26 Feb 2008 03:13:59 | Rosana Hart
Cleaning house is one of those things that needs doing again...
and again... and again! How can you make it less of a burden?
When I taught time management classes, one of the things I loved
to teach was the 80-20 rule. It's best explained by examples.
Eighty percent of the time, you wear twenty percent of your
wardrobe. Eighty percent of the phone calls you get come from
twenty percent of your friends. Eighty percent of the dirt is on
twenty percent of the floor. Twenty percent of salespeople make
eighty percent of sales. Okay, sometimes it's 90-10 and
sometimes it's 70-30 but you get the idea.
Eighty percent of the dirt is on twenty percent of the floor?
Hmm, what does that suggest about cleaning your house? Often a
quick pass through the parts of your house that really need it
will make cleaning house much easier. If you are in a hurry, let
the dust behind the sofa and under the table alone and just
clean a swath through the heavy traffic areas. Sooner or later,
you'll get to them as well -- or hire someone else to do a
thorough cleaning occasionally.
You can probably make up lots of examples of the 80-20 rule that
apply to your own ways of cleaning house and of keeping things
picked up. Perhaps eighty percent of the dirty dishes left lying
around come from one person. Perhaps eighty percent of your
frustration with how your house looks could be solved by doing
twenty percent of what you think you should.
About Author :
Rosana Hart tries to put eighty percent of her work time into
the twenty percent of activities that will be most effective.
She tells you about the opportunities for cleaning houses and
offices for a living at her website,
http://www.infoandhelp.com/cleaning/
