Find the groove, kill the routine
Oh, hi friends!
How many of us, just a little over a year ago, would have said we were searching for a good sleep routine or an energizing morning routine or work-life balance routine?
Now, after so much same-same-same, routine has gotten a bad rap.
So wouldn’t it be more fun to…kill the routine? To blow everything up?
Because what I think we were previously looking for was a groove.
Something that helps you grow, makes you feel good, and reassures you that everything will be OK.
If you’re bored or uninspired, you might need to kill your routine and find a new groove instead.
How can you kill your routine today?
What would be a completely different way to spend your day — or even one hour?
Try it — try something.
At least it will be different.
"Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—'Homer, I don’t want you to do that.' 'Then I won’t do it.' Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight."
From this long, worthwhile, entertaining interview with Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder. Read this advice a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since — and even put it into practice once!
Waving Through Your Window
Twitter is in a tizzy over the trailer for the Dear Evan Hansen movie adaptation. (A tizzy is rarely positive…) Watch and form your own opinion! The film comes out September 24. In THEATERS. (My opinion is excitement. A rising tide lifts all boats.)
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Love, Kara