Best time for spring cleaning, when is it?
We're going to talk about that today.
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Okay, onto today's show, which is from somebody that wrote into the show, and they wanted
to know when is the best time to do spring house cleaning?
Well, the obviously answer is in the spring, right?
Well, that's not such the obvious answer, because most of the time, in the spring, there's
a lot of other stuff going on.
Spring may not be your best time to do house cleaning for all of your deep cleaning and
pulling stuff out of all your closets, and shelves, and cupboards, and all that stuff.
That may not be your best time.
It may be during the wintertime, when just the kids have all gone back to school, and
there is a hibernation going on, and you're kind of cooped up in the house now, and you're
getting ready to settle down for the winter.
That might be the time that's the best time for you.
So I don't know when your time is, but what I do recommend is that you follow a biorhythm
app, and you're like, "What the heck does biorhythm have to do with spring cleaning?"
It has everything.
Now, biorhythms run off trigonometry.
It's a math system, and it's based on your birthday.
So you can go to your nearest smart phone store, whether it's an Android or an iOS,
and I use Biorhythm-365.
It's a little app, and you type in your birthday, and it tells you how you feel that day.
And it's based your intellectual behaviors, your intuitive behaviors, your physical behaviors.
So it's going to be based on a series of things like do you feel super smart today?
Those are the days that you want to do smart things for your business.
Are there days that you have a lot of physical energy?
On a physically energy day, you're going to want to do your spring cleaning.
You don't want to wait until your biorhythms have tanked.
Then you're going to drag yourself out of bed and force yourself to do your spring house
cleaning, because it's lo and behold, on your calendar, right?
So you want to plan your calendar around the times that you are biorhythmically going to
be on an up cycle, and it is scientifically proven.
It's the same kind of math that says at this certain moment of the day, the sun is going
to set, and the sun is going to rise, and it's eerily accurate, and you're like,
"How did they do that?"
Well, there's as whole pattern and a whole system that's in place,
that determines how that all works.
Now, I'm not smart enough to know how the trigonometry works and how the biorhythms
work, but when I look at them, they are eerily accurate, and I can tell how I feel, and then
I look at the app and I'm like, "Right on target.
It knew.
How did it know?"
Well, I don't know how it knows.
It doesn't matter how it knows, but I plan my activities around that, so that I am my
most productive person.
Now, if you are a female, there is probably a window somewhere, either once a month or
every couple months, maybe it's only once a year, but you just wake up out of a dead
sleep, and for some reason you go to get something, and then you start straightening something,
and the next thing you know, two hours has passed, and you've gone into this deep zone,
and you've started unraveling everything from your cabinets.
You start organizing and putting stuff away, and then you just find that one cupboard led
to the next cupboard, to the fridge, and now you're defrosting the freezer, and you're
doing all these things.
All right, well that is just natural, okay?
We get in these zones, and I don't know when your zone is going to hit you, but when it
hits you, take advantage of it, and promise yourself this, "When I start this project,
I will stay with it until it's finished, through its duration."
So if you're going to yank everything out of the refrigerator, and you're going to yank
everything out of the freezer, and all of the cupboards, stick with that project until
everything is put back away.
Now, a good way to do this is, as you linger, okay, you're wandering through the day, you're
wandering through weeks, it might be weeks or months, and you pass the bathroom every
day, and you say, "Oh, I need to change that light bulb.
Oh, I need to replace this thing.
Oh, I need to clear out those bottom cupboards."
If you're not going to do it right now, that's fine, but make a note.
On your smart phone, there are note apps.
Just make a note.
"I'm going to clear out the bottom bathroom cupboard on the right."
That's on my to-do list when I hit the bathroom in one of those modes of,
"I'm going to clean everything."
So when you get into that cleaning mode, hurry and pull out your list, and look at it really
quickly, and say, "There are six things I've been dying to do in this particular room when
I get this zone," right?
So then you go through and you do those six things, and then you do away with the project,
and you're done until the next spring cleaning zone hits you.
So it doesn't have to be during the spring.
It can be whenever you're well and ready, and like I say, it could be in the middle of the night.
It could be in the middle of the day.
It could be a weekend when you're not particularly doing anything, and it just hits you, and
suddenly you're scrubbing everything in sight, and you're cleaning things, and you're polishing
things up, and you've pulled out the vacuum, and it's just ... It just seems like the thing to do.
So make that time work for you.
And then another thing that I might recommend is pay attention when you shop, because a
lot of us have turned into clutterers.
We have lots and lots of clutter, and we're guilty of what's called impulse purchasing,
so you go to check out at the cashier's counter, and there are all these little displays of fun,
zany items that are just a few bucks, and you're like,
"Oh, that would be so fun to have.
I'll put that in my car," and you buy one forgetting that you have 15 of those in your
car, or scattered around your house that were intended for your car.
So you have all this extra stuff.
Or you found cool clothes that were inside a magazine, or they were the hip thing of
the moment, so you bought them, and you wore them for a couple of weeks,
and then the fad went away.
Then suddenly, you're stuck with a whole closet full of clothes that you'll never use again.
So, the whole purpose of spring cleaning is to declutter our homes and to find harmony
and to find peace in the place that we live.
So is there a right or wrong time to do it?
The right or wrong time to do it is whenever you are inspired to do it, whenever you're
ready to up-level your life for a place of harmony that you want to live in.
That's the time for you to do spring cleaning.
And I do recommend that you follow some kind of a system, so that when you jump into that
zone, that you're not stuck just unraveling everything and making a bigger mess, and then
the zone leaves you, and then you're stranded with all your stuff unraveled.
My suggestion would be to be very specific about how you do it, and say, "Okay, when
I do the closet project, I'm going to yank all the clothes out of the closet, and I'm
going to have four piles.
I'm going to have a donation pile that goes to the Goodwill.
I'm going to have a garbage pile that is just old trash,
dirty, ratty clothes that nobody wants, including me.
And I'm going to have a washing machine pile that goes into washing machine.
Then I'm going to have a pile that goes back in the closet, that is already dry-cleaned
and cleaned already to wear."
You sort everything into those four piles, and then you stick with the project until
all four of those piles are finished, and done, and put away.
Then as soon as you're done with that project, it might be a good idea to close out the projects,
and don't start another big project, because if you stay with a project until it's complete,
you may be cleaning forever.
So, do one project, put a lid on it, and then wait until that zone hits you again, and if
you get really good at starting and finishing projects, it will inspire you the next time
to spend a couple of hours and to dig into a big project, and then to put a lid on it
and be done with it, because you'll know in a couple of hours in the back of your mind,
"Hey, I'm going to be done with this project, and then this area of my life will be up-leveled,"
instead of just unraveling stuff and then hoping the zone will hit you again.
Then when the zone hits you again, you unravel another piece of your life, until your whole
place is in shambles and you're discouraged.
That's not spring cleaning.
All right, so focus on when the time hits you, and if it's a biorhythmic moment where
you're in an up-cycle, jump in, be very specific about what it is you want to accomplish, stick
with the task until it's done, and then put a lid on it and wait until the zone hits you
again, and then go to the next project.
And be thinking right now what the next project is, and make notes as you go.
That's the best way to do spring house cleaning.
All righty. That's my two cents for today, and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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