Aditya Kothadiya's Blog

Its Cleanliness,
dear!

Targeted audience: Students

Beyond intelligence, lie all the usual words: discipline, endurance, and luck. Consider one
of such usual words – discipline. It is very simple to understand what it
means, but equally tough to maintain and follow it in our day-to-day lives.

I am a strong believer of one of such disciplines –
cleanliness. Especially, if you are a student and if you are living with your friends,
then it becomes very hard to maintain the cleanliness in your apartment. I
understand that you are a student and your primary objective is to study hard.
And you might not consider it is important to spend time on cleaning than studying.
But if you can maintain the discipline of cleanliness, it will add tremendous benefits
to your daily academic routine. It will help to improve your performance and efficiency.

Clean environment is about having a mental peace. Cleanliness
shows your attitude; it speaks about your personality; it is your image amongst
your friend network.

Cleanliness is your
necessity.

After working until late night in department lab on your class
assignments, you want a pleasant environment when you come back home to rest
and sleep. When you wake up in the morning, you want to start a new day with fresh
mind and fresh energy. When you are studying in your room, you don’t want to
get buried down in the piles of books and printouts.

It is hardly a matter
of few minutes.

Cleaning your apartment on regular basis is not only an easy
task but also is less time-consuming task. It takes two minutes to clean your
bed when you wake up in the morning instead of keeping it an untidy state. It
is the matter of few minutes to wash your plates and utensils immediately after
you are done with your lunch or dinner. You can comfortably spend few hours of your
weekends once in a week to clean the restroom.

Consistency is the
key to all disciplines.

We all are aware of this but most of the times we fail to
follow it and we act on it only when the situation goes beyond our control. We have
spiky nature when it comes for cleanliness and we clean the apartment once in six
months. The key is to be consistent. It takes very few steps to follow the consistency
and to get rid of this spiky behavior. I can’t buy your argument that you don’t
have time to clean your own bed and your own apartment. Because I can’t digest
the fact that if you have 2-3 hrs to watch movies and videos on YouTube; if you
have 1-2 hrs to browse internet for no meaningful purpose, if you have 3-4 hrs
for chatting on messenger, then how come you don’t have 10-15 minutes to clean
your own stuff?

Talk. Plan. Act.

As I said earlier, this behavior is widely seen when you are
living with friends. I know, its not your fault. Its your friend who is
unclean. But you can be the change if you want to see it. If your friend is not
mature enough to observe your discipline, then do not hesitate to talk about
it. Plan an alternate schedule for each other. And then act on it.

In nutshell, spend some time on practicing some disciplines,
which will help your academic performance in direct or indirect ways. And to
maintain clean apartment is one of such practices. I am sure it will help a lot
to study well and score high.

Fight on! 

To read more articles from this series, please visit Beyond Intelligence.