What room or area of your home, has to be clean in order for you to maintain your mental health?
That room or area is what I consider to be priority 1.
By setting priority areas within your home, you set, well… priorities 🙂
If you are like me, it is almost impossible to clean and maintain your entire home every day all day. (And really, do you want to? ) Mentally assigning priority areas allows you to know where to start (and where to stop).
If you have time to clean and maintain only one priority area, it should be your priority 1. What I have found is that if I maintain my priority 1 area, it is much easier to maintain the lesser priority areas in my home.
For instance, my priority 1 area is my kitchen. Only my kitchen. The kitchen is the hub of our home. It is where I spend the majority of my time. If it is a mess then I am… a mess (more so than normal!). However, if I maintain the kitchen, it seems easier to maintain the lesser priority areas. Don’t ask me why. I am sure it is a mental thing.
After you assign your priority 1 area, go ahead and assign priority 2, 3 and 4 areas.Â
My priority 2 is my living room. Â Followed by priority 3, which are bathrooms and halls.Â
Laundry room would be priority 4 followed by priority 5 which are bedrooms (bedroom
doors can easily be closed!).
By mentally splitting your home into priority areas, you have created “littles” . And “little” by “little” becomes a…clean(ish) home!