Turn on the aquarium
The aquarium light follows a different clock than the house does. The fish need light and dark at roughly the same times every day, but nobody in the family notices if it does not happen. The pictures below make the invisible step visible.
♀Turn on the aquarium
A person presses a switch on an aquarium with two orange fish, plants and a lit lamp.
About this visual support
Some tasks nobody reminds you about, because nobody notices they are missing. The aquarium light is one of them: the fish do not complain, the light is on no schedule, and the effect of a missed day only shows after several. That makes the task harder than a chore somebody asks about, because here there is no external reminder at all.
Visual support becomes the reminder that otherwise does not exist. A picture among the other morning steps gives the aquarium a place in a routine that is already used, instead of being a separate memory to keep alive. The same picture works in the evening for switching off, so both ends of the day get done.
A concrete tip is to tie the light to something that already happens every morning, breakfast for instance. Two things at the same time require only one memory. In Routined the aquarium can sit as a small step morning and evening, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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