Smart Ways to Clean Your House Like a Pro Housekeeper Smart Ways to Clean Your House Like a Pro Housekee | Page 6

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inspire you to make your home as beautiful as you can. You can even look at pictures of
your house when it is in its ideal state for inspiration.
Think about how much happier you will be after it is done. You probably have also
noticed how much calmer and more productive you are in an organized environment.
The more cluttered and unclean your environment is, the more stressed you feel.
Get a friend to hold you accountable. Call up a friend and tell them that you are having
trouble finding the motivation to clean. Ask your friend to check in with you every twenty
minutes or so to check your progress. Just the feeling of having someone who is keeping
track of your cleaning can be enough to motivate you to do it. You can also talk to your
friend on speaker phone as you are cleaning. Talking with them will make cleaning more
enjoyable, and they can check up on you to make sure you're cleaning.
Invite people to your house. If you are cleaning in the afternoon, invite people over later
in the day. You will be motivated to save yourself the embarrassment of a messy house.
This may seem like an extreme measure, but sometimes you need the pressure of other
people seeing your home to really get the drive to clean. Make sure to give yourself
enough time to clean before your guests come over
Post on social media. Make a post about your cleaning project. You will receive positive
feedback from friends, and you feel accountable now that you have made your goal
public. To really hold yourself accountable, you can post something like, “Finally getting
around to reorganizing my house! Pictures to come.” The fact that you have to show
proof of your cleaning will really get you motivated!
Buy something new for your house. Buying something new can give you the motivation
to clean because you want to be able to see how your new item fits in with the rest of
your house. You will want to give the new item the place it deserves, and this can drive
you to clean. Even buying something small like a candle or a vase can give you the
incentive to clean.
5.0.2 Making Cleaning More Manageable
1. Make a list. If you feel like you don’t even know where to begin, make a list of each part
of your house you need to clean. This will break up the work into more manageable bits,
so that you can focus on one thing at a time. You could make a list of all the rooms in
your house that need to be cleaned, such as “Bathroom, Guest Bedroom, Kitchen Closet,
Dining Room." You can also organize the work by tasks, for example: “Polish silver, dust
bookshelves, take out the trash, vacuum carpets."
2. Set an alarm. Setting an alarm can help make cleaning more manageable, because you
have a clear idea of when you will be stopping. If you aren’t working within a certain
timeframe, you are slower and more easily distracted so that cleaning can take all day.