Moving into your own place is the best chance to build new habits. Nobody’s expecting the old you there.

Habits are held in place by rooms and people as much as by willpower. In your old house, every surface and every person has a memory of how you do things, and that memory pulls. A new place has no opinion about you yet, which is a short and useful window.

Moving somewhere new, choose two habits before you unpack and build the room around them: where the shoes go, where the phone charges overnight. Set them in week one, while nothing has hardened. The window closes quietly, so use it early.