALL THESE LISTS!! Read more

Feb 21

Week Four: Building a Cleaning Calendar

Admittedly, if you have only your Executive Oversight time for design planning, and no quiet afternoons or pleasant evenings on the back porch for extra fill-in-the-calendar sessions, week four may stretch over two or three actual weeks to co-ordinate all the tasks on the calendar, but that is really all right. In the meantime, you can simply invest more time concentrating on the weekly routine plan: tweaking it by combining tasks into little efficient packages, taking note of distractions, and discovering ways to permanently solve nagging frustrations. Besides, slowly building the cleaning calendar and routine cleaning plans has an ulterior motive.

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