Hey guys, I'm Kendra. Welcome to the lazy genius podcast. Here I'm going to help you be

a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Today's episode,

the lazy genius cleans the house. Okay, so usually I have a pitch trying to, you know, kind of set

you up for what's coming, convince you of something. Today I'm doing that for myself because the pitch

is I don't have one because I'm trying to convince myself to clean the house. So we'll have a little

therapy session together. In the playbook today, it's pretty simple. We're going to talk about why

cleaning is the worst and then the 10 principles of keeping it home. All right, so why is cleaning the

house so stupid lame? Some of you really actually like to clean your house and I wish I could be you,

but I have a pretty negative relationship with it and I know that a lot of you do too. I think for

the most part, it comes down to I would rather spend my time doing other things. But we could say that

about just about anything everybody. This is one of the hardest places for me to be a responsible

mature human being is to say, okay, I can spend 20 minutes sweeping my floor or whatever the task

might be, but it just feels like such a chore, such a drudgery that getting the motivation and

the momentum going to do it feels gross. And perhaps one of the bigger components of that problem

is what happens when we fail, right? What happens if we have the cleaning schedule and we don't

follow through with it regularly? What happens if we start to create a rhythm of keeping our house

clean and tidy and welcoming to the people who come in its doors? But then we have a spell where we

don't do that. And we feel like we're failing those people who are coming through our doors. There

is a lot of value and self-worth to attach, I think, for some of us to having a clean house. And so

rather than having that clean house and then failing, we just say, you know what? I'm just not one

of those people. I just don't keep my house clean. I've said that so many times. I've said when people

are coming over, they're like, oh, don't clean up for me. Like, I'm not going to clean up for you.

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