Today I felt that small twinge of motivation to start cleaning so you better believe I latched on to that feeling and didn’t let go until the dishes were washed, laundry was done, floors were cleaned and rugs were vacuumed.
One thing I found to help me, whenever I feel the need to clean but am overwhelmed by the amount of cleaning needs doing, is to just break it down into smaller segments. Could be spacially, thematically, whatever. If I want to clean everything at once, I’ll probably end up cleaning nothing, so I just pick something. One time it was just collecting the plastic bottles in my apartment for the deposit. Didn’t collect the cans and glass bottles, though. Another time I reorganized and cleaned just my little walk in closet. And I’ve got on my to do list for sometime these next few days to do all the recycling paper I’ve got laying around. Doing it like this helps me not feel drained for weeks after the big clean up job. I still gotta test it long term, been only doing it for a little over a week or so, but it should hopefully result in a cleaner apartment.
My problem is that I usually when start cleaning something I get into total hyperfocus mode and start cleaning for hours. And then I’m depressed and in bed for the next few days… don’t know how to just do a little thing at a time, I always feel the urge to do more once I’ve started
Today I felt that small twinge of motivation to start cleaning so you better believe I latched on to that feeling and didn’t let go until the dishes were washed, laundry was done, floors were cleaned and rugs were vacuumed.
I fully expect not to feel this again for weeks.
Either this, procrastination cleaning, or someone-is-coming-over-in-10-minutes cleaning.
There is no other way to clean.
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Sometimes I just sit an look at the mess hoping that looking at it will start to annoy me enough to get that spark.
Sometimes it even works
If you’re still in the zone, I meant to clean my apartment this weekend… but got distracted.
One thing I found to help me, whenever I feel the need to clean but am overwhelmed by the amount of cleaning needs doing, is to just break it down into smaller segments. Could be spacially, thematically, whatever. If I want to clean everything at once, I’ll probably end up cleaning nothing, so I just pick something. One time it was just collecting the plastic bottles in my apartment for the deposit. Didn’t collect the cans and glass bottles, though. Another time I reorganized and cleaned just my little walk in closet. And I’ve got on my to do list for sometime these next few days to do all the recycling paper I’ve got laying around. Doing it like this helps me not feel drained for weeks after the big clean up job. I still gotta test it long term, been only doing it for a little over a week or so, but it should hopefully result in a cleaner apartment.
My problem is that I usually when start cleaning something I get into total hyperfocus mode and start cleaning for hours. And then I’m depressed and in bed for the next few days… don’t know how to just do a little thing at a time, I always feel the urge to do more once I’ve started
Yeah, I guess we’re sorta at opposite ends of the spectrum here
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