Scaling back (or something like it)

Oh, hi friends!
 
What is your best effort today?

Do you know what that looks like?

And…are you being realistic? (Sometimes this is my flaw—saying, of course I can edit three stories, answer 16 emails that are equally important and require equally thoughtful replies, work on my top-secret project, and dream up perfect song lyrics…in two hours. LOL.)

I’m not saying to scale back from what you need to do, but to consider at the end of the day, what your “best effort” would look like and feel like.

What do you truly need to have finished by 5pm today?

And then, simply, focus on that.

Photo by Danny Sunderman on Unsplash

This is very calming.

“People who hold onto unused gym memberships, for example, might avoid canceling because it feels like giving up on their fitness. People who let unread copies of The New Yorker pile up might view canceling as a confession that they’re not intelligent. People who are hesitant to cancel Adobe Creative Cloud may be writing an article about it because they fear losing their job.”

I read Julia Glum’s MONEY piece on why she can’t stop wasting money on subscriptions she never uses a few weeks ago, and I’m still thinking about it! Our subscriptions are so identity-based. 

But after actually absorbing the advice of her experts and in the interest of eliminating things that no longer serve me, I finally (finally) unsubscribed to Moviepass (and canceled Hulu too, only because Spotify and Hulu are running a deal where you can get both for $10 a month, so I re-subscribed under that deal).

ANYWAY. The point is…if I can let go, you can, too. 

My friend (and frequent lunch-eating partner) Tari is getting married this weekend! She just told me the backstory of the bird featured on her wedding invite—and now I’m obsessed with the American woodcock. For a morning smile, here he is, in all his fantastic glory (turn the sound on!).

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara