I stopped leaving cleanup for morning and my shifts got better

Idk, maybe it's obvious, but doing it at closing means I start fresh. No more scrambling when customers show up early.

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That's such a real shift to make. What was the HARDEST part about switching your brain to do it at night instead of putting it off? Was it just tiredness, or did you have to fight the habit of thinking "future me will handle it" every single time?

hayden_williams1212h ago

I read about habit loops in a book by Charles Duhigg. The hardest part was fighting the daily thought that future me could just do it tomorrow. Tbh, tiredness made it easy to listen to that voice. I heard somewhere that willpower is lower at night, which made sense for my struggle. So I started by setting a timer for just five minutes to do one thing. After a while, my brain got used to the new routine, and it became less of a battle.