I just recently cleared my place of much bullcrap and have consequently been able to keep cleaning up after myself moment to moment so it doesnt build up and its basically alwaya clean 🤩
Never use your phone in bed.
CBT (Cognitive behavior therapy). Get your your mind to associate bed with sleep, not with phone stimulation.
I like this one. Followed it last night.
Good one.
I actually bought an alarm clock so I could turn my phone off at night, and now, I want to get a step counter so I can keep my phone off when I’m not using it period.
Ooh. Nice.
Good one.
I touch the bed, I sleep. My wife often pauses her Netflix to cuss at me for that, but i usually don’t notice anything.
Taking a full breath of air before chugging liquids. I accidentally exhaled before choking on some water once, body naturally tried to pull in air and got more water. Very much felt like drowning.
Taking a shit at 3AM.
When walking by / through vehicles in a parking lot with things in my hands, I will make the conscious effort to pull my arms close to my body and prevent them swaying or moving with my normal walk. As well as moving items from one hand to the other if the car is on the side that was holding them. Nobody likes scratches and dings!
If I ever remove the spare tire from my car, I put air in it.
Probably not super helpful since most people don’t ever remove their spares or work on cars AND many new cars don’t even come with spares. But it helps me.
I have a hat.
The hat goes on when I leave the house or leave the office. Putting the hat on triggers me to stop for one second and actually think “Do I have everything I should have?” If I make it out of the house without the hat, I spend a proper minute or two double checking that I have everything because if I can forget the hat, I could forget anything.
It’s yer thinkin’ cap!
Putting stuff in a calendar. Now that I’ve started doing it, I’m not sure how people live without it. I have too much stuff going on to remember exactly when things are happening and some of them are scheduled weeks or months in advance. Everything has to go in the calendar app. For things that are further out, I set reminders one week and one day before. Other than that, I also check at the start of every week, and ofc I check whenever I need to schedule something.
Agree completely! I don’t know how people remember random Wednesday night plans without putting it on a calendar.
Plans just go in one ear and out the other unless I write them down immediately
This and the to-do list. My wife and I are totally committed to these. It really does make life a little bit easier.
org mode
learn from the mistakes of others
Having a place for things. Never having to look for “x”. Keys, wallet, which type of utensil goes in which slot in the silverware holder. I have saved so much time, avoided problems and given myself mental breaks by simply putting things where they’re needed and being consistent.
I second this.
It’s great having specific spots for things. I also have a specific bag for when I go to the gym with its own set of earbuds and other gym ephemera.
This was something I realised too (or similar). Having stuff also requires having space. If you don’t have space then you really shouldn’t have stuff.
When everything has its place, organisation, cleanliness and general liveability start to take care of themselves. And probably overconsumption and hoarding too.
It’s funny, because “insufficient space” or the “disregard to space” seem to be common themes for me in terms of how modern things are being done poorly.
If you don’t have space then you really shouldn’t have stuff.
You shut your pretty whore mouth!!!
nervously glances at my 6 tubs of amiibo and 4 tubs of G-Scale model trains in an apartment to small to sneeze in
Oh I’ve been there. I am there. I was not virtue signalling. It was a cry for help!
So much of modern life is about about inventory management.
I like old videos of tribespeople in tropical places. There’s always a guy just lying down in the jungle, doing nothing, with no stuff.
I’m trying to extend/apply this in a way that if I need to put down something, I think ahead of set places in the house where I put things. That way of I’ve left something somewhere, it’ll always be in one particular place in a room. That way I don’t have to look everywhere for a thing I just put down in order to do something. I only need to look at one or two spots in each room.
Get in the habit of getting into habits. My high school chemistry teacher turned me onto this. Make a point of doing something every day for a while and soon it will become hard NOT to do it.
Journaling.
It’s extremely powerful from mental health to actual planning tasks and keeping track of things but weirdly enough it can be difficult to get into.My best advice would be to make it as easy and as low stakes as possible at the beginning. Just open file/journal and write anything every day, even if it’s one word. Don’t worry about anything else. Then you can add and evolve this habbit to whatever feels useful to you.
Flossing I guess.
Water flossing! It’s like a bidet for your teeth.
I had one but the hose broke, so now it dispenses milk for the cat through the fridge door when we’re away.
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bidet for your teeth
I thought the instructions were clear, but here I kneel in the bathroom with a wet face, soaked shirt, and still a popcorn kernel stuck between my molars.
No, I think you got that right. Just keep going and you’ll get that popcorn kernel eventually.
At least you didn’t power wash the walls like I did the other day. Forgot where the off button was.
this is an important one. i nearly died when a tooth bacterial infection spread up my trigeminal nerve. not to mention the pain.
It reduces the risk of heart disease! Very important.
Remember, you are most likely to die from heart disease.
Really? How the heck does that work out?
The rubbish that gets into your teeth / gums can then get into your blood stream. From there it can travel to your heart and cause issues.
Well that’s good to know. Thanks!
You’ve already got a better answer, but let me encourage you to remember your circulation whenever you think of your dental health to help motivate you to build and maintain those good habits.
Flossing seems mundane, but really it’s helping you with the most important risk factors for the things that are most likely to kill us.
Eh. I always saw myself as most likely to die with a shotgun in my mouth, and pulling the trigger with my toes.
It’s not, it’s almond milk. Even the gray aliens won’t touch the stuff.
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I’m gonna join your Minecraft world and set up an auto crafter that crafts from an auto farm
Isn’t it nice knowing you can crack nuts with your ass? Gives power bottom a whole new meaning
If I’d done this while playing Stardew, my legs would be tree trunks by now
Factorio players Start sweating.
Paying attention to what you’re doing. Sounds simple but so many people don’t do it. They just keep doing the same thing and act surprised when it never works. If you pay attention to what you do and the outcome of your actions, you can improve everything you do and become very efficient.
I think this is related to meditation too. I always find it makes life feel more spacious and calm when I do it.
