Charge the headphones
An empty battery is always discovered at the wrong moment: on the bus, in the classroom or exactly when the noise becomes too much. The pictures below place charging where it belongs, in the evening routine, long before the consequence shows up.
♀Charge the headphones
A girl holds a pair of headphones with a cable, a lightning symbol shows they are charging.
About this visual support
Charging belongs to a particular category of tasks: the ones you only notice when they have not been done. Plugging in a cable takes five seconds and offers no perceived benefit in the moment, while the missing charge costs a whole day without noise reduction. Tasks with that profile are almost always forgotten, however important they are.
Visual support works precisely because it does not rely on motivation. One picture at the end of the evening row, between tooth brushing and reading, makes charging part of a chain that is already running. The body follows the order, and the step gets done without anyone having to remember it.
A concrete tip is to keep the charger in one fixed place, ideally where the headphones are put down anyway, rather than moving it between rooms. A cable that is always in the same spot requires no decision. In Routined the last step of the evening can sit as a reminder with a picture, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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