This is a three-in-one day

Oh, hi friends!

Something I've been mulling over in work-life recently is this:

A task expands to fill the time allotted to it.

(I would Google the exact origin of this, but honestly, that would make me go over the time allotted to this newsletter!)

What this means is — if you have all day to do something, it'll take all day. (I see you, fellow freelancers, with errands that somehow expand to fill an entire afternoon, whereas previously they might've taken 45 minutes after work.)

What this also means is — if you don't have all day, it won't take all day.

But then maybe we should look at what we consider a day.

I saw online somewhere — again, would Google it, but won't! — this one guy who considers his day to actually be three days.

This is less insane than it sounds.

There's pre-work (like 6am to 10am), work (10am-6pm) and post-work (6pm-midnight).

Not saying you need to spend every minute of each of these working, but what if you consider these three segments as holding time you can allot to whatever you want?

When you wake up, you can have a little day before your work day. And instead of leaving work and thinking, "The day's over," you could be saying, "The next part of my day is just beginning."

Because it's true. You get to decide.

"When you don't know what to do next, there is only the next right move.

Go find the next.
Take a right if you have to.
Above all else: Move."

On Friday I mentioned all the stories I wanted to read (still haven't, probably won't, and that's OK!) and a nice Brass Ring reader named Marsha Shandur reminded me of OneTab, which smushes together all your tabs into, you guessed it, one tab, in order to save memory and reduce all the visual clutter.
YA, I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT.

Here 'tis if it sounds like something you need!

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara