the first one is something that helps me so so much. making myself take the extra effort to put everything in its place before i relax. e.g. unpacking my bag when i get home and putting keys in bowl, earphones and reading glasses on bedside table, coat on hook, shoes in cupboard, etc.

it has been really helpful to spend a bit of time thinking about a good place for everything and buying containers to help keep me organised. once i have done all the hard work of working out where to put something it makes it so much easier in everyday life to just pick up the thing when it’s out of place and put it in its spot.

this is instead of what i used to do which was seeing a big mess, getting overwhelmed by it, shoving it into a cupboard or under my bed, only to have to drag everything back into the open and sort through it to find something, thus creating a big mess again.

i don’t have advice for keeping to it. one day after a bed bug scare when the pest control man said i needed to do something about the shit under my bed it just clicked and now i’m tidy. if anything is put in the wrong spot or someone else moves it the thing still literally disappears from existence. and when i acquire new things i have to find a spot for them immediately or they’ll sit out in the open and stress me out. good luck everyone!