One Tiny Habit that Led to Success

The Hoss Lady

Becky: You. Hello. Welcome to the Hoss Lady podcast, where I help you declutter your life and your home. Hey friends. It's Becky, the Hoss lady. How is everybody doing today? I am sitting in my office with my puppy in my lap who is snoring extremely loud. Hopefully, you can't hear it. If you can, I apologize. Or maybe it'll give you a good laugh, I don't know. So I wanted to talk today about a very, very simple thing, and it's actually what we're going to be focusing on in the month of May for our monthly challenge. Now, if you do not get my monthly challenge newsletters, you need to go out to www.thehosslady.com getstarted , and you will get on my email list, where you will get a monthly email newsletter talking about our monthly challenges. And this month of May, we are going to be doing the bedroom. So I don't know, and I think I've shared this, but I was diagnosed with ADHD about two years ago, and I have taught myself over the years, way before I was diagnosed, that having a good system in place is what's going to get me into productivity and perform at a higher level, right? So one of the systems that I started a few years ago is the bedroom. And I know a lot of people don't make their bed. And just hear me out for a second. I just decided one day that I was somebody who would make the bed every morning. And again, this might seem a little pointless, but guys, it changed my whole life because I used to be somebody who would snooze the alarm like 13 times before rolling out of bed, like, throwing on whatever outfit was clean. I would run a brush through my hair. If I was lucky, I'd have time to get together a lunch. And if I was even more lucky, I'd have actually time to sit down and have a cup of coffee. Very rarely, though. So I was either like, flying into the parking lot of work on two wheels, or I was beating myself up halfway down the road because I actually left on time but forgot something. And that happened a lot. But I started to realize that all of these things were choices. I was making these choices. I was doing this to myself. It wasn't the world against me. It wasn't that I had too much to do. It was that I was choosing to make my life complicated. And so I didn't really see the benefit of having a morning routine back then. I just didn't see it. And I just chose not to create one. But then I started listening to a lot of, like, self help, self development, future self work, and almost everybody, all the mentors out there talk about their morning routine and how important it is. So I was like, okay, let me give it a little bit of a try. Maybe I will create a good morning routine. So I thought, okay, if they can get up at 05:00 in the morning and have all this time to do everything they need to do and have a productive and amazing day, let's try it. So, hey, I set my alarm for 05:00 A.m. Next morning. I was like, what the ****? I hit snooze. The rest was history. So, okay, first time didn't go. So maybe second time. So I tried it again. Let's just try it again. Becky again. Next morning, 05:00 comes. I'm like, this is bull ****. So I hit snooze and then just repeat, repeat, over and over. And then I realized it's not me, it's my system. I have been so used to just reaching my arm across onto my nightstand and slapping this news button on my phone that I was not giving myself a chance to break that habit. I needed a pattern interrupt. Okay, so I needed a new system. So I had an idea. All right, I am going to put my phone on the other side of the room for when the alarm goes off. I will be forced to get out of bed to turn it off. Okay? So I did that. The first day I heard that alarm, I woke up, I was kind of like, Where's my phone? In a frantic search. And I jump out of bed. I was like, oh, yeah, it's across the room. I go over to the other side of the room, I turn off the alarm, I turn around, and I look back at my bed. And for a half a second I thought, I'm going to get back in. It's so warm. It's so cozy. But then I thought, no, I'm up. I'm going to make the bed right now. All it took was that one tiny moment of standing up and looking at that bed to completely change my trajectory for the rest of my life. I said no. Not anymore. I walked over to the bed, I made that bed, and it took less than 90 seconds to just pull the covers back, straighten the pillows, and my bed was clean. And the thought of getting back into it seemed destructive, not just to the beautifully made bed, but to my goals of being a productive person. So this month in May, I want to challenge you to make your bedroom your focus. And I'm not saying you have to wake up at 05:00 a.m. Or you have to have a morning routine. Nothing like that. What I want you to do is find a new habit somehow related to your bedroom, be it pick up your laundry off the floor every day, hang up your clothes every day, make your bed every day, hang up your jacket and your bags, clean out one drawer a night, whatever it is. Let's find one little thing that we can create a habit for in the entire month of May. Other suggestions? Are you could put a box in the corner. And every day this month, pull out one thing from your bedroom that you want to donate. I think a lot of people put off their bedroom till last. Like, if you're doing a home remodel or if you've moved into a new home, you go and you set up everybody else's rooms first or you decorate everyone else's rooms first and you leave your bedroom for last, because that's like the room nobody goes in. That's your room. Nobody goes in there. But just because your room is private, that's no reason to leave it off the list of spaces that you need to take care of. In fact, I would argue the bedroom is the one space in your whole house that you should be concerned above all. Because remember, guys, our bedrooms are the first thing we see every morning and the last thing we see every night. Do you want to wake up in chaos or do you want to wake up to productivity? Calm a clean slate, a let's do it attitude. These are the things that we need to talk about. So focus on one little bitty thing that you can do for the entire month of May. Share your journey with us on Facebook, clutter-free in 23 with the Hoss Lady is the name of the group if you want to get on my newsletter. Again. It's thehouslady.com get started. And that's it, guys. I will leave this short and sweet for today, especially because I'm very sure you can still hear my dog Snoring and bless him. All right, you guys have an amazing, amazing day. I will be back next week. We will be talking about how we are merging households. What? Yes. All right, guys, don't forget, we don't put things down, we put things away. So let's get to it. Hey, guys, thank you so much for listening to my Host Lady podcast. My name is Becky, and I cannot wait to share more ideas with you to help you get your environment and your mind to a more organized space. If you are interested in working with me one on one, visit my [e-mail]. If you enjoyed the podcast, leave me a review and share with your friends. Until next time, let's get to it.