When you have those unwilling participants at home, work or elsewhere that just don't want to keep anything organize and could care less about your feelings, you can do the following:
1. Stop cooking in a messy kitchen. They don't want to help, they don't eat.
2. Enlist the help of others and reward those who help for their efforts initially then gradually cut back. They need to learn to do things without expecting rewards.
3. Argue until you are blue in the face with Mr. or Ms. Lazy to the point that he or she moves out.
4. Face the fact that you might be over-the-top with your tidiness and begin to scale back.
5. Enjoy your dwelling the way it is and maintain it without complaint.
6. Maybe it isn't the mess that is the problem, but the person. How about re-evaluating the relationship.
7. Say a prayer and watch for signs that God is about to turn your residence upside down--order out of chaos. However, if you are not ready for change, then keep quiet.
Nicholl McGuire
