We tend to see repetition as a problem because we’re focused on being done. Our job as homemaker isn’t to be done with the work; it is to continually hit the reset button. Everyone knows what the reset button does to a computer. Sometimes you just need to hit reset. It fixes a lot of the problems, right? In the same way, doing the dishes, washing the sheets, cleaning the bathrooms—all these are just reset buttons, and it’s our job to make sure they each get pushed often enough that things continue running smoothly. The real point isn’t that we finish washing the dishes; the point is that the
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