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It's amazing what a clean house can do for a mind. How it can make sitting with a cup of tea seem so much more relaxing. How much easier it can make focusing on everything else. https://sanescholar.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/franklin-d-roosevelt/
"The only limits to our realizations of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'll stare at the mess in the house, the dirty dishes, the dirty laundry, the folded laundry, dust, the ring on the toilet bowl. These are all things that occur in any household. On repeat. Over and over again. Sometimes, it's maddening. The mess. The chores.
There's good news though!
When you go to bed with the sink and counters cleared and clean, you get to wake up with them looking that same way.
When you go to bed with the sink and counters cleared and clean, you get to wake up with them looking that same way.
When something is cleaned, you know that it is that way because you stared at a mess and made a decision. Obviously, it's Roosevelt wasn't talking about the waltzes made around the house to clean hither and thither as messes are made on the daily.
The quote still stands to reason though that we can stare at a mess. We can look at a mess and think, 'this will never get done.' 'This is a disaster, and so am I.' Any cleaned dish on the rack is a feat! Clean a dish and that's one less dish to clean as you progress.
Clean one thing, and it's one spot that is now clean and no longer needs to be stared at.
These are small things, of course, in the grand scheme of things, but to some people, myself included, they can seem like great hurdles. Mentally gathering oneself to do anything can be huge, and one thing can lead to others. Take out the trash.
Gather trash in every room and get it out of the house. Move all the books gathered about throughout the house back into their places on the shelves in the office. Put up the laundry.
It's amazing what a clean house can do for a mind. How it can make sitting with a cup of tea seem so much more relaxing. How much easier it can make focusing on everything else.
I do not do any chores on Sundays. None. So, I'll find myself scurrying about on Fridays and Saturdays to hang and sort clothes, chase around dirty dishes and clear the sink.
My Sundays have been much more relaxing since realizing what happens when I clean everything prior to that day of rest. I can actually rest. Find a time to nap while the baby naps. There's nothing that needs done. I can focus at mass.
Relax with my husband without constantly looking at the basket of laundry or the rack of clothes still drying because I waited too late to hang them.
This isn't a post to get you to mass clean your house, though. This post is to tell you that doing one small thing can mean that you're one step away from a bigger thing. One dish can lead to two which can lead to five.
Start small. End big.
Yours,
Clare
Start small. End big.
Yours,
Clare
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