On making your bed

You wake up from your sleep, you get up from your bed to go on about doing your morning routine, what is the first thing you do after getting off your bed?

If your answer was anything else but "make my bed" then that says a lot about your personality and your capability for discipline and keeping up with good habits.

Now, a long while ago, I came across a post somewhere on social media that talked about how you can follow a specific set of steps to help you build good habits and stick to them, one of those tips was "make your bed as soon as you get off of it". And for as long as I remember I already make my bed as soon as I get up, on a daily, but I have not paid attention to what that could mean and how that one simple action could be such a powerful tool in helping me become a better-disciplined version of myself. I just did it because it was kind of an automatic act that came naturally and I did not have to actively choose to do it.

See the science behind building a habit is that you have to actively choose to do and try to implement that habit into your daily routine, but to make that habit stick and become a stable part of your routine then you have to ingrain it into your already existing routine in a way that you wouldn't have to actively choose or think about it when you are doing it, it has to become an automatic reaction that does not require thinking.

Making your bed may seem like such a silly example, but it has everything to do with measuring your level of discipline. It is the first decision you make in the morning, and to be honest, it can feel like such a tedious job having to fix your sheets and fluff your pillows, and choosing to take a good five minutes of your day, every day, to make it takes a lot of will and mental and physical strength to be this disciplined.