So you don’t choose your whole week based on how you feel today
This story is for anyone who rewrites all their plans for the week every Monday morning.
Scenes
- I’m afraid I’ll cancel plans based on how I feel today — I keep erasing and rewriting this week’s plans on the calendar. I can’t tell whether today’s feelings are really pointing me somewhere.
- It’s not that I don’t want to go. I’m afraid I’ll be wrong — I think I’d feel relieved if I canceled, but then I might regret making the wrong choice, so my hand stops.
- I keep reworking all this week’s plans at once — Around seven Monday morning, I erase three plans, then bring them back. And the day hasn’t even started.
- Today’s wavering and what lasts are not the same — When reading the I Ching, we don’t start by asking what’s lucky or unlucky. We separate what’s moving now from the conditions that won’t easily change.
- Write one reason beside each plan — Beside each plan you want to erase, write one thing that changed today and one reason you still want to keep it. You don’t have to decide right away.
- Even if your feelings change today, that doesn’t mean the path was wrong — See whether the same plan still weighs on you after the day’s fatigue has lifted. When that happened, could you see both paths, or did one only come into view later?
Stories by Haewol
- Haewol
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- With so few customers, should I keep the shop open?
- Every Sunday night, I weigh living together against living apart again.
- At the dinner table, I try to choose the first sentence of my life.
- After hearing the request, I took a window seat on the bus.
- You pause mid-scroll, unsure whether to say anything
- I opened a book while waiting for the results.
- On your first day, you’re unsure how to balance your main job and side work.