Cleaning House (Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

I'd say I have a love-hate relationship with cleaning, but that implies that there is a part of me that loves cleaning. There isn't. I like having cleaned and having a clean home, but I seldom enjoy the actual cleaning part.

ADHD tends to not make cleaning any easier. Time blindness makes me think most of the cleaning tasks I need to do are going to take forever. I have a natural propensity for clutter, and that clutter often fades into the background of what I notice - so I just stop seeing that stack of mail on my counter.

Today we're going to be looking at why we should stop treating cleaning our house like a project. Ways that we can make consistent cleaning easier and also how we can get rid of some of the junk that has accumulated in our homes.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Stop thinking of cleaning your house as a project - we've got to understand that cleaning is about the small tasks that we do consistently that is going to keep our house clean.
Work on creating that routine of small tasks that you can do every day to improve the base level clean of your house - focus on starting small at first. Think about what you can do in the morning and what you can do right before you go to bed.
Time your cleaning tasks so that you know how long they actually take to do - a lot of the tasks that we put off doing actually take way less time than we think they do.
Use temptation bundling and listen to a podcast while cleaning so that you can stay motivated while tidying up.
Make sure everything in your house has a place to live - it doesn't have to be an exact spot, but if you know where to put something then you won't waste mental energy figuring out where stuff needs to go when picking up.
Spend some time decluttering your house by asking better questions about the objects you are thinking of getting rid of - if we can identify the reason we want to keep something it makes it easier to pare down what we have.

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0:00.0	This is an ad by BetterHelp. Think about the people who inspire you most. Guess what? They don't have all the
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0:32.2	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.
0:41.9	On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.
0:49.2	I'd like to say I have a love-hate relationship with cleaning, but that implies that there is part of me
0:54.7	that loves cleaning. There isn't. I like having cleaned and having clean home, but I seldom
1:00.4	enjoy the actual cleaning part. ADHD tends to not make cleaning any easier. Time blindness makes me
1:07.3	think most of the cleaning tasks I need to do are just going to take forever.
1:16.8	I have a natural propensity for clutter, and that clutter often fades into the background of what I notice.
1:19.7	So I just stop seeing that stack of mail on my counter.
1:24.8	Today we're going to be looking at why we should stop treating cleaning our house like a project,
1:28.1	ways that we can make consistent cleaning easier, and also how we can get rid of some of the junk that has accumulated in our homes. If you'd like to follow
1:32.7	along with the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash cleaning house.
1:40.2	Before we get started, I'd also like to take a moment to let everyone know about the hacking your ADHD, Patreon.
1:46.3	While the podcast will always remain free for everyone to listen to, it isn't free to produce.
1:51.3	If you enjoy the show and will like to help support it, here's your chance.
1:54.5	And there's some great perks.
1:56.3	For example, at the $10 a month level, I'm going to be releasing bonus content every month.
2:00.6	This month, I put up the full interview I had with Carrie Gormley about my first year of
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