Cleaning My Kitchen 1. Health and Safety: I need to prevent bugs, bacteria, and mold from spreading or growing. 2. Comfort: I want to have plenty of space to cook and do my hobbies on the kitchen island. It’s easy to sit down for family dinner when the table is clear. 3. Happiness: I like the way my kitchen looks when the counters are clear.

Bathing/Showering 1. Health and Safety: I need to remove dirt and dead skin cells from my body. 2. Comfort: I want to have clean hair so I can look nice and not feel greasy. To smell nice and feel confident in public. 3. Happiness: I like to be able to relax, to focus on myself, and to read a book in the tub.

Floors 1. Health and Safety: I need to remove tripping hazards and prevent bugs, mold, and bacteria from spreading or growing. 2. Comfort: I want room for kids to play; I don’t like bits of dirt sticking to my feet when I am barefoot. 3. Happiness: I like the way the room looks when the floors are clean and mopped. Feels peaceful.

I realized that I only ever wanted to be skinny because I wanted to be loved and happy.

I so often look back on these seasons of limping through and say to myself with tenderness, “Wow, I was really doing the best I could with what I had.” And that’s the funny thing about doing your best; it never feels like your best at the time. In fact, it almost always feels like failing when you’re in it. When I look back at sixteen-year-old me i

This list is here to serve me; I do not serve this list. This schedule is here to make my life easier, not to make it harder. The schedule isn’t for telling me what I must do or reminding me about what I haven’t done. The way it serves me each day is by taking the burden of decision-making away. I don’t have to feel as though I have to clean everyt

You do not have to wait to care about your body to care for your body. In fact, caring for your body can often cause you to start liking it more.

A really common defeating message that we say to ourselves is “What’s the point of picking up? It’s just going to look like this again tomorrow.” I find this stems from that binary view of care tasks that they can be only either done or not done and that done is the superior state. But keeping everything done isn’t the point. Keeping things functio

For a lot of people, finding a method that bypasses the most executive functioning barriers or that makes a task a little less intolerable is better than what’s “quickest.” In the end, the approach that you are motivated to do and enjoy doing is the most “efficient,” because you are actually doing it and not avoiding it.