Clean Enough to be Healthy / Messy Enough to be Happy:
I LOVE this phrase! It is one of the personal mantras I use the most. My perfectionism and anxiety always comes to a head when I try to clean. I never really learned how to clean much growing up so as an adult it was always incredibly overwhelming.
One of the things I would get hung up on is... how clean is clean? Where do you draw the line between landfill and sterile? It sounds like a weird question, and maybe it’s obvious to lot of people, but for me it always resulted in focusing on unimportant details and not actually getting anything done.
This phrase, along with “It doesn’t have to be perfect, just better than it was” (which I will probably do soon as well), have both made it much easier to focus on what really matters when it comes to cleaning.
Now if only I could get off my lazy butt and practice it more!
