Design the Place

Keep your running kit in a drawer upstairs and you’ll go less often than if it sits by the front door. Same person, same intention, different week. Every step between the cue and the action is a chance for the goal route to cut in with ‘maybe tomorrow’.

So make the wanted action the easy next move where it happens: the guitar on a stand rather than in its case, the book on the arm of the chair, the gym bag packed by the door. Keep it to your own space, though. Kit that blocks a hallway, a doorway or someone else’s route makes a new problem for the people you live with.