WOW! Heather, I felt like you were writing this to me. Hard truths but very necessary. I did have a question about this, "I’ve also learned to embrace a firm schedule that doesn’t change from day to day based on my whims." —how did you do that? How do you do that without making lists? Without your bratty teenager saying, "I don't wanna, let's just check Instagram or listen to that podcast, instead."? How to balance the "what will feel good today?" with the consistent structure of getting things done?
LORD HAVE MERCY I copied "I’ve been haunted by a kind of neurotic self-awareness that, for brief stretches, caused me to audit my personality until I felt paralyzed" into my diary to explore further my own resonance with that sentence and then ended up utterly freaking out that this was written to me and I accidentally mailed Polly my diary instead. "You’re a person who believes in self-indulgence, religiously almost, and you’re also someone who has a tendency to punish yourself for not adhering to your very idealistic vision of how you should be." I MEAN, COME ON.
A huge problem is that there is So Much Good TV on and So Few Good Writing Ideas!
Yep, this is the one (not that there haven't been plenty of others, mind you). Thank you.
WOW! Heather, I felt like you were writing this to me. Hard truths but very necessary. I did have a question about this, "I’ve also learned to embrace a firm schedule that doesn’t change from day to day based on my whims." —how did you do that? How do you do that without making lists? Without your bratty teenager saying, "I don't wanna, let's just check Instagram or listen to that podcast, instead."? How to balance the "what will feel good today?" with the consistent structure of getting things done?
LORD HAVE MERCY I copied "I’ve been haunted by a kind of neurotic self-awareness that, for brief stretches, caused me to audit my personality until I felt paralyzed" into my diary to explore further my own resonance with that sentence and then ended up utterly freaking out that this was written to me and I accidentally mailed Polly my diary instead. "You’re a person who believes in self-indulgence, religiously almost, and you’re also someone who has a tendency to punish yourself for not adhering to your very idealistic vision of how you should be." I MEAN, COME ON.
A huge problem is that there is So Much Good TV on and So Few Good Writing Ideas!
Love it love it thank you so much!