Many of us fantasize about such changes but very few of us are actually successful at such radical changes.
Radical Change is about immediately changing your habits - a 180 degree turn that is abrupt and life-altering. The challenge of incremental change is that it requires patience and resistance to complacency. Sound familiar? The strength of incremental change is that it is sustainable and manageable. See, the challenge with incremental change is that when the increments of change are small, sometimes they aren’t noticeable, and when they aren’t noticeable it can be easy to become discouraged and/or allow yourself “cheat days.” The floor really doesn’t look that much dirtier when I skip a day of cleaning - so instead of incrementally changing my habits, I’m actually incrementally slipping. BUT I feel myself slipping after just a couple of weeks – going a bit longer between wipe downs. I am confident this plan will work IF I challenge myself to get incrementally better. I swept daily, wiped down counters daily, and finally have a consistently manageable laundry hamper. It helps that my husband does dishes daily (gender norms associated with cleaning are a whole separate post). I followed these suggestions with much success. This consists of 20 minutes of work and 10 minutes of a break and is designed to combat the burnout that comes with marathon cleaning. She also recommends 20/10 cleaning sessions. Similarly, in Unf*ck Your Habitat, Hoffman emphasizes the importance of getting small daily tasks done – starting with making the bed everyday.
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White, How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House’s Dirty Little Secrets Doing them again tomorrow is where the magic will happen.” ― Dana K. “Doing the dishes is the first step of this whole change-your-house process. In How to Manage Your Home without Losing Your Mind, White describes how she finally was able to ditch her slobbish ways by stopping the marathon, binge cleaning sessions and instead focusing on doing one or two non-negotiable things a day – in her case, dishes. The first two books that I read about cleaning were built on a belief in incremental change.
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In the first installment, incremental change is described as: “Making small and consistent progress towards a desired goal.” Think “no zero days” – the notion that even very small, non-remarkable progress everyday can add up to substantial progress over a series of days. While incremental and radical change are most frequently used to describe organizational change, a CBS News series called “Reach Your Goals More Quickly” differentiates between incremental and radical change on an individual, personal basis quite nicely. Rather than go into the specifics of organizing and cleaning (Trust me, you do NOT want cleaning advice from me), I want to spend some time on Incremental versus Radical Change, as it relates to any CHANGE you are looking to make in your life. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo.How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind – Dana K.
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