Mornings used to be complete chaos in my house. We’d be rushing around, trying to find clothes in the laundry mountain , scrabbling to get food into ourselves and the kids, and I felt like everything I needed to do involved fighting through disorganised, unfinished, piles of amorphous STUFF.

I would kiss my husband goodbye, drop my son off at kindy, and walk home with a sinking feeling. I would turn the key in the lock, walk back into the mess, and think: Housework SUCKS!

The truth is, it wasn’t the housework that sucked. It was the lack of housework that sucked. When I had more energy, and started trying to do my household tasks mindfully instead of resentfully, things finally turned around. I got a little better at running my household, I felt on top of things, and liked my home a lot better. I would turn the key in the lock, and walk in, and feel happy to be home.

If you find yourself looking around your home and thinking “HOUSEWORK SUCKS!” I’d like to suggest this might be because you’re not doing it, or you’re not doing it as well as you could, or you’re doing it in a way which isn’t working for you. Maybe it’s a lack, not a surplus, of housework which is the problem.