Welcome to Aslub Comes Clean, the podcast. I'm Dana Kay White. I blog over at Aslub Comes

Clean.com. That's where I share my personal deslubification process. So I figure out ways

to keep my own home under control. I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies

that actually work in real life for real people. I'm also the author of two books, How to

Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind, and decluttering at the speed of life, not

light life. Anyway, thanks for joining me today. It's podcast number 217, and I'm back

from my summer break. I've missed you guys. I mean, not really, really like crying about

it or anything, but it's nice to talk to you guys again. I really loved. I met several

podcast listeners, hey guys, over the summer. And it always just amazes me the, like the

real relationships, you know, that form through this crazy modern phenomenon where I get

to talk into a microphone and you guys get to listen to me talk, bizarre to me. Anyway,

we are talking about, I think I'm going to call this podcast. It's never always all or

nothing. I looked it up to see if I've already titled a podcast that before, but hey, whatever

I can yak about it some more if I have, but which I don't think I have. Anyway, basically

I am talking about the all or nothing mentality, how I've mostly gotten over that with my

whole house issues. You know, I used to view my house as a project because projects are

things where I actually feel competent and confident. And I like to break down projects.

I like to analyze, you know, the best way to get it done and then tackle each of the steps

until it's completely done. So I because of my project brain, I didn't know that I was

treating my house as a project, meaning, okay, I'm going to get it completely clean, start

to finish, get it perfect. And then someday I'll, you know, then maintain it. Except

then when I never got it actually perfectly clean, then I would never actually start the

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