When all my big cleaning was inspiration-dependent, the length between cleanings was a vague memory, a nagging feeling, and doing the task again depended on noticing. With Slob Vision, I’m not good at noticing. By the time I noticed the floor needed to be mopped, the floor really needed to be mopped, and mopping was an urgent, huge task. When I knew Thursday was Mopping Day, I realized I needed to mop every time Thursday came around. Noticing was random, but Thursdays aren’t. They happen every week.

