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Other people in your household 
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because you're showing them by 
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be. 
I'm Ronnie, and you're listening

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to Clean With Me, the podcast 
where I walk you through 

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cleaning your house step by 
step. 

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When you clean along with this 
show, you'll get more done in 

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less time, so you can spend the 
rest of your day doing what 

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matters most to you. 
Thanks for joining me. 

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In today's episode, I'm going to
talk about the importance of 

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staying on top of things. 
And since this is more of a 

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topical episode, I encourage you
to work on whatever needs to be 

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done at your house. 
I have a lot of episodes about 

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doing dishes, cleaning the 
kitchen, cleaning the bathroom, 

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picking up the outer areas, 
picking up your bedroom, making 

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the bed. 
And if you need to complete one 

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or more of those tasks, by all 
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This would also be a great 
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you're doing a deeper cleaning 
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Sometimes people write in and 
ask for an episode to listen to 

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while they're washing all of 
their windows or cleaning their 

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oven. 
Another thing you could do is 

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get caught up on laundry. 
And if you're new to the show, 

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in most episodes I talk you 
through cleaning specific areas 

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of your home. 
I talk you through doing the 

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dishes. 
But once in a while, I like to 

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do just a topical episode that's
kind of a catch all for whatever

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you need to work on at your 
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Obviously we all know on some 
level that it's easier to keep 

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up on housework than to catch 
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a reset. 
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you just need to do a little bit
in each area of your home, I 

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encourage you to subscribe to my
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of episodes that are 40 minutes 
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And there are even some 2 hour 
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subscribing. 
And you can access those 

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episodes through Patreon, Apple 
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you can visit 
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Or if you scroll back far 
enough, I've got some whole of 

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house episodes for free on this 
regular feed. 

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But this episode is more topical
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Like I was saying, we all know 
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housework than to catch up. 
And sometimes we need a reset 

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where we clean the whole house. 
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challenge is in maintaining it, 
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talk about today. 
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babies and toddlers or just kids
of any age, this can be 

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challenging. 
And I can't create a chore list 

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for you or solve all of your 
problems because everybody's 

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situation is different. 
But what I can do is give you 

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some little tips that I think 
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Something that's really been 
helping me lately is just a 

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different mindset about dishes. 
In the past, if you've been 

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listening to the show for a 
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I've talked about doing all of 
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I've talked about checking on 
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two or three times a day. 
But lately, I've gotten to the 

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point where virtually every time
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dishes. 
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against the grain for you. 
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don't have time to do that. 
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throughout the day, there are 
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when I walk in and I quickly 
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It creates a higher standard for
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people in clean environments are
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OK, for example, if your mom's 
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there's never a dirty dish in 
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just insert the person here who 
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to their house and you make a 
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Of course you're going to clean 
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kitchen the way you found it. 
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yourself anytime you're at 
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But let's say you have a friend 
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And you get a phone call and you
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in a hurry and you just leave 
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table because she, you know, she
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And don't get me wrong, if 
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know that you need to leave in a
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up after you, great, that's 
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But my point is that we all have
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ourselves a little more when we 
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what I'm trying to explain here.
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or a homemaker, or you work and 
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encourage you to wash any dirty 
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the kitchen. 
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different things. 
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rinse something and place it in 
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Or if you're like me, maybe your
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plate and put it in the sink, 
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next time you go into the 
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then wait and let the dishes 
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It's just something I want you 
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works. 
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things the way we were brought 
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for our parents. 
It doesn't necessarily work best

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for us. 
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growing up, we cleaned the 
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day. 
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lot of dishes to do. 
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hand washed some stuff, but my 
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lot from scratch. 
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foods so most things fit into 
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dishwasher safe. 
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during the day, so my mom didn't
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everybody was off at school and 
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Your schedule and your routine 
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were brought up with, so I 
encourage you to experiment and 

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figure out what works for you. 
I'm not the kind of person who 

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naturally cleans as I go. 
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tends to leave things out. 
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But I've grown past that and 
I've realized that it is so much

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easier to wash a couple of 
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There's a tendency to 
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just so much easier to do it 
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A lot of things we procrastinate
on are tasks that might take one

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to two minutes to complete, like
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after you get ready. 
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long commute or whatever, but 
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If not, get up 5 minutes earlier
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And no judgement here. 
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these things that I'm talking 
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older than you and it's taken me
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certain habits. 
This next one I'm kind of off 

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and on the wagon with, but last 
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of the dryer, folded them, hung 
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One of my toxic household habits
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everything and put it in drawers
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Even though whenever I organize 
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most things and then just put 
the small items in drawers, over

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time I end up putting things in 
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hanging up. 
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dresses, but I'm really supposed
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self-imposed rule, I'm really 
supposed to hang up my pants and

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shirts. 
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like pajamas, undergarments, 
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T-shirts. 
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ideally be hanging up because I 
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I need to keep my clothes put 
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clean laundry pile perpetually. 
And last night was kind of a 

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reset for me. 
Not only did I put away the 

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clothes straight out of the 
dryer, but I pulled a lot of 

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things out of the drawers and 
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And then I got rid of a few 
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I admitted to myself that it had
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something and that I didn't want
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That's where a donation box or 
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can help you. 
Because you want decluttering to

