387: In Theory, Your House Will Never Improve; Reality is Where it Changes

A Slob Comes Clean

Dana K White

Declutter, To, Home, Messy, Routines, Housekeeping, Clean, Cleaning, How, Organizing, Kids & Family, Decluttering, A, House

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We (me especially, but also so many of my listeners) are great at theorizing. At predicting. At being super logical. We're intelligent people.

But when we theorize about house stuff like home maintenance and decluttering, putting our theories into practice isn't so fun, so we tend to keep theorizing some more. But if we don't move the theories into reality, the house never actually improves. Reality is the only place where things actually happen.

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0:00.0	Welcome to A Slobcams Clean, the podcast. I am Dana Kay White. I share my personal
0:05.3	deslabification process as I figure out ways to keep my own home under control.
0:10.8	I share the truth about cleaning and organizing strategies that actually work in real life
0:16.2	for real people, people who don't love cleaning and organizing. Thanks for joining me today.
0:22.4	This is podcast number 387 and I'm calling it in theory your house will never improve.
0:30.7	Reality is where it changes. Yeah, if you can hear my AC going I'm sorry I tried I tried to record
0:39.6	this without it and it's just still hot in Texas. Hopefully by the time this actually comes out
0:45.2	later this week it won't be so hot in Texas. I am about done with all of that and I've been trying
0:51.8	to record without the AC going and I just can't do it. I just can't do it. I mean y'all are
0:56.3	important to me but there's a limit to how important y'all are to me and sweating is the limit.
1:04.6	I just anyway and so and then my recording messed up and wasn't recording half of what I was saying
1:11.9	and so then I was like I'm done and if I have to start this again we're doing it with the AC on
1:16.7	and oh well okay. All right so we're talking though about in theory your house will never improve
1:21.7	reality is where it changes. Theory that's what you think maybe what you assume when I began to
1:29.6	change my house I moved from theory into reality. I went from thinking about what would and could work
1:42.0	and what might work and why it couldn't work in my house. I went from researching and considering and
1:54.9	trying to come up with every scenario and think it through and blah blah and yada yada. I
2:02.8	stopped doing that and I just started doing my dishes. I stopped trying to figure out the very best
2:11.0	way to do the dishes the very best method the very best routine the very best schedule the very best
2:19.0	of stuff to do with and I just started doing the dishes and all the years of thinking and all the
2:26.9	years of considering and all the years of theorizing my house didn't actually change but when I
2:34.8	just started doing the dishes my house changed. It's something that has made a big difference for me
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