The Annual “Clean Sweep Challenge” - Friday, Oct. 5th!
October 4th, 2007 by Allen VoivodFirst, the blurb about it - then our own details:
Thousands of entrepreneurs come together to blast through the obstacles and clutter that hold them back. Success Connections’ National Clean Sweep Challenge is a FREE event geared to help entrepreneurs work less and make more. Register to receive a FREE value-filled toolkit, at CleanSweepChallenge.com.
Now, last year we joined in the challenge, and the following week was the biggest financial week we’d ever had to that point - over $6,000 in income, and it was a Labor-Day-shortened week!
This time around, the Clean Sweep Challenge Day is happening October 5th, but we’re still dealing with labor - namely Lani, who started having contractions Wednesday around 2:30 in the morning.
Even now, as I sit across the office from her, she’s wincing and taking deep breaths every 8-10 minutes. (We were told to go to the hospital yesterday, only to be sent home seven hours later - don’t get me started about that.)
So it looks like the only clean sweep about to happen around here is the inside of Lani’s uterus, but we can’t recommend the Clean Sweep Challenge highly enough. It’s the brainchild of Melanie Benson Strick, “The Entrepreneur’s Success Coach,” whom we’ve mentioned a time or two on this here blog. She was even quoted in a recent Woman’s Day article about organization and the “clean sweep.”
And in the year that’s passed since we did the Clean Sweep Challenge, our home office - which was the target of the sweep - has undergone an extreme makeover. Bunk beds? Gone. Two cloests? Down to one. Two desks? Also down to one. A new paint job, new carpet (thanks to a bit of a water leakage issue), and a whole bunch of crap out of there…voila! Uncluttered and completely efficient.
What’s more, the effect carried throughout the rest of the house, and into our new outside-the-home office. Quite frankly, the only place that needs help now is the attic, since I’ve been throwing stuff around up there in the hunt for baby clothes, furniture, supplies, et cetera. It’s a good thing Lani can’t get up there to see, pregnant belly and all. 
I’m counting on being at the hospital during the Challenge this year - so maybe I’ll bring my laptop and Clean Sweep my computer. (How many old files and folders do you have that you don’t need anymore?)
Whether you do a virtual or physical version, though, please go for it! Download your Clean Sweep tools from Melanie’s site today. It truly was a life-changing, business-enhancing event for us. We hope it will be for you, too!
