Hester Grainger

Because you just forget about it.

Literally, you shut the cupboard.

It's the same when you write things on a notepad.

So if you wrote like a cleaning schedule out on a notepad, the minute you shut the notepad, that list no longer exists.

You have to have it open.

You have to have it on a whiteboard, maybe with or without the raccoons you mentioned earlier, you know, a clipboard on the fridge, something like that, that's then open and then you can see it.

So if you are going to write down a cleaning list of things that you want to do, actually make sure it's there because that object permanence is going to kick in as well with lists, et cetera, on notepads.

yeah do you mean with object permanence with the stuff that you want in your life but you don't want to put it away you don't want to put it in that cupboard because you literally might risk forgetting that it exists i think it's perfectly okay to have it out as long as it is as long as there's a place for it i don't think what then happens is people then think actually do you know what i'm going to buy some more storage solution because that's actually what the issue is and actually it might be that you've got so many things and it's

that's not the issue at all so you probably need to have a bit of a clear out but actually it's perfectly okay to have certain things out like vitamins that you know you're going to need to take every day and you're just going to forget that they exist but i think the problem happens when you then the vitamins are not where they normally should be on the sideboard they have somewhere else and you've moved them and that's where they don't live and then that's when your system becomes a mess because you just keep putting everything in there because you're worried you're going to forget everything

Yes.

So for example, you need water with vitamins.

So you probably need them in the kitchen where it's near the glass, where it's near the water.

But also don't forget that maybe actually your routine is to take your vitamins first thing in the morning.

So actually, would it make sense to have them by your bedside table?

So when you wake up in the morning, that's the first thing you do.

It's about creating routines that work for you.

even if they maybe look a bit strange to other people.

It doesn't matter, does it?

No one else is going to know.

But actually, if that's where you take it, if you have your vitamins, or maybe you have them last thing at night.