When breakfast is done it is very tempting to slow down but this is where the real work starts. My next piece of advice is to get an answering machine and have it on during breakfast. Some people juggle phone and frying pan but I am not an advocate of it as it is a bit dangerous and you cannot pay full attention to both. Second get your kitchen cleaned as fast as you can because this is when the fun really starts.

If you are doing all of the work yourself or you and your partner are tackling it then there is hopefully a whole house full of beds to make. So get round and do it. Most people I have spoken to find a system to follow the most helpful. At least to start make a list for each room what needs doing you will remember after a while and it is always useful for as a training aid should you be able to take on a cleaner when you get established.