While researching Atomic Habits, I found a story that directly smitten Maine with its simplicity and power.
It was the story of Lee Harvey Oswald Nuckols, Associate in Nursing IT developer from town, Mississippi, and his easy strategy for creating future habits straightforward.
Nuckols refers to the approach as “resetting the room.”
For instance, when he finishes watching television, he places the remote back on the TV stand, arranges the pillows on the couch, and folds the blanket.
When he leaves his automotive, he throws any trash away.
Whenever he takes a shower, he wipes down the toilet while the shower is warming up.
(As he notes, the “perfect time to clean the toilet is right before you wash yourself in the shower anyway.”)
This might sound like he's just “cleaning up” but there is a key insight that makes his approach different. The purpose of resetting each room is not simply to clean up after the last action, but to prepare for the next action.
“When I walk into a room everything is in its right place,” Nuckols wrote. “Because I do this every day in every room, stuff always stays in good shape . . .
People assume I exerting however I’m really very lazy.
I’m just proactively lazy. It gives you so much time back.”
I have written antecedently regarding the facility of the setting to form your behavior.
Resetting the room is one way to put the power back in your own hands. Let's talk about how you can use it.
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