This article is an extract from Atomic Habits, my New York Times top rated book.
While exploring Atomic Habits, I went over a story that quickly hit me with its effortlessness and force. It was the narrative of Oswald Nuckols, an IT engineer from Natchez, Mississippi, and his basic methodology for making future propensities simple.
Nuckols alludes to the methodology as "resetting the room."
For example, when he completes the process of sitting in front of the TV, he puts the distant back on the TV stand, masterminds the cushions on the love seat, and overlap the cover. At the point when he leaves his vehicle, he discards any rubbish. At whatever point he cleans up, he wipes down the latrine while the shower is heating up. (As he noticed, the "ideal chance to clean the latrine is directly before you wash yourself in the shower at any rate.")
This may seem as though he's simply "tidying up" yet there is a key understanding that makes his methodology unique. The motivation behind resetting each room isn't just to tidy up after the last activity, however to plan for the following activity.
"At the point when I stroll into a room everything is in its ideal spot," Nuckols composed. "Since I do this consistently in each room, stuff consistently remains fit as a fiddle . . . Individuals think I try sincerely yet I'm entirely lethargic. I'm simply proactively lethargic. It gives you such a great amount of time back