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.
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.
I like this one. Followed it last night.
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.
Before I sit down on the toilet, I take a piece of toilet paper en wipe the brim. Not that it makes that much of a difference of how clean the brim is. But since doing that I ALWAYS notice if the roll’s nearly empty. It’s just the heads up you need to check stock and fix a new one before it’s too late.
It was not easy to train, nor to keep, but meditation upon waking is vital to me now. I find whatever my biggest struggles are, money, relationships, work stress, family… those anxiety demons are waiting to pounce upon waking. If not, my phone will deliver fresh demons. So I claim my mind as my own before allowing any other influences to set a tone for the day. Start with a 10 minute guided practice from a voice you trust easily. Go from there.
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.
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.
Flossing I guess.
Water flossing! It’s like a bidet for your teeth.
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.
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I had one but the hose broke, so now it dispenses milk for the cat through the fridge door when we’re away.
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.
Eh. I always saw myself as most likely to die with a shotgun in my mouth, and pulling the trigger with my toes.
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.
It’s not, it’s almond milk. Even the gray aliens won’t touch the stuff.
Taking a shit at 3AM.
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.
This and the to-do list. My wife and I are totally committed to these. It really does make life a little bit easier.
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
I start everyday by slamming a 16 ounce glass of water. It sets up my day to be more alert and on top of things.
Force yourself to sneeze and cough inside your elbow all the time. Even when you’re alone. Then it becomes a reflex and you’ll protect those around you from infection a lot better.
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!
When I feel bad, I clean. If I’m going to feel like crap anyway, might as well get some use out of it.
org mode
learn from the mistakes of others
Kinda a boring one but gym. Started a couple of years ago once a week and had to drag myself there but after a month or two of that something flipped and now I go almost every day. It’s pretty fun and it’s great to notice the change in myself over the last couple of years. Now just need to do something about diet and sleep.
I second this. I am bad at breaking my habits or starting new ones so I just started going every weekday starting around the beginning of this year. I also started eating healthier. I feel freaking great. Lost 25lb, way more energy, joints don’t hurt as much… A lot of the “well, getting old sucks” things just went away after a while. Now that I’ve started the habit I have trouble not going to the gym.
That’s awesome! I was surprised at the shift between having to push myself to go vs having a natural pull to go. Definitely makes a huge difference and seeing/feeling changes happening is so motivating.
I went to the gym for 4 days… And wasted 26 days of subscription fees :/
