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In fact, take a day off and do that - literally, it won’t be apparent to you, but take it from
like your friends say, you’re the boss, create your future self.
an excuse, a reason, a fake message on
the phone, and auto-reply to your email,
And then there is diet.
explaining today you will be out of contact for
personal/professional reasons, whatever. Tell
Do not fall into the trap of it’s quick it’s
them you have to defend your title as the pie- easy I don’t have time, and eat from cheap
eating champion of the state. Anything. And
restaurants or fast food joints, or just avoid
clarify your lives to yourself. You’ll see how
those and not take time to cook for yourself
relieving it can be once accomplished.
and end up snacking the whole time you work.
Find an excuse to dress up and smell pretty
Again, partition time, and either cook and
for “work” - it will give you a sense of striving
freeze portions, or buy big containers of, say,
for “normal”. At the same time, tell yourself
sauce, and pasta, and make those portions; get
you need to be ready just in case... of a knock
lots of greens and salads other than leafy stuff
on the door, a call to work some more, a
(which doesn’t keep, so make it a “treat”) - bean
surprise meeting with a customer you’ve been
salads, greek salads, whatever you personally
trying to score... you know it probably won’t
like, and build up a week-load in the fridge.
happen, but at the same time you can’t say
You won’t regret it and will fnd you have a
you aren’t warned if you aren’t prepared.
lot more energy than if you just quaff down
unhealthy, greasy, empty calories just because
Bathe. Really. Sitting in the same chair in the
they keep your belly from getting rumbly.
same temperature-controlled environment in
the same clothes, letting your hair grow, not
Now, all this isn’t going to keep you from
sweating, not “getting dirty” can lead you to
getting soft, going to pot, turning pale from
be very lazy about showering, shaving, the
lack of exposure.
whole hygiene thing.
Devote time to going outside, to taking walks
Don’t let it happen. Tell yourself your
if you aren’t the type to do treadmilling and
body is creating dead skin cells every hour
weight-pulling at the gym. Don’t do it to get
of every day, they’re building up inside that
bigger, better or stronger - you’ll need to do
shirt you’ve been wearing for three days,
it just to stay the same and not decline into a
everywhere.
pile of pudding on that chair with your fngers
Bathe. Do laundry. Vacuum. Sweep. Open mushing on a keyboard or swishing a mouse
the windows and let the breeze through. around.
Turning slovenly is easy when in these Get a bike. Forget you have a car (if you
circumstances, it’s just one of those things could afford one). Invest in good shoes. Make
you don’t expect and then one day you catch work-excuses to walk to meetings, make
a whiff of yourself and realize you haven’t calls, anything that will give you a modicum of
showered in a week... get busy, chopchop, it’s physical activity.
hardly a time-wasting chore...
You see it’s not all for nothing. It’s not just
Organize on the go. Especially receipts - a drag, a suffering and misery. You did in fact
everything that is a business expense goes in read all the way here, and came across some
that folder, everything personal in another (or things learned, some things earned, and some
chuck that stuff you can’t use it really). But steps and advice to take (which you won’t;
do it daily. Don’t accumulate and tell yourself I give it 50/50, but that’s okay), which you
you’ll sit down on the bed one evening at the would have to groaningly learn on your own. If
end of the month and sort it all out. it weren’t from me.

You won’t. Take it from your future self, you Take my word for it.
will learn the hard way that way. Do it now.
Today. There’s just a few pieces of paper to After all, it’s me. Your future self.
fle or print, not a month’s worth. You won’t
learn exactly since the negatives of not doing

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