Plotting out your day
Oh, hi friends!
Deep breath.
Hello, Wednesday.
If this is your morning, look at the next eight hours of your day. How will you fill them?
Literally, from 8-9am, 9-10am, 10-11am, and so on. How will you use them?
And if you’re reading this in the evening, how are you planning to close down the night?
Let’s think about it now before they start to get pulled away.
Hour by hour.
Deep breath.
Be deliberate.
Let’s go.
I flipped open to a random page in Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss and saw this quote from Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, which I underlined and starred a few years ago:
“This is the big misconception that people have, that [in the beginning] a new film is the baby version of the final film, when in fact the final film bears no relationship to what you started off with. What we’ve found is that the first version always sucks. I don’t mean this because I’m self-effacing or that we’re modest about it. I mean it in the sense that they really do suck.”
THIS IS EXTREMELY COMFORTING. (just me?)
If You’re in the In-Between Space
I found this six-minute birthday video from Mel Robbins to be valuable and, well, real? She talks about feeling stuck between her pre-pandemic life and her current life, and seemingly having nothing to look forward to. Her advice:
1. Recognize and name the feeling (i.e. you’re stressed, you’re overwhelmed, you’re bored)
2. Move your body.
3. Do one thing that makes you happy.
4. Do a brain dump (get out everything on your mind)
5. Use the mantra “this is temporary.”
Use one, use them all, use them when they might be relevant. I know I will!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara