It’s a Sunday morning, the birds are singing and the sun is shining. You have just had a lovely lay in after a long week at work and you are finally starting to unwind from that long stressful week you have just had. All of a sudden, the realisation that the hoovering and dusting needs doing. You look around and see a pile of dirty dishes and a mountain of dust and dog hair. The feeling of dread consumes your body and in that painful moment you have zero motivation to complete your domestic cleaning chores. We have all experienced this right?
Well, do not fear as I have 5 simple ways that could help you get through that Sunday morning cleaning nightmare.
The first, solution is to listen to music. Music is a great way to get you into the mood for cleaning. I would recommend upbeat music as this will hopefully help you to be more productive and get those cleaning tasks completed more quickly.
Do it with a friend? A trusted friend is sometimes a far better motivator than anything else. If a friend is coming over at a set time, that means you are more likely to be up and ready to start cleaning earlier then what would otherwise be the case. In addition, cleaning is far more enjoyable when you are sharing the pain with a friend.
One of the best ways to motivate yourself is to have some sort of reward system. For example, after tidying the living room reward yourself with a 5 minute break or after cleaning the house go watch that box set you’ve been trying to catch up on all week.
Share the chores. Whether you live with family, fellow students or housemates, share the burden of domestic cleaning. Find out whose strengths are what, such as yours might be dusting whilst your brother could be a pro at tidying.
Spread it out over a week. Instead of leaving all that dusting, hovering and general cleaning to be done all in one go, spread it out. If domestic cleaning tasks are spread out over the course of a week then cleaning becomes much more manageable and less time consuming.
If all of this fails then pay for someone to do it for you!