Agnese Rudzate

September 25, 2019March 9, 2020

Tidy your house in 30 minutes.

Tidy your house in 30 minutes!

Specially useful when your guests are soon to be at your doorstep

A quick swipe over sometimes can be exactly what you need, but I suggest you don’t make it your habit. As a result things on the surface will look great, but under everything will still pile up. Therefore I hope these tips will lead you to deeper cleaning once you see how much you can actually achieve in such a short amount of time.

At the end of the day, if it takes you 30 minutes to sprint through the house to make yourself and your guests more comfortable, then go for it!

1.Get clear in how big of a mess you’re really in. Go through all the rooms, but do not do this empty handed. In one hand take a bin bag for all the rubbish you see around and in other hand take a bowl or something to put dirty dishes in (they tend to appear in mystical places). Be critical – everything that should be thrown out needs to go in to the bin bag without hesitation.

2. Every room that you enter OPEN THE WINDOW, because fresh air will keep you motivated and change the energy + you will get rid of dirty air. Now take a deep breath in and let’s continue.

Fresh air lightens the mood and changes the energy in your house

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3. Put all the little things that are just lying around your house in their places. Don’t worry if that take too much time, you can put them all in one drawer or a bag for later sorting. You can use this tactic only when in rush, because it is a dangerous habit to change later.

P.S. If you forget about those little things, remember about them a week later or do not want to look at them anymore, most likely they have served the time and can be given to people who would appreciate them more. As an alternative, they can be thrown out so they could not bother you again.

4. After going through the rooms and collecting garbage and dirty dishes, put those things where they belong – bing bag in a bin, dirty dishes in the washing machine. In case you do not have a washing machine, put them in a sink, fill it up with water and add a dish washing soap, leave to soak. You will have time to wash them later.

5. Go through the rooms again and close all the windows. Take a quick glance around the room and if you notice something that still needs to be put in its right place, do it.

6. Bathroom – take all the dirty towels and put in dirty laundry bag. On all the shiny parts (tiles, sink etc.) spray the cleaning product and let it on for now. Put a cleaning liquid in a toilet and leave while completing next steps. We will come back for this!

7. Living room (the room where you will most probably welcome your guests) – fold all the blankets that are there, remote controls put in their designated places. All the newspapers and journals nicely put in one pile.

8. Back to the kitchen. All the dishes are now nicely soaked and will be much easier and faster to wash. If a dishwasher have already done the job, congratulations, more time to do other things 🙂 Look around and if you notice other products lying around, put them in the fridge. Everything else you can put in one corner on the kitchen counter. With a humid cloth go over all the counter tops and clean also the sink.

9. Bathroom again! Quickly wipe all the shiny parts that you did spray with a cleaning product before. Don’t forget to clean the mirror. Put the clean towels out.

10. Door bell not ringing yet? In the short amount of time that you still have go through all the rooms again to make sure you have not missed something.

That’s it! You did it! Imagine if you have done some much in such short amount of time, what could you do with more time and motivation?

I hope you will enjoy your time with guests and they will appreciate and respect your clean house.

If you wish to share your tips, I would be more than happy to read your experience. Please leave a comment if this 30 minutes sprint have worked for you and share them if you think that someone might benefit.

I wish you to create that special space that you feel comfortable in and keep it nice and tidy.

Agnese

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…not my problem – How rude!

Pour yourself a cup of tea and be assured that you have done enough

I wanted to share the experience that I had at my previous work place with one of colleagues who worked at reception at the time. It made me think about our roles in helping others and how to know when you have done your best. When can you stop, breathe and move one because you are sure that there is nothing more you can do?

My colleague was sitting behind reception welcoming clients and helping them with whatever struggle they referred to. She was one of those very honest (that is what I liked about her the most), straight forward and no BS girls. Above all she was someone who did her job very well and had no problem taking and completing more tasks during her shifts.

One day there came a moment where it got too overwhelming by the counter – a client asked the same thing in different ways to get what he wanted. As a result she got very frustrated. You can explain client that you will not be able to hep only that many times, right?

"Not my problem!"

After saying that she closed down the counter window. At that moment I was taken back by her rudeness. This was not acceptable and I felt ashamed for her (in some way I felt responsible for her actions, because I worked in the company longer and was the one who explained her role when she started to work). However, since I came to really enjoy her company, dedication and commitment, it made me think WHAT CAN I LEARN FROM THIS? Was this attitude really that bad? Too straight forward for my taste maybe? In other words I basically started to make excuses for her in my own mind to look at this situation from other perspectives.

