Hi there, I'm Angela Brown, and this is Ask a House Cleaner.
This is a show where you get to ask a house cleaning question,
and I get to help you find an answer.
Now, today's question comes from Jeffrey.
And Jeffrey wants to know "I'm getting started in a house cleaning business.
What am I supposed to do for the very first thing as I get started?"
Well, that's a great question Jeffrey, but the good news is you've already done it.
The fact that you're listening to this podcast, or you're watching this as a video, you've
already taken the first step.
You recognize that you need additional information to get you from point A to point B.
Now, the very next thing that I need you to do is an example and exercise of meditation.
What?
That sounds so weird.
What does that have to do with house cleaning?
What it has to do with house cleaning is if you can't see yourself in the role of a house
cleaner, neither will your clients.
So, you have to see yourself in that role first.
Okay, so we steal this exercise from realtors.
When you go to an open house, let's say that you're going to buy a house, or you're going
to look at an apartment or something to move in.
They send you to an open house.
When you get to the open house
The house is not completely bare room to room.
The house is staged.
And what that means is when you walk in, there is a picture that is already painted, that
all you have to do is place yourself inside.
Okay?
So, you walk in the living room and there are already sofas there.
There is an easy chair.
A great big recliner.
There is a little coffee table, and on the coffee table are some magazines.
There are a couple of candles.
It's a really nice little space that makes you feel cozy.
And so, in your mind you imagine yourself going in and sitting down.
Kicking up your feet, flipping on the TV and relaxing.
As you walk into the kitchen of this house you're going to see all of the kitchen counters
are clean.
There might be a little to do list or a shopping list.
There may be a menu of tonight's dinner or something.
And so, it paints this picture like "Oh, I'm going to get off work and I'm going to come
in, and this is the kitchen I'm going to come home to.
And I'm going to open the fridge."
And you open the fridge and there are some waters in there, and maybe a tray of eggs
or something.
They've staged this house so you can easily take yourself and put yourself into that picture.
Okay.
So, here's how that works.
I want you to do that exact same exercise with house cleaning.
So, as you wake up every day, I want you to think in your mind whether you're driving
to work, or whether you don't have a job and you're just getting ready to start your house
cleaning company.
I want you to take some time every day and I want you to mentally place yourself in a
house cleaning scenario.
What it looks like is this.
It's dark, You're inside your bed.
You're tired, you're sleepy.
And all of a sudden, your alarm rings.
It's 6:00 am.
And you yank off the covers and you jump out of bed.
And you're like "Ah man, it's dark outside, and there's ice on the ground, and it's cold,
and I just want to go back to bed."
You can't go back to bed.
So, imagine yourself going into your shower, and you're taking off your pajamas and you're
climbing into your shower.
Now you're running the soap through your hair.
And now that you've showered, you get out.
You dry yourself off with a towel, dry off your toes, put your socks on, put your clothes on.
You've got to comb your hair, put your makeup on.
Jeffrey, maybe you don't wear makeup, but if you're a woman you would.
Put your makeup on, do your hair, get ready as you would if you were going to go clean
houses for the day.
Then go down to your laundry room or wherever you have your stash of cleaning supplies.
And then once you get there, imagine pulling out your mop bucket.
And lining up all your supplies that you're going to need for the day.
Whether it's cleanser or an all-purpose cleaner, or it's some kind of a toilet bowl cleaner,
or a brass cleaner, or a granite cleaner, or whatever it is that you use.
So, you're putting all your cleaning supplies together, you're counting out your rags, you're
getting your duster together and all the things that you're going to need.
Then imagine yourself carrying the bucket or your cleaning caddy out to your car.
And you open the car door and there's ice on the window, and you've got to scrape the
window of ice.
So, imagine yourself in your cleaning clothes, and you've got your cleaning supplies now
in your trunk.
You still have to run back inside and get your vacuum.
Now you're going to be scraping the ice off the windows, you're going to put the key in
the car and turn the car on so the car can start to heat up a little bit while you go
back inside and get your vacuum.
Imagine yourself going through all these steps.
And then suddenly you get in your car, and you flip on your podcast and now you're driving
to your first client's house.
And you've got to pass the school bus, so you've got to give yourself a few extra minutes
because you're going to get stuck behind the school bus.
And then you're going to get to the client's house.
And you're going to stand on their porch.
And you're going to ring the doorbell.
And you're going to wait in the cold shivering because you didn't bring your coat with you.
Your coat is out in the car.
You've got all your cleaning supplies and you're shivering waiting for them to open
the door so you can go inside and clean.
Once you get inside, you have to have a little bit of small chat.
"Hey, how ya doing?
How's it going?"
And then you're going to go ahead and you're going to start cleaning their house.
What does that look like?
Can you imagine pulling out the vacuum?
Pulling out your mop?
Pulling out your cleaning supplies?
Dusting?
Maybe listening to a podcast while you're cleaning.
This is an exercise you have to go through, all the way through to the very end of the
day, where the client gives you a check for the work that you've done.
And then you go back and you get in your car, and take a picture of it on your cell phone,
so that it can be deposited to your bank account.
And then you figure out what you're going to do for the next client.
Do you clean your cleaning caddy between clients?
Do you restock your supplies, or did you bring two cleaning caddies for the two houses that
you're doing today and they each are stocked with supplies?
How do you run your business?
Once you start walking through these steps in your mind, and it becomes a visualization
just like the house, where you can take yourself and place yourself into that scenario, only
then are you ready to be a house cleaner.
Because if you cannot see yourself going through these motions every single day.
And I mean every single day, every single week, every single year for however many years
you're going to be a house cleaner, if you can't see yourself going through those motions,
every single day, neither will your clients.
There are a lot of house cleaner that they just show up and wing it.
This is not a winging it kind of business.
If you don't see yourself in that role, you will not succeed as a business owner.
You have to imagine yourself doing this every single day.
Make it such a part of your life that it just becomes routine.
This is who you are.
This is what you do.
Alright, that's the very first step.
That's it for today.
I want you to start visualizing yourself as a house cleaner, maid, housekeeper, janitor,
whatever title you want to give yourself.
I need you to focus on visualizing yourself in that role.
Alright, so that's it for today.
If you have any questions, head on over to https://AskaHouseCleaner.com/show ask your
questions and we will be back to you with the next episode tomorrow.
And until then, leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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