I am not perfect. My house is not perfect. My kids are not perfect.
My goal is for us to make forward progress each day. Some days we stumble and fall. Then we get back up and try again.
If you have problems getting motivated to bless your house because you don’t have time or energy or want to do it perfect, I want you to tell yourself, “Good enough is good enough.”
By this I mean, if you do a quick dust of your house, that it is good enough. You don’t have to move every single thing to dust every week. Dust around your decorative items. Once a month, you can do a detail dusting and move the decorative items around.
You can use this same philosophy with vacuuming the house and sweeping. Hit the high traffic areas once a week. Once a month, do a detailed vacuuming job. That’s when you move furniture and get underneath your furniture.
Once a week, do a quick mop unless you have small children. Then you might need to do a quick mop daily, if they are in the floor a lot.
How about the bathroom? You can do a daily wipe down of the shower/tub, sinks and counter, and clean the toilet in less than 2 minutes. I have timed myself. I do this every single morning after my shower. That means no more deep cleaning my bathroom.
Everything I have talked about above boils down to setting up routines and making small steps forward. The goal is to just do them, so there is time to have fun and enjoy life! Once you get into these habits, you can do them in minutes a day or in a minutes each week. It’s all in your perspective. Banish those negative thoughts.