Keeping hold of what matters while the routine goes sideways.
Summer undoes routines, and that is partly the point of summer. Guests, travel, long evenings, nothing where you left it. The trick is not to hold the whole structure together through August. It is to pick the one or two things that keep you feeling like yourself, and let the rest be loose until September. Gina
Pick the two things that keep you feeling like yourself. Let the rest be loose.
The honest minimum, what it maintains, and why two steady days beat four you keep rescheduling.
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Every move from the last nine issues, in order, in about ten minutes. This is the one to take away with you.
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Restaurants, other people’s houses, a week away. How it works when you are not the one cooking.
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Whatever the garden or the market gives you, hot grill, good oil, salt. It feeds however many turn up.
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Barely a recipe, which is the correct amount of effort for late June.
Read →“Every summer I fall completely off and spend September starting over. How do I stop doing that?”
Stop trying to keep all of it. The routine you follow in February will not survive a house full of people and a week away, and when it breaks most women do not scale it back, they drop the whole thing and wait for the fall. So decide now, while it is still calm, what your minimum is. Mine is ten minutes in the morning and enough protein at breakfast. That is it, and it is not a compromise, it is the version that survives. That is the whole difference between coming back in September and starting over in September.
Have a question you’d love me to answer? Write to me, I read every one, and the best land in a future issue.
Summer has a way of making everything feel temporary. The rules relax, the calendar empties out, and it seems as though the real work starts again in the fall.
It does not have to. The loose months are unusually good for the question underneath, because there is finally a bit of room to hear it.
Take something with you this time, even if it is only on paper.
The Leap Worksheets →That’s it for this month. Don’t forget to catch GLOW Minutes on Instagram, and I’ll see you soon.
Gina
