308: Maintaining or Maintaining Progress
A Slob Comes Clean
Dana K White
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
“Maintenance” can feel pointless when the house is in a state you do NOT want to maintain. But re-framing this concept as “maintaining progress” works better for my brain. I like progress, and I don’t like when it slips away, so maintaining definitely doesn’t feel pointless. Mentioned: 14 Days to Opening Your Front Door to […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hi y'all, it's Dana. If you're listening to older episodes, I am coming to you from the future. |
| 0:04.9 | April of 2023 to be exact, I'm so excited that my new podcast host allows me to do this. |
| 0:11.1 | Since I know many of you who listen are listening to earlier episodes or you're skipping around, |
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| 0:53.6 | to learn more. Again, that's aslabcomesclean.com-take now back to our regularly scheduled programming. |
| 1:02.3 | Welcome to AslabcomesClean, the podcast. I'm Dana K. White. I blog over at aslabcomesclean.com. |
| 1:08.8 | That is where I share my personal deslabification process. As I figure out ways to keep my own |
| 1:13.0 | home under control, I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work, |
| 1:19.0 | like in real life for a real people, people who don't love cleaning and organizing. |
| 1:23.8 | Thanks for joining me today. This is podcast number 308. I am calling it maintaining or maintaining |
| 1:33.0 | progress. There's a difference. Yet, sometimes I think that those of us who struggle, or especially |
| 1:42.0 | I'm thinking of before I understood the value of what other people referred to as maintenance tasks, |
| 1:50.5 | I would hear the word maintaining. I would be like, oh, well, what's the point of maintaining? |
| 1:59.9 | It just didn't even... People would talk about, oh, it's all about maintaining. It's all about, |
| 2:04.4 | you know, just regular maintenance stuff. Why would I maintain what my house looks like right now? |
| 2:11.8 | Like, it just didn't make any sense to focus on maintaining when, which is a weird word, |
| 2:18.8 | the more that you say it, I'm just telling you. Anyway, but what is the point of focusing on |
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