Lifehack: Cleaning for a happy mood
Cleaning in many people’s view is a bitter and tired dirty work, especially cleaning the toilet. But someone who insisted on cleaning in his workplace for 60 years, not a cleaner but the owner of a company, could not help but be surprised that this person is Hidesaburo Keyama, the author of the book “Sweeping the Way”.A person’s behavior and habits are more or less influenced by his family. When he was young, Hidesaburo Keyama’s mother rarely told him in words what he should do. The impression he got from his mother was that she cleaned and kept cleaning, and that all the places in the house were clean and tidy. What was even more valuable was that his mother did all this without complaining.
When he grew up, Hideyasaburo Keyama started his own company, but sometimes his subordinates did not listen to him, and his lack of experience in management made him think of his mother cleaning.
So he began to clean the company, cleaning every corner, but no one took him seriously. Sometimes, when he was cleaning the toilets, some of the employees went to the toilet without avoiding him, ignoring his presence. Sometimes when he was cleaning the stains on the stairs, some employees crossed over his hands.
At this time, he was not angry. Instead, he insisted on cleaning and cleaning thoroughly until after one year, two years, and ten years, finally some employees could not stand it and joined the ranks of cleaning. In this way, as time went by, more and more employees began to clean hygiene, the corporate atmosphere became better and better, and colleagues got along more harmoniously.
As the old saying goes, “If you don’t clean one house, you can’t clean the whole world.
Hideyasaburo Keyama started from cleaning one house and achieved the development of the company. It takes time, stamina and persistence to make a place clean.
A dirty place like a toilet often makes people sick and disgusted, and few people are willing to take the initiative to clean it, especially when some feces contaminate the toilet. To clean the old stains, it requires great perseverance and is a great challenge to human nature. But no one wants to clean toilets where there are other options. But Hidesaburo Keyama started by cleaning toilets, which has to be admired.
He came up with a way to let his readers experience cleaning. He bought all his books published by publishers and put them in his warehouse, and then set a threshold that only those who cleaned could get his books.
So many people joined the ranks of cleaning, and then they were surprised to find that cleanliness and tidiness are good habits, and their mood really became different from before, they would be more optimistic and positive, and they would be more pragmatic in their work.
On the contrary, I think I am really too incompetent, since I have children, the home is often messy. For example, usually mopping a floor, just use the mop to mop down the places that can be seen, like the sofa, under the TV cabinet, the dust is thick layer, but I do not clean every day. The toilet is not cleaned every day, but once every few days, but not thoroughly.
Once not thoroughly, twice not thoroughly, and then it’s hard to clean it. Cleaning is also a way to develop self-discipline. Getting used to getting up early is a good habit, and getting used to cleaning thoroughly is also a good habit.
When one day, push open the door and see the room cleaned by yourself, you will definitely be in a happy and comfortable mood. Then, from now on, clean with your heart, clean thoroughly, and make your own home and your own mood brand new!