What happens when the season starts asking for you again.
Every October the calendar fills back up. School, work, the light going earlier, everyone needing something. This issue is about the thing that quietly disappears first, which is usually whatever you were doing for yourself. Not a plan to do more. Just a few ways to keep hold of what you had. Gina
The busiest seasons are exactly the ones where you get handed back to everyone else, one small thing at a time.
What the head-forward, shoulders-rounded shape actually costs you, and how it comes undone.
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A minute to undo the desk. The simplest place to start when everything sits forward.
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The meals for the weeks that fall apart. Not a failure plan, just the one you actually use.
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Deep, savory, and better the next day. The pot that carries you through a cold week.
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Warm, soft, barely sweetened. Autumn in a dish, and it takes almost nothing.
Read →“Every fall I start strong and by November I have stopped. How do I keep it going this time?”
Because you are building it for the version of you who has time, and she does not exist in October. Build it for the busiest version of you instead. If the plan only works on a good week, it is not a plan, it is a hope. Ask what you could keep on your worst week, then make that the whole commitment. Ten minutes you actually do beats forty you keep rescheduling. The women who are still going in February did not have more discipline. They just asked less of themselves and never stopped.
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October is the month everything starts asking for you again. The calendar fills, the light goes, and the first thing to quietly disappear is whatever you were doing for yourself.
That is the moment worth noticing. Not because you should push harder, but because it is exactly when women hand themselves back one small piece at a time and call it being busy.
The pieces in this issue are the how. The Leap is the decision underneath them, the one you keep circling and have not quite made.
Your Own Compass →That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to catch GLOW Minutes on Instagram, and I’ll see you soon.
Gina
