Hi everyone, Ronnie here. Welcome to Clean with me. This is the seventh episode and the title of this episode is Getting Out of a Slump.

So before we really get into it, I encourage you to freshen up, at least wipe off that makeup from under your eyes from the night before, or is that

just me that does that? Put on something presentable, run a brush through your hair. For you,

it may be different. Do what it takes to feel presentable. Maybe have a cup of coffee or a smoothie

or whatever gets you going in the morning, light a candle, all that good stuff to where you're

in the right mindset to get something done around the house. But if you're in a slump, it might be

kind of hard to get started. So one of the ways that I get started is just committing to 15 minutes. I'll set a timer for 15

minutes and just see how much I can accomplish. And I use a whole house approach, but I typically

start in the kitchen. So I won't spend the entire 15 minutes in the kitchen if I'm wanting to only spend 15

minutes cleaning so I'll spend maybe 10 minutes in there and then five on the rest of the house

and just see how much I can get done now that's not enough really to get everything that I want

done but sometimes that's enough to get me out of a

slump to get, you know, I start the dishwasher, I wipe down surfaces, sweep, vacuum my carpets,

or put stuff away, just whatever I can do. And then oftentimes at the end of the 15 minutes,

I do want to continue more often than not.

But it's kind of a mind trick where you tell yourself, I can at least just spend 15 minutes.

I'm not really interested in cleaning my house today.

I've got a lot on my mind.

But hey, I'm going to spend 15 minutes on it.

And then you're probably going to end up going beyond that, maybe listening to another podcast episode or another music playlist. But just

start out with that 15 minutes if you're having trouble even getting started.

Another way to get out of a slump is to think about how keeping your house clean and organized will help some of the other areas in your life.

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