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07 September 2010
Clean Sweep Assessment→[More:]Someone was looking for this on AskMeta. I have a lot of work to do in my "Physical Environment".
Eh, it needs an option for "I don't consider that an improvement." I mean, I enjoy the hell out of my coffee. Cutting it out for the sake of cutting it out doesn't strike me as a positive move, necessarily.
That said, most of the other ones look pretty good. Can't really argue with most of the ones in the Money section, for instance (although some are easier said than done "earnings consistently outpace inflation" for instance, would have been tough in the past few years).
Still, it reminded me I need to make a dentist appointment, so that's something.
I will never be able to say I could get a perfect score. I am not a good sleeper, nor will I ever be. I have always been a crappy sleeper.
I also injure myself frequently, because I am blind in one eye, and my depth perception is shit.
I also do not always tell the truth. Telling the truth is sometimes the wrong thing to do, and sets itself in direct contradiction with some of the other goals on this list.
Meh, I suck at these things.
I got 75 but I do not for a minute that my s**t is that together. Part of it is that my wife is very orderly, so the stuff about our house is down to her.
Ten years ago I could have checked off almost all of the "money" items and almost none of the "relationship" items. Now it's exactly the reverse. My finances are in shambles, but I have lots of love. Trust me, it's better this way.
The relationship area is the strongest for me, but only because the test places emphasis on setting boundaries, asking for what makes you happy, and spending time with people who like you. I've been kissing off toxic relationships left and right (and setting strong boundaries on the remaining ones) for about a decade, and it's paying off.
Of course, in every other respect, I'm a mess, and this test reflects that.
Who actually makes their bed? I mean, really, what is the point of that, other than making one's mother happy (which actually makes me UNhappy most of the time)?
Honestly, I don't even make the bed when I put fresh sheets on. I just spread them out on the bed.
I scored well on Wellness and Relationships, but didn't even try money after 18 months of unemployment.
I got a 54, which is better than expected. Relationships was my strongest category. But seriously, who in the US actually takes four weeks of vacation?
47. And that was better than I thought I'd do. I know I don't have my sh*t together in many traditional ways. But having zero debt is a good thing, and they didn't ask about that. I make crap money but I get Spring Break week off, paid, and same for Winter Break. Suck on that, Clean Sweep.
38. Physical environment and Money are my big problem areas. I sort of feel that money impacts the physical environment. I don't know. How DO people keep tidy, pretty houses while working full time with a kid? I'm tired at the end of the day and dinner, dishes, homework help, laundry and bedtime take up the whole evening.
You know, except the part that I spend here, and on Metafilter. And playing the Sims. Oh, I think I get it now.
27! Ha ha! 27! I am the least together of all of you! Why does this not surprise me? Sob. Snif. Oh well.
Actually, I don't much care. Good thing I'm not a big fan of most of their criteria. I mean, I make my bed every day but only so the dogs won't get fleas and sand in the sheets when they inevitably jump on it. And I like coffee every day, damn it.
57. Physical environment was the weakest area for me, but that is being worked on. Anyone who gets 100 on that test is, by definition, an unhappy pedantic mess, as far as I'm concerned.
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