Someone shares their habit of leaving the house fourteen times before actually leaving, forgetting keys, phone, and water bottle each trip. They use a checklist app to catch themselves before walking out the door, and emphasize self-compassion over perfectionism.
Chapters
Why can't I get into this vehicle? Because I have the keys from the other vehicle. Like, why is this not working? I can't start the car. I'm hitting the start button. Why isn't it working? And trying it 20 times before you realize you have the wrong keys. Oops, wrong vehicle. Yeah. Or walking out without your purse, walking back inside to go get your purse, walking out and realizing you now don't have your phone, having to walk back inside to go now get your phone. And now you left your purse behind that you took in with you to go get your phone, and now you have to go back in for that. And then you forgot your water bottle, and then you forgot your support drink, and it's 14 trips inside. You really do have to release that tension. And I think that's something that, well, if I just did things right in the first place and I got it right the first time, I wouldn't be so frustrated. That's not a reality for us. No, it's not. And so that's okay. Right. So how do you accommodate those things? I have, I have a thing before I leave and my app, my phone knows when I'm leaving the house. I love technology. Sometimes it's a little creepy, but I love it. And if I have an appointment on my schedule, it will ask me if I have everything that I needed before I go to my appointment. It's just, do you have everything you need before your appointment? We do forget. We're easily distracted. We're overstimulated. And overstimulation can cause us to forget things and cause us to be late because we had to go back into the house 12 times for the 12 things that we forgot. But that's okay. Being able to laugh at yourself or, or having tools built in so that those incidences don't even come up.