How it started...
It’s been almost two years since I really started taking “productivity” seriously. I’ve always had a hard time getting as much done as I wanted to and I was stressed out all the time. The pandemic didn’t help. My daughter was born in March 2020 and for the next many months, home life was exhausting and my work in independent retail was stressful. I was tired, hormonal, scared, and simultaneously lonely and overwhelmed by spending all day every day with my family. I was barely keeping it together.
Then, in summer 2021, I read a random Twitter post about a fancy quarterly planner (more on that in a future post), and things slowly started to shift. I started listening to productivity podcasts, paying attention to how I was structuring my days, and thinking about my priorities. I slowly started adjusting my habits and my thinking. I started working more intentionally and setting boundaries more firmly. Things started to change. (Spoiler alert: I’m still stressed out a lot, but not as intensely and not as often.)
I’ve been exploring the productivity world since then and have learned and grown a lot. But I’ve been frustrated that too much of the content comes from men, and too much of it assumes a level of financial resources that don’t match my family’s reality. So here I am, hoping to share some of what I learned, and the way it’s affected my life as a mom and a boss and a partner and a person.
I don’t want this to just be a productivity newsletter, though. “Today Is Someday” is about me using all the things I’m learning and practicing to help allay one of my biggest fears: that I’ll put all the good stuff off until “someday” when things are “better” or “easier,” and that “someday” will never come. I hope to fill these posts with some of the things I’ve learned, alongside some of the things they have made possible.
Bringing me joy this week: All the coverage of the 2023 Boston Marathon, but especially the photos of the women’s winner, Hellen Obiri, with her daughter after the race.