Welcome to A Slob Comes Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at A Slob Comes

Clean.com. That's where I share my personal deslabification process. As I figure out ways

to keep my own home and or control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies

that actually work in real life for people. People who don't love cleaning and organizing.

I am calling this podcast number 199. Can you believe we're about to hit 200 podcasts?

Minus a few when I'm misnumbered here and there. But anyway, I'm calling this one Getting

Others on Board with cleaning up the house or something like that. But the main focus

is getting others on board. Anyway, I'm answering a question that I got that has a lot of

layers to it. So I'm going to be talking about multiple different layers of that. I'm

going to say this is about my least favorite subject to talk about because I don't focus

on this. I focus on myself, what I am doing and what I'm not doing. Because if there

is one thing I have learned through life, I'm sorry. Did I say I have learned this? I

meant that I continue to have to learn again and again, even though I think I've learned

it and then all of a sudden it turns out I haven't learned it at all. And that is I

am the only person I can control. I am the only person whose thoughts and actions I can

control. And because I can't control any other person, not even my children, right? Because

I can't control anyone other than myself. I cannot put expectations on them that they

could only meet if I was to control them as robots, right? I am just going to be honest.

I feel like even if I had a robot, I wouldn't be able to control it. Anyway, I don't know.

This is not a science fiction podcast in case you're new here. But anyway, so the reason

I don't like talking about this is because I only talk about what I am doing and what

I am not doing and figuring out why I'm not doing things and figuring out how I can make

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