How to make Monday feel like the weekend
Oh, hi friends!
The weekends feel different, maybe a little more free, because we have fewer inputs.
Fewer emails, obligations, even fewer news stories to consume.
On Sunday, you take a little longer making dinner or watch an extra episode of that show. You might breathe a little more deeply.
I wonder if now weekdays could feel like that, too?
Maybe all it takes is being a little choosier about our inputs.
We can’t stop what’s coming at us, but we can decide when to take it in.
Before you turn to something new today, ask yourself: Is now the best time for this?
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
That’s Virginia Woolf from A Room of One’s Own.
Ah heck, here’s the rest of the quote, too: “But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.”
A mere flea-bite!
Essential Monday Inspiration
The sheep have arrived at Shafer Vineyards in Napa Valley, where they’re chowing down between the vine rows. This is a very peaceful six hours to have on in the background of your work day. Six hours? Yes, this YouTube video is six hours long. Go for it — or you could watch for six minutes, and then turn back to your own work as eagerly as the sheep do to theirs. (h/t Caitlin Collins)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara