When did you first discover that you loved to clean?
Well, that's a very interesting question and we will talk about that today.
Hi, there.
I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
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All right, on to today's show, which is a personal question, and they wanted to know
when I discovered, me personally, that I loved to clean.
All right, truth be known, he's a great big reveal, I'm waiting for that day to come.
I'm waiting for the day when I wake up and I'm like "Yay, I love to clean," because
it has not happened yet.
Now, there are things in life that I love to do and cleaning is not one of them.
Now, I don't say that I hate to clean, it's probably somewhere in that area, I don't enjoy
it and if somebody else came and did it and it was free, you know, like, hey, I would
not bat an eye, I would say "Sure, clean for free," but the reality is this, I'm
good at cleaning.
I'm really good at cleaning.
When I was a kid, I'm from a large family, they are 19 of us kids in my family, and we
had a lot of chores.
We grew up on a farm and we had a lot of chores, and working was something we did, and if my
parents taught me one thing it was to have a really strong work ethic, and I didn't know
at the time, but that was going to serve me really well for the rest of my life.
So, am I good at cleaning?
Yes, I am.
Did I want to grow up to be a house cleaner?
I did not.
And when I look at my life and how it's kind of shaped and formed itself, and where I ended
up, am I where I wanted to be?
Okay, well that's a great question, and there are two times of the year that I do some personal
reflection, and it's such deep personal reflection it kind of knocks me off my rocker, and then
I'm like "Whoa, let me start over again," but it's Christmas and my birthday, because
my birthday is halfway through the year, and then Christmas and New Year's is the other
halfway through the year, so about every six months I go through this, kind of this internal
turmoil and I look at my life from every angle and I say
"Is this who I wanted to be when I grew up?"
The answer is no, it's not.
And so, I'm not here to say live your dreams, because sometimes your dreams will shift,
sometimes you don't get what you want in life but you get what you need.
Now, being a house cleaner is what was in front of me.
Back in 1991 I was waiting tables at a restaurant and one of the girls that waited tables with
me started a house cleaning company and she hired me to come work with her during the
day and then we waited tables in the evening, it was an extra way to make some money.
So I started working with her and I worked for her for exactly one day,
and then I got fired.
And it's not that I wasn't good at house cleaning, I was too good at house cleaning.
So, there were throw rugs in the people's houses that we cleaned, and she would lift
up the rugs and she would sweep stuff under the rugs, and I thought "Wait a second,
we're getting paid to clean the stuff out from underneath the rugs, why are we hiding
it under the rugs?
That's not serving anyone."
And so, I left.
I left at the end of the day because I kept asking questions like "Why aren't we pulling
up the rugs and cleaning this stuff instead of hiding more dirt?"
And it was an unethical practice to me, that's not how you clean, and so I left.
We parted ways because my way was not her way and she was the boss, and the next day
I started my own house cleaning company because I realized I was good at cleaning just from
all the chores and tasks that I had done at home.
This is something I can do.
I can start it on a very small shoestring budget and I can make some extra money to
put myself through school so that I can continue to pay my bills and what have you.
So starting a house cleaning business was not a business plan, it wasn't a proposal,
something that I sat down and I thought through every angle, there were no how to books that
I read, I didn't have a mentor or counselors, I knew nothing about business, quite frankly
I knew nothing about bonding, and insurance, and cleaning chemicals and all that other
stuff either, there was a lot of trial and error, but I realized there's something in
this for me, and as my life progressed there was still something in this for me.
And I woke up one day and I had to make a really hard decision, do I want to be a house
cleaning lady for the rest of my life?
And I asked that question and here's what I came up with, is there any harm in it?
I'm helping people upgrade the quality of their lives, how bad is that?
And at the end of the day if I die and people have words that they put on my tombstone and
it says "She was a house cleaner," how bad is that?
I can think of a lot worse professions that I wouldn't want to be associated with, so
I cleaned people's houses, I made the world a cleaner place than when I found it, is that
so wrong?
And I realized that's not so wrong, that's what's in front of me, those are the skills
God gave me, that's what I know, that's what I'm good at.
And so, instead of like running from it and saying, "Ugh, I'm halfway through my life
and I'm a house cleaning lady."
"Yeah, I am!
I spent my entire life building up to this moment, so I'm going to be the very best house
cleaning lady that I possibly can.
This is what I've been given."
So my question to you is not are you waiting to love your job?
I've never really loved house cleaning, okay, I've never really loved it.
It resonates with me because I love living in a clean house,
I love what it provides me.
I have a lifestyle that is unbeatable by most of my friends that work nine to five jobs,
and they have all this stress, and they have taken home work, and they have all these other
things, and I'm living the dream, right?
I'm living the American Dream being my own boss, being a homeowner, having all the things
I need or want in life.
I have a very, very nice life, but it's one that was self-created, okay?
And it is brought about by the friends that I have, the relationships that I have, the
things that I've attracted into my life, and you can do the same thing.
Even if you don't love to clean, right, you can love what the job provides you, and if
you love being your own boss and you love the lifestyle it gives you,
that's all you need.
You don't need to love what you do, and every day people ask me this,
"Well, I'm not following my passion."
All right, so my suggestion is change your passion.
Be passionate about the reasons why you're doing this.
And the reasons why I'm doing it get me up every morning before the crack of dawn, and
I pop out of bed and I'm like "Yes!
I get to start today already!"
And it's fun for me because I love what I do.
I don't love the house cleaning, but I love what I do.
I love being my own boss, I love serving other people, I love a clean environment that's
full of harmony, and joy, and peace, and organization.
I love that, right?
I love it.
It's a part of who I am intrinsically.
So do I love the cleaning part of it, the scouring out sinks with cleanser?
Not so much, no.
That's just a means to get to the end.
So, when is the first I discovered it?
I don't know.
I don't know that I will every love cleaning in this lifetime and that's okay, but I love
being a house cleaner.
All right, if you found this tip helpful please share it with one friend.
This might make a difference in someone else's life,
especially a house cleaner that you know.
All right, until we meet again
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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