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be kind of an, a lifestyle. 
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declutter an area. 
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Maybe you're cleaning out a 
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want to have a system for 
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Just spur The moment you try on 
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realize that you just tried on 
something that you rejected last

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time and that you're probably 
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Toss it in the donation box in 
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Now obviously things like dishes
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clutter from around the house 
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It's what keeps your house 
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But you want to strive to do the
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often. 
So you might want to consider a 

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habit that after you pick up the
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And that may not be necessary, 
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dropping Cheerios everywhere, it
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Or your dogs are tracking in a 
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dirty more often than not. 
You might want to add the habit 

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of sweeping or vacuuming right 
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That one's not going to apply to
everybody, but there might be 

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some some other habit that you 
need to implement, something 

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else that you need to do more 
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I'm talking about cleaning your 
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doing dishes before they pile 
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before you run out of room in 
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Or you're living out of a pile 
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you're trying to get ready to go
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Or maybe you're going a long 
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bedding. 
My habit on bedding is that when

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I've washed all of my husband's 
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been a week, I wash my bedding 
next because I I'm switching the

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clothes from the washer and the 
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The logical next step is to 
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pillowcases into the wash or put
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I just continue that laundry 
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And I'm not usually a weekly 
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have been because I found that 
the washer and dryer a lot of 

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times are in use when I go to do
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So my hampers been kind of 
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My husband and I have enough 
clothing to last us all week and

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so lately I guess I'm just in a 
season of life where I'm washing

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the laundry weekly and then I 
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washed the clothing and towels. 
But you may have heard other 

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episodes where I talk about 
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twice a week or doing a load a 
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It just depends on the season of
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keys to keeping the house clean,
in addition to just changing 

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your habits, is being flexible 
and tweaking your routines. 

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You don't change everything, you
don't reinvent the wheel, you 

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don't quit doing what works. 
But you might tweak something 

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like instead of doing laundry 
every day or twice a week, you 

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do it once a week and you 
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These are just ideas. 
The key is just raising the 

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standard so that your house 
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Dirty laundry doesn't pile up, 
dishes don't pile up as often, 

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and the payoff is that you won't
have as many overwhelming messes

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to deal with. 
You won't feel as overwhelmed. 

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You'll be in a clean 
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You'll go deeper while listening
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house won't be as out of control
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And if you're new to the show or
you're just going through a 

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rough patch, don't beat yourself
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I'm just here to encourage you 
to get back in the saddle and 

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maybe change what isn't working.
One of my biggest motivators for

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keeping my bedroom and closet 
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though visitors don't venture 
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bathroom and they don't see the 
inside of my closet, is getting 

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out the door faster, wearing 
fewer outfits that are repeats 

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because my clothes are organized
and hanging up in the closet and

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I'm able to use all of them. 
And then one of my motivators in

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the kitchen to organize those 
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my cabinets and drawers is being
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when I need them. 
And if you're wondering why it's

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mainly the adults actually 
washing the dishes at our house,

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it's because I don't like things
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I like to be able to find all of
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decide I want to bake bread or 
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have trouble finding things 
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where to put them. 
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who I have putting away clean 
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them away, right? 
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Our current system involves my 
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away the dishes, except when 
it's on the chore list for my 

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daughter to put them away 
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put things away, right? 
I guess I just have a lot of 

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gadgets and a lot of cabinets 
and people can't seem to keep 

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track of where things go. 
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makes it so much easier to cook.
Keeping up on dishes makes it 

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easier to cook. 
No one likes to feel like, well,

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I'm tired and I don't really 
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I've got to spend an hour 
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even begin. 
I mean, that's not the ideal 

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place to be, but we've all been 
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What if when you drag yourself 
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at the end of a busy day, you 
find an empty sink or just a 

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cereal bowl and a spoon in the 
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That's going to make cooking a 
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And in turn, you're going to 
clean as you go because you're 

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starting in a clean environment 
and you're going to want to 

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maintain it. 
And what if when you're 

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listening to My Kitchen 
episodes, you barely have any 

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dishes to wash, so you're 
completing deeper cleaning tasks

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like moving the oven and 
sweeping and mopping under it, 

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Cleaning the inside of your 
refrigerator and your microwave 

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so that when someone comes over,
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Or what if during the bathroom 
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organizing the cupboard under 
the sink because there's not a 

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lot of build up and it only 
takes you a few minutes to clean

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the surfaces in your bathroom? 
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make you feel guilty about the 
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I'm just trying to get you 
excited and motivated about 

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cleaning as you go in every area
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Again, cooking becomes easier, 
getting out the door becomes 

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easier. 
Other people in your household 

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clean up after themselves more 
because you're showing them by 

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example how you want things to 
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Or what about just feeling 
mentally at peace when you're 

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sitting in a clean house, doing 
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and having more time to do 
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Like it says in my intro, I hope
you got a lot done during this 

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episode, whatever you were 
working on. 

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Special thanks to my financial 
supporters who've unlocked bonus

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episodes and are on the full 
program. 

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But even just listening to these
free episodes helps me. 

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I appreciate each and everyone 
of you. 

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And as always, happy cleaning. 
I'll talk to you in the next 

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episode.