Replaying a Tuesday conversation until Friday
It’s Friday, and part of you is still in Tuesday’s meeting. You know the one. The conversation went fine — probably fine — but there was that one…
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The Sunday-evening stomach ache
When I was a boy, Sunday evenings had a feeling all of their own. The weekend would be winding down, the light going, and somewhere around early evening it…
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You don’t have to earn your rest
Somewhere along the line, rest became a wage. You don’t just rest, do you? You *earn* rest. Enough jobs done, enough people looked after, enough boxes…
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Driving the whole way home and remembering none of it
You remember leaving. You remember arriving. Somewhere in between, a capable adult handled twenty minutes of traffic — made the turns, stopped at the…
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What’s actually holding you back
By now, you’ve tried everything sensible. The planners. The systems. The early starts. The course on habits, the book about discipline, the fresh Monday…
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Why you can’t sit still on holiday
Day two. That’s usually when it shows up. You’ve made it — the leave was booked months ago, the out-of-office is on, the pool is right there. You’ve been…
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Three seconds of fury, three days of guilt
For most of my life I’d have told you I wasn’t an angry person. I was quietly proud of it. Other people lost their tempers; I stayed calm. Everyone said so.…
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I got nervous every time I felt happy
Every so often, a day would go genuinely well. And somewhere underneath the pleasure of it, right on cue, came a low hum of unease.