RESET: 10-Min Cleaning Timer

Do you keep telling yourself you'll clean, and then never do? It isn't that cleaning is hard. It's that starting is hard. RESET asks one thing of you. Pick a spot, start a 10-minute timer, and begin. Once you see the before and after, you'll be glad you did. You can also use it with your whole family — set rewards for your kids to build a cleaning habit, and let a wheel decide whose turn it is today. ■ HOW IT WORKS 1. Take a "before" photo (you can skip it) 2. Clean along with the timer's step-by-step guidance 3. When you're done, take an "after" photo and compare Putting the two photos side by side when you finish is the good part. ■ WHY TEN MINUTES Because you'll actually start. "An hour of cleaning" takes a decision. Ten minutes you can just begin. Choose 2, 5, 10, 20, 30 minutes, or an hour. The 2-minute emergency mode is for when someone is already on their way. ■ DO IT WITH THE…