"Power Hour was only for those one-­time tasks that I kept postponing. **Something that can be done at any time is often done at no time**. I wrote: "Replace my broken office chair "Make a photo album of our vacation "Use up store credits "Donate books to Housing Works "Round up and recycle batteries and devices "For my first Power Hour, I tackled our long-­neglected shredder. We’d never had a shredder, then finally I bought one, which broke right away, so I bought a replacement—­and it had been sitting in a corner for months. I hadn’t been able to face reading the directions or figuring out how to plug it into the inaccessible wall socket, and in the meantime, I’d accumulated a gigantic pile of mail to be shredded. **The unused shredder bugged me, the pile of shred-­worthy mail bugged me, and the trivial matter of shredding was taking up way too much room in my head**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[environmental-design]] , [[mindfulness]] , [[habits]] **Source** -- [[20240806084000 - B - Better Than Before]]