For example, consider the case of a woman named leni do For two and a half decades during her adult life, starting when she left for school and extending into her 40s, Leni never made her bed except for when her mother or guests dropped by the home.

At some point, leni decided to give it another try and managed to make her bed four days in a row.However, on the morning of that fourth day, when she completed making the bed, leni also picked up a sock and folded a few clothes.Next, leni found herself in the kitchen, pulling the dirty plates out of the sink and loading them into the dishwasher, then reorganizing the Tupperware in a cupboard and placing an ornamental pig on the counter as a middle piece.

She later explained, “My act of bed-making had set off a chain of small household tasks… I felt like a grown-up—a happy, legit grown-up with a made bed, a clean sink, one and a pig on the counter. I felt like a woman who had miraculously pulled herself up from the energy-sucking Bermuda Triangle of house hold