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temporarily by air currents. Unless you have a healthy respect
for this physical reality, you will find yourself redoing your
work constantly. You will have an understandable human
impulse first to dust what's right in front of you or what's
interesting or what's easy to reach. Instead, train yourself to
look upward toward molding, tops of picture frames, and light
fixtures first, always checking for cobwebs.

Finish each area as you pass by. Do all the dusting, polishing,
wiping, brushing, wet-cleaning, and tidying you need to do in
an area as you pass through it. Change tools and cleaning
supplies as needed. If you are dusting happily along with your
feather duster and happen upon raspberry jam smeared on the
top of the TV set, quickly, pop the duster into your back pocket
with one hand as you reach for the Red Juice with the other.
Spray with one hand as the other reaches for the cleaning cloth.
Wipe with one hand as the other replaces the spray bottle on the
apron loop. Then replace the cloth with one hand as the other
hand reaches for the duster, and you are on your way again. A
true blitz—a sign that you are mastering what you are doing.
Don't go around the room once to dust, once to polish, once to
tidy things, etc. As mentioned much earlier in your training,
PMC is a very specific set of movements. You are not allowed to
backtrack or randomly hop around the room.

Whether or not you are working with others, part of your
strategy is to reduce the work load of the vacuumer. (The
vacuumer will normally be someone else if you are working
with another person.) Throughout this chapter, we'll suggest
ways you can shorten vacuuming time by doing what would
have been some of the vacuumer's work as you dust your way
through the house.

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