Go to the hallway
The hallway is the bottleneck of the morning. Shoes, jacket, hat, bag and keys all have to fit into a few square metres, often with two people in each other's way. The pictures below give that last stretch an order, so nobody has to hold the list in their head.
♀Go to the hallway
A girl walks through a doorway into the hallway, an orange arrow showing the way.
♀Go out into the hall
A person walks towards an opening with an arrow showing the direction.
About this visual support
The last stretch before the door contains more decisions than the rest of the morning. The weather decides the jacket, the day's schedule decides the bag, and something always has to be fetched from another room exactly when everyone else is ready. Things go wrong here not because the steps are hard but because they are many and happen under time pressure.
Visual support makes the sequence visible on the spot. A row hanging in the hallway works for everyone passing through, including adults whose minds are elsewhere. The order also means nobody has to take their shoes off again to fetch something forgotten deeper inside the flat.
A concrete tip is to place the item most often forgotten last in the row, keys or a water bottle for instance. Whatever stands last gets extra attention right before the door opens. In Routined the hallway can close the morning routine, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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