When I decide to clean house, I’m usually in a “get ‘er done” mood. I start flying through the house, shoving things away, giving them away, throwing them away! But I get distracted very easily by everything that needs to be dealt with, and sometimes I really want to remain focused on just one area of the house.
Here’s a good way to remain stationary: if you have a laptop, boombox CD/tape player, or a computer positioned near where you want to clean:
Play an audio book on tape/CD, or an archived radio show, or a youtube interview, etc. on a subject that’s fascinating to you.
(To search out some good listening material, I like to google a favorite person or subject along with the word “interview”.)
The key is to keep yourself in one spot by making the audio something very interesting and something you can only hear in the place where you’re cleaning. (So using anything portable like an iPod will defeat the purpose, ’cause then you’ll wander!)
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Hubby and I love NPR, so while we clean we like to listen to the latest Car Talk, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, This American Life, or dig into the Prairie Home Companion archives.
And here’s an interesting interview that kept me glued to the kitchen recently:
The Importance of Grounding (“Earthing”) Ourselves. Dr. Joe Mercola & Dr. James Oschman discuss the health benefits of doing what our ancestors did naturally: walking barefoot on the earth.
What do you like to listen to that keeps you glued to one spot?
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