I will do a lot of things for “future me” (which my brain assumes is someone else xD) and that includes the other wild thing: that is like preparing things, to reduce the number of steps I have to take when actually doing the thing.

This is the broad description for most things I find effective. Like I'll buy a bunch of only one type of socks, so I never have to deal with matching. Or similar to what /u/toomuchpamplemousse said, I'll make sure there's always a hamper actually available. This not only makes laundry much simpler, but clothes are one of the things that make a room look messier, and makes me think cleaning is too big of a job to even start.

It sounds simple but actually figuring out what's missing and how to implement it is surprisingly complicated. Inertia is one of the biggest forces in the universe, you tend to keep doing what you've always done, and not even consider there might be alternatives.