How to shake up your routine
Oh, hi friends!
I’ve been trying to juggling quite a few priorities. I’m sure you are, too.
It’s so easy to feel pushed from thing to thing to thing. But the larger question to ask is: Do you feel in control? And what would it take regain control?
Maybe it’s working on little productivity hacks. Or maybe it’s completely rethinking how you structure your life.
What is set in stone but shouldn’t be? If you can’t wake up earlier, can you exercise at night? What if you transformed into a night-time showerer?! What would that look like?! It sounds silly, but a little change like that could tweak your entire week.
What if you walked to work, or started buying your lunch, or bringing your lunch, or changed neighborhoods, or only checked emails at noon and 5pm? What if you turned all your electronics off at a certain time? What if you didn’t drink on weeknights? What if you said “no” to everything for a week? What if you stopped drinking coffee? Or drank more coffee?
I just feel like questioning all the assumptions and ingrained practices we have in our lives could be…interesting. Right?
Because maybe what was working for you then is broken now.
Instead of clinging to your old ways, what might happen if you changed?
What might you shake loose?
Because sometimes you need to look at pillows of Balthazar bread.
From @cindyaugustine
“Well, Tenn, as somebody said once: Keep Breathing. Inhale and exhale, don’t neglect your food and have some good swims. These dark days will pass, even though at the moment things look black. You’ve had a rough life, not the glamorous ease that is supposed to go with success, but look at the wonders that have come out of it. And I don’t just mean the great plays and the beautiful poems and the stories that cut through to the truth, but also the hundreds of kind things you have done for people, and can still do. You are a good human being, Tenn, and don’t forget it. You mean a lot to a lot of us, as well as the public, and we want you around for a long time.”
Even Tennessee Williams received bad reviews. James Laughlin, his publisher and longtime friend, sought to cheer him up with this letter. Good advice for the next blow that strikes you. (h/t Black-Footed Cat)
These hidden details of the New York Public Library blew my mind. What a clever and well-executed idea! (h/t Carl Zurhorst)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara