This is a term that I do not actually put into practice. Thanks to OCD, I clean all the time. Every day. And most weeks there is some "deep cleaning" where curtains and/or rugs and/or closets and/or rooms and/or dogs/cats get stripped and washed thoroughly. It's not a seasonal thing for me, it's an all-the-time-all-year kind of thing.
All that aside, today's post isn't about cleaning in the physical sense [we all know you didn't come to check out this blog today because you wanted to know my tricks on folding a fitted sheet or how to keep a toilet clean 24/7/365], it's more about clearing the cobwebs of life out of your mind, shedding your tough skin of acceptance for other people's bad behavior and to stop doing things that don't make you happy so you can start making changes towards the positive.
Whew! That sounds like a tall order, I know. I'm struggling with it myself these days.
I'm in the middle of making a pro-active list of things that aren't making me happy or hindering my advance in the quest for eternal organization/cleanliness/health. Written on the other side of that list is the way to resolve these issues and what steps have to be taken in order to "clear out" the path to success.
All of this might sound like it came out of some kind of cliche self-help book. I can assure you that it hasn't, but I've definitely read enough of that psycho-therapy babble to write volumes myself. I'm just trying to actually put what I've read into practice.
Basically, it comes down to this: "If you don't like it, change it." So to that I say: "I'm trying." Which always brings me back to another favorite Yoda quote: "Do or do not. There is no 'try'." Amen, little green Jedi man, Amen.
And what a better time to start "doing" than Spring, the time of rebirth and regrowth!
And cleaning... can't forget the cleaning.
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