You know what I came to realise? While her attitude was indeed not appropriate, we all sometimes come to the point when enough is enough and we need to start to take care of ourselves first in order to help others.

Fill up your cup first, so you can overflow and share.

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All these excuses made for her lead me to think about my own life – how many times I have people pleased, not giving myself a chance to slow down and be in peace that I have done enough. Learn form my mistakes. I can now with confidence say that:

1. 1. I can not solve all the worlds’ problems. We need to know our place in the world and own it. While I am so grateful for the experience that corporate world has given to me, working in service type industry just drains my energy. All different kinds of demands, requests (not always in the politest way, of course) that you are not able to fulfil just makes you feel like you are not good enough.
  2. I am enough. You do not need to scroll down your Instagram and look at those beautiful photos of perfect life’s of others and dream of having the same, because only you have the strength, power and skill set to create your life the way you want.
  3. The time is now. Unless you start to do something about becoming self-aware, confident, enough, nothing will change. And I am talking form experience. I use to get all fired up about doing workout that my app notified me of and would decide to start next Monday or next month, but when that day came, I didn’t pull through. You know why? Because I didn’t put myself first, I always had more important things to do. But no more!

What does it have to do with organizing, de-cluttering, tidying up, you may ask. EVRYTHING! The more confident you will feel to let things go emotionaly, the easier it will be for you tho let things go from your house.

Make a promise to yourself right now and say it out loud:

And don’t let anyone, anyone tell you otherwise. If they do, it is just lack of their own worthiness.

I truly hope that you will not waist any time and start the change right now, so you can thrive and fill the world with those special gifts that only you have.

Don’t be shy to share this article if you have found it helpful or think that some one else might benefit by reading it.

I wish you strength and confidence to take that time for yourself and fill up your cup.

Agnese

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Things you can get rid of right now

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THINGS YOU CAN GET RID OF RIGHT NOW

Tidy 4 main areas in your house and enjoy the freedom

I am a true believer that clutter takes the best out of us and blocks new energy to come in to our lives. This is why it has been so important in my life to de-clutter from time to time to create that precious space for new opportunities. It is great if you do a spring cleaning, however I encourage you to take that action monthly and see how your world changes. I am suggesting this because the more we do it, the more we get rid off, which means that there will be less distractions in our already busy lives.

First time de-cluttering might seem like you are throwing away a lot of things, most probably things that you obviously don’t need anymore, for example junk mail, expired medicine, stained clothes. However once you get yourself in to habit of de-cluttering your stuff frequently, you will be able to see more clearly what you really need therefore getting rid of more and more each time. Trust me, before you know it, you will be left with nothing but everything that you truly need so you can focus your mind on what is important to you.

Clutter in nothing but an energy block. It is time to clear your home and mind.

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I would like to start with Living room as it is a common area for clutter to shop up as everyone in the family are using this room, including your guests. Here are a list of things to get rid of right now:

- - Junk mail – unsubscribe from receiving them at all if all you do is look at them and put aside after receiving.
  - Old magazines – you have read them, give them to someone who haven’t.
  - Books you’ve outgrown – it is time to give them second life – donate.
  - Stained or worn throw pillow covers and trows – they just do not look pretty anymore.
  - Broken pens and markers – what is the use of that?
  - Filled notepads and notebooks – they are filled.

Let’s continue with your Kitchen since this is the place, I believe, most hard to organize, because there are just so many things, places to hide things and things in to things. But let’s start with couple of obvious items that have served their time in your kitchen:

- - Expired coupons – there is no need for those anymore, right?
  - Plastic lids or containers that don’t have a “friend” – it is hard to use them without their best half.
  - Unused cookbooks – give them to your friends or someone you know would appreciate them.
  - Expired foods – obviously, right? You do not want to get food poisoning.
  - Chipped or damaged dishes – you will not have space for new things if you keep piling up the old ones.
  - Unused flower vases – yes, I know, we keep them to use some day, but be real here – you only need couple.

Moving on, let’s go to you Bathroom and see what can be done there to make it less cluttered and more spacious. This is such an important place to keep tidy as it is where you are getting rid of all the dirt and in my opinion you can’t clean yourself well enough in a cluttered space (it just makes no sense):

- - Expired medicine – no use of that anymore anyways.
  - Old makeup – using it might cause some pretty ugly consequences.
  - Old nail polish – unless you know some tricks to make it new again, get rid of it.
  - Old or stained towels – find another use for them, otherwise they don’t belong in your bathroom.
  - Hair accessories – they used to be in fashion, not anymore.

