Making the bed
The first completed task of the day, done before anything else
Pull the covers straight the moment you get up, every day, wherever you happen to be sleeping. Less about tidiness than about finishing one thing before the day can go sideways. Under two minutes, and it works in a hotel room too.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- Mel RobbinsDoes it
Author and podcaster · The Let Them Theory
The second step in her morning routine, and she says she does it everywhere: hotel rooms, her parents' house, her daughter's couch. Her reason is that an unmade bed is something incomplete she would see every time she walked back into the bedroom.
Source: The Mel Robbins Podcast: A Toolkit for Creating the Perfect Morning Routine
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