Willpower won't tidy your home. Ask my cat.

Why the right thing in the right place beats trying harder

Ruby, my newly adopted 10.5 lb cat, is lying across my doorway again, blocking my path to the kitchen. She does this when she wants something that requires my thumbs.

And she timed it. I work from home and she studies me. First coffee is around 10:30. She’s in position at 10:25-ish. That’s the when.

Then there’s the where. She picks the doorway I have to…