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Morning Musing: Smiling when You walk into your Bathroom
Dear Friends,
I know you can't see the importance of shining your sink when the rest
of the house is overwhelming you! But you have to start someplace and
this is where I started.
Go shine your sink and practice keeping shining. When you do this, the
dishwasher will get emptied because you need a place to put your dirty
dishes. You can't put them in that clean and shiny sink after all.
Then your counter tops get clear because the sink is beautiful. Then
the stove says clean me too and before you know it your whole kitchen
is gleaming and all you really did was shine your sink. This doesn't
happen all at once.
If we did it all at once we would crash and burn. You know how you
used to clean your bathroom. We have all done this. Wait till we just
could not stand it another day and then spend 4 hours trying to get
rid of the crusted on gunk. After we had pushed ourselves past our
limit; we don't ever want to clean another bathroom and guess what? We
don't! Crash and burn at it worst. All because we didn't take babysteps.
I did an interview with a magazine once. Sondra has done a story about
us for her little magazine a few years ago. She told me that she had
to clean her bathroom before she called me. She asked me how long it
took me to scrub my tub. I told her 30 seconds and she could not
believe me.
I went on to explain that one week during the month we are in our
Bathroom zone. Every day when I am letting the water drain from the
tub I take my little bathtub scrubby ball and put some of my bath gel
on it and wipe down one side. The next day I would do the other side.
Then the third day I did the bottom of the tub at the front then on
the fourth day I did the bottom at the back. On the fifth day I did
the edge of the tub where I set my bath stuff. Thirty seconds once a
month when we are in this zone and while I am already in the tub is
not much to ask of yourself. You don't have to put on rubber gloves
and wear a mask to clean your tub. It doesn't take harsh chemicals
either. It is the same soap you put on your body that makes the ring
anyway. Soap is Soap! Soap cleans Soap! All you have to do is focus on
doing just a little every day and your bathroom will never look and
feel yucky! If you are not going into your bathroom several times a
day; it could mean that you are not drinking enough water. That is
another essay!
Each time you are in your bathroom put one thing away or throw
something in the trash! While you are sitting on your throne, survey
the landscape to see what you could put away after you have finished.
Don't jump up right then. Oh and if you running out of toilet paper
then let your "do it now" principle kick in! Get out another roll when
you finish. Nothing says I love you like a fresh roll of toilet paper
when you really need it. Who knows you may be blessing yourself by
this action.
Cleaning your bathroom doesn't have to be recipe for Crash and Burn.
Take the babysteps each day and your bathroom will never seem that
dirty again. Practice a "Swish and Swipe" each morning and you are
going to smile every time you walk in there!
Nothing says I love you to you like walking into a clean and shining
bathroom on a daily basis.
FlyLady
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