For when you’re bogged down
Oh, hi friends!
Are you bogged down?
By the the workday scraps that always linger, the must-dos, the should-dos, the crap-I-didn’t-dos? The people you have to talk to, the answers you’ve gotta provide, the Slacks, the emails, the texts? The commitments, the obligations, even the fun stuff?
It’s OK.
I am, too!
And we’ve always managed before, right? Which means we know how to get through this time.
One strategy that’s always worked for me, which soooomehow seems to slip away, is ridiculously simple.
Let’s call it the one-thing strategy.
All you do is…one thing at a time.
When you finish, you move on to the next. No bouncing from checking your phone to reading an email to half-heartedly starting to write a story.
You do one thing. At a time.
Then you do another.
I dunno. It actually works!
What’s your trophy?
Photo by Ariel Besagar on Unsplash
Mel Brooks has been in “the business” for 75 years. This is how he stays sharp…
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In the early ’60s, [Carl] Reiner asked the 2,000-Year-Old Man the secrets of living so long a life. Brooks cited the excellence of nectarines (“half a peach, half a plum, a hell of a fruit … even a rotten one is good”) and the importance of staying out of small Italian cars.
In his office, Brooks now says, “Walk a mile a day and stay alive, sing Broadway songs, you’ll live forever. And the last thing,” he added mysteriously, “is chicken chow mein.”
“Do you ever think about dying?”
“All the time.”
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BRB off to order chicken chow mein and take a mile-long walk. A great profile of a hard-working guy. (h/t Brother Eric)
Broadway's next Evan Hansen is 16-year-old Andrew Barth Feldman. This New York Times profile digs into what he’s been up to while, um, attending high school. (Creating his own theater company and performing in five shows at a time, for starters.)
But this clip of him singing from The Jimmy Awards—basically the high school equivalent of the Tony Awards, and he won, of course—sort of says it all. This kid is a star!
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Love, Kara