Last place I would like to point out in today’s blog is the place where you spend most of your time, the most precious time, because nothing is more important than a good night sleep. Yes, I am talking about your Bedroom:

- - Clothes that don’t fit – if they are in good condition, give them to someone in need.
  - Stained, worn, unused bed linen – your sleep will be much deeper knowing you are sleeping on good sheets.
  - Stained or worn clothes – you will not wear them anyways.
  - Mismatched and worn socks – believe me, you will feel much better once they are out of your closet.
  - Broken jewellery – let’s be honest, you will never fix them.

Now when you have an actual list where to start from, I suggest you do not waste any time and get to work ASAP, because only you can create that space that best suits your needs.

I hope that this post have helped you to realise how many thing you have been keeping for no reason as they do no have real use in your life.

If you have found this article useful, please share your thought below to inspire others to clear their home as well.

Best of success,

Agnese

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My lightbulb moment *Personal

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MY LIGHTBULB MOMENT* PERSONAL

How come that some lightbulbs hits you like a rock while others seem to never arrive.

This as a story about my lightbulb moment, kind of… You are wondering why kind off? For so long I have wished for a miracle, some sudden falling start to come upon and enlighten me, but it just didn’t happen in they way I was expecting it to – with sudden/ out of nowhere realisation.

Since I remember myself I have been a planner, I liked structure and I believed that organizing our private space the right way can help us achieve anything we want, weather that may be love, money, heath… you name it! Surely clutter would not help here – it simply doesn’t let new energy come in to our lifes and change it for better.

But lets starts from the beginning…

I am honestly the most organized person I know in. Well… maybe I don’t know that many people :). But because I consider myself organized, I have realised that I just notice other peoples clutter and that was driving me crazy for a while and let me elaborate.

Whenever I used to go to someones home I could see straightaway the clutter they kept, the disorganisation of their stuff and the stuck energy all it held. Then I would compare it to their lives and I could see some common areas which has made me curios since then. In my mind I would get rid of that and enjoy the free space created. However in real life it is not all that simple. I can, orfcourse, do what ever I want in my mind, but when it comes to actually talking to people about maybe, possibly getting rid of some of it, there is a huge resistance, simply because they just like their stuff!

And this made me even more curios of to what is is that keeps people so attached to their belongings. Is it simply because they like their stuff? Well… not entirely. As it turns out there are layers and layers of emotions that make us attached to stuff we have, not even talking about physical needs of them (or at least we think we need it all).

Now I look at my things quite sceptically and try my best to keep only what makes me happy, but I know the feeling of attachment, because I have been there too. Resistance have played a huge part in my life as well. I resisted what I feared from and kept attracting more things that I did not wished for (at least not consciously). Mostly I resisted changes because I was afraid of letting go. But I can tell you one thing – it didn’t serve me. This is why I can surely say that it is not serving you too! But don’t worry, I am here for you and will lead you every step of the way to your new path.

I have made a conscious decision to not let fear stop me and keep me stuck anymore. We all know way too well that “What you resist persists”, and this is something we neither wan’t or need.

Only you have the skill set, talent and power to create what you most want.

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My journey started when I looked back at my life – my strengths, my weaknesses, what have I achieved, what is important to me. And… I realised something that seemed quite not that important at first, but what turned out bigger than I expected: I lived abroad and visited my family twice per year. When ever I used to go home or on vacation, for this matter, I would plan my trips very detailed – book necessary appointments, fit in all I wanted to do in that amount of time that I had. And you know what? I achieved all that I had planned out… I was wondering if this would be something to apply in my daily life to achieve greater things. So I did just that- organized my life towards success.

And I am here to help you do the same! My biggest advice to you is to notice when the lightbulb moment hits you and do not ignore it for your life. DO NOT BE AFRAID and wonder too much what others will think. I know it is easier said than done, but once you actually start practicing that, it will change your life FOREVER! And please don’t be upset if your lightbulb moment hasn’t arrived. Rest assured that it is on it’s way and who knows, it might slide in as calmly as mine.

Comment below if you wish to share your “lightbulb moments” to inspire others. I read every single comment.

Best of success,

Agnese

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THINGS YOU CAN GET RID OF RIGHT NOW

Tidy 4 main areas in your house and enjoy the freedom

Want to increase your productivity to have time freedom while running a thriving business?

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MY LIGHTBULB MOMENT* PERSONAL

How come that some lightbulbs hits you like a rock while others seem to never arrive.

Want to increase your productivity to have time freedom while running a thriving business?

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