Strange thing a guy said to me in a mental ward that had a lot of wisdom to it

He said "Program yourself" like write yourself programs for you to follow like a computer. It sounded absurd at the time. Though now I realized it would be handy to think that way for routines. I'm kind of doing it now when I enter my room and tidying my room. When you're starting a routine it has to have some point and the action has to be specific and there has to be a goal to the behaviour.

So when I enter my room I:

When enter door way
look at room
Anything out of place? If yes tidy up
Any trash? If yes discard
is the trash full? If yes take it to the bigger trash
Every once in awhile go through drawers and find bigger items to discard.
If nothing to do then sit down.

Sounds kind of nutty but it makes things a lot easier because I never have to spend long cleaning up.  

So the next habit I want to add it drinking water. Since I figured drinking water would help so many things including my brain, since the brain is mostly water so Id be able to sleep better if I had more water in my system. 

Many chemical processes in the brain rely on having enough water. Otherwise your cognition goes down. I'm on medication that changes the blood flow in my brain like Divalproex so I need more water than I usually do because otherwise medication is gumming up certain neurotransmitters. I cant speak to it because I'm not a neuroscientist. But I know anticonvulsants affect the blood flow and certain neurotransmitters like GABA. Water in the system effects blood flow in theory.

So what I'm going to do is drink water when ever I sit down and keep the water bottle full constantly. So I'll be mindful of the level of the water bottle. Also drink extra water the more caffeine I drink as I pee.