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Focus Pocas

by Carly

I have never been a neat freak at my house. Oh how I would love for just one day to be so freakishly neat that not one thing was out of place, everything polished and squeaky clean.  I personally have such a hard time focusing on one task that is is hard to keep everything in order!  To give you an example, I have written a small paragraph on how my brain functions.


Put a dish in the dishwasher, read all 500 posts on my google reader, make my bed, check twitter, put one toy away, check twitter, take out the garbage, Google something interesting, wash another dish, check twitter again, sweep the kitchen, turn on the news, check twitter again.


So as you can imagine, it takes me along time to clean my house during the day!


Music helps this immensely. It’s like magic and leads to a lot of productivity on my part. I don’t know what it is about playing music while cleaning but it just forces me to accomplish things that I would otherwise not do. If my girls like the music I am listening too they tend to help me clean more as well. We pick up the toys to the beat of the music and we stop when the music stops until the next song comes on. If one of my girls has picked up a good amount of things off the floor it earns her an official mommy dance where we do some amazing dancing with the stars move that would earn us a 10 and the mirror ball trophy for sure.


I think I also burn a lot of calories this way. This should totally be a new workout. I’ll make the video as soon as I put a dish in the dishwasher, read all 500 posts on my Google reader, make my bed, check twitter, put one toy away, check twitter, take out the garbage, Google something interesting, wash another dish, check twitter again, sweep the kitchen, turn on the news and check twitter again.
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Carly is a contributing writer for Mommy Moment. She has 3 very dramatic but beautiful girls ages 7, 4, and 1. Carly loves to write, cook, and connect with other moms through this crazy thing called blogging! See what she has been up to over at www.livingthescream.com

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Auqakuh

Monday 6th of December 2010

I also try to do at least a few chores before turning my computer on in the morning and I always play music. I absolutely agree that it makes any job so much more fun and the added exercise is a pretty sweet bonus!

Contest Patti

Sunday 5th of December 2010

I've tried not turning the PC on in the morning so I can't check it constantly - I just cave by 0930 and end up standing staring at it while it starts-up!Perhaps twitter should branch out into house cleaning / child care services - they already have us as a captive market!

Valerie @ Frugal Family Fun Blog

Friday 20th of August 2010

I'm a huge fan of dancing while you clean. It's even more fun with Latin music! :-)

Kate

Thursday 19th of August 2010

Very funny, and true for me as well. Well, actually I am a bit OCD about cleaning my house, so it is pretty neat. But it takes me a really long time to do it, because I think I am a bit ADD as well. Especially with the advent of social media! I'm pretty sure that I had a longer attention span before Twitter came along.

Living the Scream

Wednesday 18th of August 2010

Alex I love your idea I really need to do lists! They would keep me on track! Thanks :)