How To Manage Interruptions While You're Cleaning
by: Zack Bradley on Sat, 25 Sep 2010 at: 2:47 PM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
Ever since I started my career as a Specialist Cleaner 35 years ago, I have constantly learned more and more things that professional cleaners do that makes a noticeable difference in the time clearing clutter eats up and in the quality of the output. Enumerated below are some more ways that would help you clean your life in an easier way.
Clearing clutter while outsmarting interruptions
It's the same old aggravating story: you get right in the middle of something and someone knocks on the door, the kids start to shout, the phone rings, something breaks, you run out of supplies, or you stumble across something that you have to discontinue what you're doing to handle or deal with. You may term them as distractions, but from a personal standpoint, I look at them as my housework's worst enemy. Interruptions happen in every activity, but housework has such a humble status, people will deem you not really occupied and think nothing of asking you to bring to a halt at their convenience. Life just won't go on hold while we clean. If I give in to all the disturbance, I'll end up being discouraged and suffering from a several loss of efficiency.
Here are the top 3 things you can do to rule interruptions:
1.Make use of your declutter tools if everyone is busy playing, eating or sleeping. It's exactly the traffic time. You can clear clutter during the so-called "rush hours" - the most popular to and from times, and you can count on losing an hour to interruptions (slowdowns and stops) - or you can choose to go a bit later or earlier or by a little different route and cover the same miles in 15 minutes. Find those times, grab the bucket and run with it.
2. Clean in small time fragments - Cleaning doesn't always have to be one giant project or a long session. Allocate lesser time on cleaning Some of the best cleaning sessions I've done were all completed within just a modest amount of time. Ten to fifteen-minute blocks of time are way harder to disrupt than a 3-hour time fragment that you have set aside. It is all about wise budgeting of your time. If you know how to use time wisely, you may never need to spend one full Saturday cleaning!
Don't yield - simply say no. For the most part, interruptions aren't obligatory like so many of us think. A good example is people running up to the phone if it rings like as if they were possessed. The fact of the matter is, there have only been a few instances of emergency calls. If I'm right up on a ladder painting, or in the middle of pouring cement, and someone comes by or calls, stopping would be a real problem. Or if I'm on a job where stopping and then reassembling everything would double the work, I just keep on going.
Here's a little secret about disturbance while clearing clutter: If you learn to say NO, people will discontinue their impositions and show consideration for your time accordingly. It is you who creates the ambiance for the amount of interruptions in your schedule. You can rule it. Demand appreciation of the value of your time - it works!
About the Author
Zach Bradley runs the popular website Reduce Clutter.co. Want to learn more expert advice on how to eliminate clutter in 7 days or less? Discover the Top 10 Secrets That Will Help you Remove All the Clutter in your Home Permanently *free ecourse* at http://www.reduceclutter.co/
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