Your House Isn’t the Problem – Your Cleaning Approach Might Be

The Minimal Mom

Dawn Madsen

Self-improvement, Education:how To, Education, How To

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The cleaning gurus make it look so easy! Why can’t I keep up? Is your house the problem, or is it your cleaning method? Listen in is as Dawn talks with Sarah McGlory about her adaptive cleaning method that really works! IN THIS EPISODE: 0:00 About Sarah 5:05 the correlation between the amount of support and cleanliness 6:28 how adaptive cleaning came about 9:40 (GEM) The basics of low capacity lists 13:25 - how hot mess mom culture failed us 20:00 the inventory connection 26:05 - about perfectionism 29:45 - the power of small steps ABOUT SARAH MCGLORY: Sarah is an advocate for adaptive cleaning, offering practical solutions for those who struggle with traditional cleaning methods. She focuses on flexible routines and strategies that adapt to individual needs, making home care more manageable and less overwhelming for people with busy lives or unique challenges. LINKS: https://www.sarahmcglory.com/ https://www.sarahmcglory.com/product-page/adaptivecleaningsystem https://www.youtube.com/c/SarahMcGloryHome https://www.facebook.com/SarahMcGloryHome Welcome to The Official Minimal Mom Podcast. Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind following? It helps podcast apps recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn

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0:00.0	You just need to get everything clean and then you can start over and then you're going to have the ability to keep up with these routines.
0:09.0	It's never worked. I've been doing it for, you know, decades. It's never worked, but still I'm like, there is no other way.
0:16.0	I just have to like push. And then all of a sudden I'm like this is ridiculous what if I can't have a totally
0:22.4	clean home what if that's okay welcome to the minimal mom podcast today Don is joined by
0:28.1	Sarah McClory Sarah is a busy mom to five and small business owner all while managing
0:33.4	multiple autoimmune diseases she understands the challenge of having more tasks than time and energy
0:39.0	allow. As a result, she has created strategies to maximize her capabilities, which she shares
0:45.1	through her adaptive cleaning system and online videos, advocating for those with chronic physical
0:50.5	and mental health conditions. Well, Sarah, I feel like we could just be such good friends.
0:55.1	I was, what you wrote here, I want to read this real quick because it just resonated with me so
0:58.9	much. You said, I felt like a failure in my whole adult life because my home was always a disaster.
1:04.0	At a certain point, I realized I needed to stop comparing myself to the cleaning gurus I saw
1:08.6	on social media. They had endless energy and perfect homes,
1:12.5	and I had chronic pain and mismatched furniture. I decided to adapt to my time and energy
1:18.0	needs rather than attempting to force myself to follow unrealistic expectations. I created a system
1:23.6	called adaptive cleaning, enabling me to stay organized and not spend hours cleaning.
1:28.8	Now I want to help lift the stress from your shoulders, so you also have more time.
1:33.5	That just resonated with me so much because that's why I found minimalism about nine years ago
1:38.5	was because I felt like a loser. I felt like I wasn't doing anything right.
1:42.4	I at least knew from my past experience that there was
1:45.0	no cleaning routine or printable that was going to save me from myself. I just hadn't been able to
1:49.7	stick with any of it. So tell us a little bit about yourself, your family, and definitely more
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