How to Change Your Perspective on Housekeeping

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When we liberate ourselves from the idea that we are a good person or a bad person with care tasks, we can stop thinking about the right way to do things. And this is the fun part because you get to customize a life that works for you. In my experience, people will exhibit mind-blowing creativity when they are only taught how to speak compassionately to themselves. My new motto is good enough is perfect and everything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.

Let’s face it: if chores were fun, they probably wouldn’t be called that. Because for most people, life can be overwhelming – and that means it doesn’t always look like a cleaning commercial where everyone is dancing their way to do laundry, take out trash, or smiling while washing the dishes. KC Davis is a therapist, author, podcaster, and TikToker who knows that caring for yourself can be a struggle. In this episode, she shares how radically rethinking “care” tasks –like not seeing a lack of cleanliness as shameful, or viewing messiness as a moral failure– can improve our quality of life. She also shares small strategies that could help us take better care of ourselves, because we deserve it. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts