Stop Tripping Over Your Own Shoes

How to make systems work for you and what to do when they don’t

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My coat closet is fifteen feet away from my front door.

In theory, fifteen feet seems like a perfectly reasonable distance. The average American walks that far almost 900 times in a single day, so surely I can spare one of those trips to put my shoes away when I get home…