Nicholas King King 1

Verda M. Jaroszewski

UWRT 1101

2/8/2017

Ever since I was a child I enjoyed organization and cleaning tasks. A

dirty room wasnt a chore but a challenge I intended to complete with

perfection. Every surface collects filth overtime and I strived to expel it all. I

longed for the aroma of a freshly cleaned room and spent the first part of

every day ensuring that all of my things were in order and strategically

placed for efficient access and use. My odd desire for order began to define

me, and I never imagined that my love for tidiness would determine how I

would go my completing my day to day tasks. Cleaning is a tedious chore,

but my fascination lied with the thought process involved. You can start

organizing and cleaning a room in many ways, but efficiency is an important

aspect of completing any task at hand. As a child, I developed a process of

thinking that helped me complete my daily organizing and cleaning. As I

grew in age I slowly tweaked my process to make it more practical an

efficient. I slowly noticed that I used this thought process not only for

cleaning but for any of my daily tasks, such as school work or house chores.

By the time I was old enough to get a job, my process became the basis to

my daily procedures. I start with observing the room I intend to clean or the

problem I set out to solve, then I determine what is out of place, or needs to

be done in order to complete a certain task. Finally, I decide the most

efficient way to complete the task at hand. When I was in grade school I
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would take this process into consideration when completing assignments and

noticed that it worked in a similar way. When working in groups my peers

thought it was odd how methodically I viewed the work assigned to us. The

subject it helped me the most in seemed to be math. Problems would be

presented to me in various ways and the most exciting part was figuring out

the most useful and efficient way to solve them. But when it came to subject

such as history and art, I couldnt find a use for my process and therefore

lost interest very quickly. The process I developed came in handy when I

started working for a professional cleaning company. I would drive out to a

building companys model homes and clean the houses. At this point in my

life I had never taken on such a large cleaning task so this threw my process

for a loop. Now I have an entire house to clean and cannot see all of the

smaller in depth tasks at hand. I realized that not all tasks are going to be

right in front of me and easily sorted through a simple thought process. In

this moment it occurred to me that a stagnant thought process wouldnt

increase my efficiency but would hold me back from finding improved and

more effective ways to complete a job. As I continued cleaning various

houses I adjusted how I looked at certain jobs and how I decided to approach

them. I noticed that different jobs required vastly different approaches. When

I begin cleaning a large house, it was most efficient to clean top to bottom,

back to front and when Im cleaning smaller houses I would complete one

cleaning task for the entire house then move on to the next cleaning task.

Both methods required different approached but were most effective for each
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of the jobs. Regardless of the task at hand my ambition was to be the most

efficient and maintain a good quality of work. My knack for cleaning began to

reflect in my daily endeavors and allowed me to look at a situation as a

whole, before deciding how to best resolve it. As I began in my first semester

in college I realized that high school is like cleaning a room and college was

like cleaning a whole house, I would have to adapt to the new environment

to become successful as apposed to reusing my high school study tactics. It

was how I adjusted my mental process that helped me adjust to college. In

realizing that my thought process can continue to improve, I have begun to

adjust to all obstacles that may oppose me. I learned to adjust to the task at

hand which allows me to look at the multitude of possibilities, instead of hold

a particular mindset throughout. Having cleaning in my life helped mold the

way I take on each and every day. The methodical view I gained from striving

for efficiency in cleaning is now how I view all tasks I take on in life. My

literacy, work ethic and motivation have all been largely impacted by my

interest in cleanliness and would not have the mental capacity I do without

the activities I have involved myself in.