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A short collection of gentle advice that invites us to consider: in the times of our lives where we can't do it all, what should we do?
The heuristics of this book are not presented in a prescriptive fashion. Instead, it's a handy guide of options, ideas, and tricks for getting through terrible times because there's plenty of things we can't put on hold. It also encourages us to take a bit of pressure off ourselves: get rid of the donation bag that's sat in your closet for 3 years. Hire a cleaner if and when you can afford them to stop agonizing over the state of your bathroom. Use paper plates if dishes are a no go. That kind of thing.
This advice isn't ideal and does not reflect how I want my best self to act. But that's the point. When we're drowning in other things, we can't be our best selves and we definitely can't guilt or shame out way into it.
There were a few mental framings I really liked. I'm trying to adopt the thinking that every room has 5 things, and here they are in the order in which they should be attended to:
1) trash. It needs to go. It's a health hazard.
2) dishes. Put them in the sink.
3) laundry. That's what hampers and baskets are for.
4) things that have a place but are not in their place. Bring them to their place.
5) things that don't have a place (gotta find them a place!).
There were also examples of how to make certain tasks easier to start or schedule, how to prune away tasks when you can only function on a "essentials only" basis, and how to divorce morality from cleanliness.
Recommended if you feel like you're never able to keep up with keeping your space clean, suffer from crushing emotions that keep you from doing what "needs" to get done, or otherwise just need to be a bit kinder to yourself. 3.75 stars on SG rounded up to 4 on GR.
The heuristics of this book are not presented in a prescriptive fashion. Instead, it's a handy guide of options, ideas, and tricks for getting through terrible times because there's plenty of things we can't put on hold. It also encourages us to take a bit of pressure off ourselves: get rid of the donation bag that's sat in your closet for 3 years. Hire a cleaner if and when you can afford them to stop agonizing over the state of your bathroom. Use paper plates if dishes are a no go. That kind of thing.
This advice isn't ideal and does not reflect how I want my best self to act. But that's the point. When we're drowning in other things, we can't be our best selves and we definitely can't guilt or shame out way into it.
There were a few mental framings I really liked. I'm trying to adopt the thinking that every room has 5 things, and here they are in the order in which they should be attended to:
1) trash. It needs to go. It's a health hazard.
2) dishes. Put them in the sink.
3) laundry. That's what hampers and baskets are for.
4) things that have a place but are not in their place. Bring them to their place.
5) things that don't have a place (gotta find them a place!).
There were also examples of how to make certain tasks easier to start or schedule, how to prune away tasks when you can only function on a "essentials only" basis, and how to divorce morality from cleanliness.
Recommended if you feel like you're never able to keep up with keeping your space clean, suffer from crushing emotions that keep you from doing what "needs" to get done, or otherwise just need to be a bit kinder to yourself. 3.75 stars on SG rounded up to 4 on GR.