By Gretchen Rubin
One of my Secrets of Adulthood is: What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. I’ve been surprised how often this “secret” comes in handy.
Exercising -- I have a friend who thinks she’s a regular exerciser because every several weeks, she goes to the gym for two hours. Nope!
Having enough time to read -- I used to think, "I love to read, it's my favorite thing to do! Of course I make time to read." But when I really examined my schedule, I realized I needed to clear out more time to read; day after day, it was getting shoved aside.
In his fascinating book, House Lust, Daniel McGinn notes that market researchers use the term maximum-use imperative to describe the fact that people will often buy something to accommodate a use that they need... More...
