Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life by Gretchen Rubin

Author:Gretchen Rubin [Rubin, Gretchen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780385348621
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2015-03-16T23:00:00+00:00

One evening as I was puttering around the kitchen, I glanced over at Jamie, who was pulling a container of indeterminate leftovers out of the fridge. This familiar sight triggered me to think about the fact that people would be more likely to eat leftovers if the food was stored in an easy-to-open container, rather than in a hard-to-open container.

I sighed. All this thinking about the Strategy of Convenience, and habit formation in general, was taking up a lot of space in my mind. Especially given my Upholder Tendency, I had to remind myself to stay the master of my habits, and even of my thoughts about habits; I shouldn’t let them take over.

I looked again at Jamie, who’d come over to stand next to me to get a bowl out of the cabinet. It was an utterly ordinary moment, yet for some reason I was struck by his presence, by the fact of our marriage. We’d spent almost half our lives together. No one was closer to me, and he was standing right beside me—yet suddenly he seemed very far away. He glanced up, and he seemed to have some idea of what I was thinking; he didn’t say anything, but he smiled and took my hand.

I don’t want habit to deaden me to Jamie’s presence. I don’t want to take him for granted, to listen to him with only half my attention, to look at him without seeing him. I want my habits to help free me to pay more attention to him, and to everything else that’s important to me.

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