How to avoid a stressful tomorrow
Oh, hi friends!
Sooo, every time this newsletter doesn’t arrive at 7:30 a.m. Brooklyn time, that usually means one thing:
My previous day was unstructured or busy with deadlines, leaving me to write this newsletter at the very end of the day, where I inevitably fall asleep in an ice cream coma before even attempting to start.
That sounds very specific, but it’s more or less true. And over the last 300+ newsletters, I’ve had to learn the same lesson, over and over again:
When I push a task to the end of the day, it becomes tomorrow’s problem.
Of course, that means I get a little relief today. Yay! One less thing to do!
But it also means I wake up the next day faced with something that has a ticking clock.
That's why I’ve tried to get better at quickly ripping off Band-Aids (writing this newsletter isn’t painful like that, so is kind of a faulty analogy, but you get what I mean!).
I want to get more done today if only to have a freer tomorrow.
“My life is completely out of balance, and that forces innovations of time management and solution finding. I don’t want to downplay people who have everything under control, but I can tell you this: I look forward to what the next day may bring because I have no idea what will land in it.”
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You might not agree with him, but I’m obsessed with Neil deGrasse Tyson’s counterintuitive time-management advice. From my "Money Talk" interview with him in this month’s MONEY.
How do you make friends as an adult?!
This four-minute video by the author Hank Green is worth watching, but basically his advice is to keep trying. Not every sweaty, awkward small-talk social situation will lead to a blossoming friendship, but eventually one will. And that’s worth it.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara