It could . . .

 Habit sessions.

Work while messy.

If I was to sit down in a meeting/ on a zoom call with people I would start with getting to know them.

I'd ask their names, what is important to them in life, times they had victories.

Then I'd ask about burnout. 

What stresses you out? When are you just finished with life? How often do you look at that dishwasher, at that floor, at that sink, and just feel like a failure.

Sure, you could get all the new and fancy electronics, a maid to clean it, or yell at the kids. But do you have to?

Do you have to end the day feeling yet again like you only halfway made it? No. You don't.

When you have bad days, mentally, emotionally, and socially, it doesn't have to stop you.

No, you don't always have some giant life crisis, sometimes it's all just to much. There comes a point where it's to much to be worth caring about.

So don't, but not in a way that ends in you throwing your hands in the air while someone complains yet again about a mess they helped create. Prepare.

Prepare by training your muscles, by using the memory space in them to take a load off your brain. 

Then. No matter what. You stick to that training. 

That dish goes where you put it, because you have practiced getting up from the table to go wash your plate so many times that you can ask your kid about a soccer game, hold a baby on one hip, and clean up after yourself all at the same time. And the best part?

Your child can do it to. 

That part cannot begin till you have done yours.

So right now, whether it be putting dishes in the dishwasher after getting up from the table, washing your face after getting out of bed, or taking a shirt off and dropping it in the laundry basket, practice. 

50 times. Start sitting at the table with a plate as if you just finished eating, or in your bed as if just waking up(don't fall asleep though it's only going to be ten minutes before we come back).

Go through the motion, the whole motion, and give yourself a breath of satisfaction after each one, resetting yourself and shaking out the tension. Then imagine a different night in the same place and do it again. 

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