It's amazing what you can accomplish in 15 minutes

 Last week I stayed on top of my housework with little problem. I spent maybe 30 minutes in each room on their assigned day. Then Sunday night, I cleaned (dust, vac, mopped) the room of the day. After that, I spent maybe two minutes in the other rooms doing spot cleaning. Took me roughly 15 minutes doing simple maintaining tasks. 

Maintaining tasks included: giving the toilet a quick scrub, wiping down the bathroom sink, wiping down the kitchen counter, sweeping/Swiffering floors, returning a few items where they belong, and emptying garbage cans.

As someone who longs to be organized, it's refreshing to wake up surrounded by cleanliness and order.

If you take a look around your home before bedtime every evening and do some quick cleaning (toilet, sink, countertops, garbage cans, floor Swiffering/sweeping), when you wake up the following morning you'll feel like you're ahead of the game.

It's really remarkable what you can accomplish in 15 minutes. And the impact on your mood is incredible.

As I'd said in an earlier post, vacuuming the carpet is a spring board to motivate me to clean. As I have cats, and despite brushing them everyday--they love getting brushed so much, they push each other out of the way--the carpet sprouts gobs of fur.

So what helps me stay on top of vacuuming is a good old-fashion carpet sweeper. Those things are worth their weight in gold and don't cost an arm and a leg. 

Confession Time: I broke a vital rule concerning my writing this month. My rule is to concentrate on one project at a time. If I take on more than one writing project simultaneneously, it spells disaster. I'd planned to have the final book in the Amish Englisher Romance series finished by the end of February, but the problem was I hadn't finished the prequel Bouquets and Motorbikes first. 

What always ends up happening when my focus is divided, I start self-sabotaging. That means my brain shuts down, I stress, and in the end my sleeping cycle is wrecked. Because my sleeping cycle is affected, it causes me to sleep through my prime writing hours (the mornings). 

So The Amish Housesitter won't be out by the end of February as I'd said it would be, but now that I've admitted it (confession is great for the soul), getting back on track won't be that difficult. My promise to myself is no more self-sabotage!