Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books.

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

Actually, I probably have 30 binders at home. I have a lot of binders.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

Why on earth declutter when you can just shrinkwrap?

I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.

System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

In a good house all is quickly ready.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

I have schedules that separate everything.

I make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. Why do I need the instant oatmeal? I could get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.