Choose a Task From The Chore List and Complete it

Habit #24 in my 30 day journey

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Here’s a great productivity tip you rarely hear mentioned. Procrastinate all cleaning projects. If you vacuum the rug today it will just need doing again soon. Why scrub the toilet daily or weekly when every other week, once a month, or only when you can’t stand the smell anymore, is an option?

You can free up loads of time with this clever hack but unfortunately, you will be living in filth at some point.

Moderately clean and orderly is best for my mental and physical health, but I struggle with the balance between putting things off because there are always more important things to be done, and spending all my time cleaning.

I’ve tried various cleaning schedules in the past and none of them really work well for me.

This habit would have showed up much earlier in the month, but I was struggling with how to work it into a daily habit.

Here is my plan. I’ve made a list of cleaning chores that need to be done regularly but not daily. This includes things like vacuum the stairs, clean the fish tank, mop the kitchen floor, dust.

Each day I will choose an item off the list and get it done. Hopefully I will find the flexibility of this plan easier than the rigidity of a clean bathrooms on Monday, dust on Tuesday, etc. approach.

I’ll let you know how it works out for me.