The ordinary thing that makes life easier is worth keeping even when it no longer feels new.

Improvements stop being noticeable quickly. The tool, the routine, the arrangement that solved a real problem becomes invisible once the problem stops occurring, and it starts looking like something that could be dropped. Boredom with a solution is not evidence that the difficulty has gone; usually it is evidence that the solution is working.

Before you abandon a habit or a system that has become dull, remember what life looked like before it. Keep the unglamorous things that quietly hold your week together, and spend your appetite for novelty somewhere it costs less.