What If You're Already Doing it Right?

+ Share your fun Labor Day weekend book recs in the Chat

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🥰 You’re Already Doing it Right

📚 Come Hang Out in our New Chat Space!

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🥰 You’re Already Doing it Right

I love slow weekend mornings. Sometimes the rest of the family sleeps in, and I’m the only one up, and I get to linger over a mug of maple pecan coffee and do nothing but read. It’s such a wonderful, relaxing time.

Lately, though, my lazy weekend mornings have been spiked with more anxiety than usual. It’s not just the news headlines; it’s also all the other headlines, which seem to be multiplying in magnitude recently:

• “How To Plan the School Year So Your Kids Don’t Hate You”

• “The Only Way To Pack a Suitcase Without Pissing Off Flight Attendants”

• “If You’re Not Opening Your Milk Carton This Way, You’re Doing It Wrong!”

Oh, god… I’m 45 years old and apparently I don’t even know how to drink milk?!

But what if… You’re already doing it right?

The negative echo chamber of the internet wants us to feel bad about ourselves, to constantly feel like we need to fix ourselves, because otherwise, why would we click on their articles? Why would we buy their products?

But what if we do something revolutionary this weekend?

What if we just smile and shake our heads at their fear-mongering and say, “No, thanks, I’m good.”

• My kid will be fine without me micromanaging every minute of her life.

• The flight attendants don’t hate me; honestly, I’m not important enough for them to notice me, and that’s great!

• Also, opening milk is just opening milk… it all pours out one way or another.

So sit back, linger over your coffee, and enjoy just being You.

Because you’re already doing it right.

» Tell me in the Comments one thing you’re already doing right! (And then pat yourself on the back, because you’re amazing.)

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📚 Come Hang Out in our New Chat Space!

The long Labor Day weekend is almost here in the U.S., and all I want is to sit outside in the sun and read books for four days straight.

I also want to keep building our community, especially to welcome our many new subscribers here.

So I’m relaunching our Chat Space!

Please help me kick it off by recommending a fun book for summer before pumpkin spice consumes us all. 😆

» note: All subscribers can read and respond to Chat threads, although only paid subscribers can start new threads (this just helps me with moderation, so that internet randos can’t show up and post stuff.)

Can’t wait to hang out with you there! 💛

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