“If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.”
I LOVE this advice!! I’d heard variations of this over the years, i.e., if your home is kept neat and well organized, so the rest of your life will be as well, that’s where it all starts.
Who doesn’t love to come home to a made bed? My mother demanded that the beds be made and the dishes cleaned before we left the house in the morning or when going on vacation. I remember hating it with a passion but loved coming home to a neat environment.
A wise colleague once told me he could tell a lot a person from looking at how they kept their cars, especially the inside. Didn’t matter if the car were a new Mercedes or an old beater, if it was neat, clean and well maintained, that person’s entire life were as well.
I’ve never forgotten this.
Absolutely, messy cars have to potential to contain too many traces of evidence.