1. Set yourself a small goal
Okay, you don't feel like scrubbing the floors all over your home or cleaning up your entire closet. But allow yourself to do only as much as you have enough patience: do not wipe dust everywhere - wipe the most noticeable areas, and you yourself will not notice how it is no longer so lazy to continue and bring the matter completely to end.
The more global the task is, the less strength and motivation will be to complete it. It is better to do not everything that is necessary, but still do, than leave a large-scale general cleaning in unfulfilled plans.
2. Just start
It's corny, but sometimes you just need to start, because this is the hardest part. While there is a long discussion in your head with yourself - do you want to do the cleaning or not, why do you only you, why should you spend your day off, etc. - it is quite possible to start without waiting until you are yourself persuade.
It's like in the saying "the eyes are afraid, but the hands are doing", only "the mind still negotiates with emotions, and the cleaning is done."
3. Think of cleaning as a time for reflection
By and large, there is no need to think about the cleaning itself during its implementation, therefore mental efforts can be spent on thinking through gifts for the New Year or a holiday menu, making a to-do list for tomorrow, coming up with your own image for the holidays and etc.
If you think about all this when your hands are not busy with anything, then most likely you will begin to be distracted by your smartphone or something else. And in4. Get rid of unnecessary things
Of course, it's hard to constantly put things in order and clean up if things are lying around in mountains and cleaning is a continuous transfer of them from place to place. Since the complete decluttering of the house is a long and laborious occupation, then identify several places in the house that are constantly overgrown a mountain of things (shelf, bedside table, cabinet, etc.) - and try to minimize the number of items there regularly, without waiting for a critical situations.
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