3 Reasons to Make Your Bed Every Morning

Want to know the lowest effort/highest reward task to start your day off with positive momentum?

Make your bed.

I make my bed every morning.

To be clear: I’m not talking about hotel-standard bed-making here. I’m talking simple: pull the covers on, straighten them out, place and fluff the pillows.

It takes less than 2 minutes.

At this point it’s an automatic action. In fact, it’s so engrained in my routine that I even make the bed when I stay at a hotel.

Making the bed is a low effort/high reward task that is worth doing for the immense psychological benefits it offers.

3 Reasons to Make Your Bed Every Morning

(1) Signal that You’re Starting Your Day

Making the bed tells me we are starting the day.

Once I’ve made my bed there’s no going back in until the evening. It signals to my brain that we are moving forward with the day.

(2) Start the Day With a Win

When I make the bed, I’ve started the day with a win. It kickstarts momentum for other things that can build on that win.

And even if that’s the only thing I did all day, I still get to notch the win.

Many people with ADHD often lack in confidence in our basic life skills. Feeling like I mastered this one thing helps me go into the day feeling empowered.

The big things are in the little things.

(3) It Makes Me Feel Good

Think about when you stay in a hotel and you come back and the bed is made.

It feels good to walk into a room with the bed made, especially at the end of the day.

Rather than thinking about making the bed as a chore that I should do because I’m an adult, I think of it as an act of self-care for future me.

I know how good I’ll feel later when I walk into my bedroom and see the bed made.

In this way, making the bed is something I do that affirms my self worth: I am worthy of feeling the pleasure of having a nice bed to come back to in the evening.

Do you make your bed every day?

Do you make your bed every day? I’m curious to hear from you and what your reasons are for making (or not making) your bed. Leave a note in the comments.