Sunday, 6pm, Monday already in your chest. This free two minute tool has you list it fast and sort each thing into mine, theirs, or nobody's. The mine pile is usually the smallest. Nothing stored.
Sep 8, 20264 min read
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Gouache illustration of a stack of tiffin dabbas with the words most of Sunday's dread isn't yours, it's just stored at your place, for Sunday night dread
Most of what's in your chest tonight was never yours to carry.
Monday arrived early, as it does, with a list. Some of it is yours. Most of it is other people's, wearing your name, and dread doesn't do the accounting.
Plan your week on Sunday.Sort it by whose it is.the mine pile is usually the smallest
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Step 1 of 3fast
Monday. Fast. Whatever's in your chest.
Up to eight. One per line. Don't tidy them.
Step 2 of 3
Sort each thing
Whose is this?
Nobody's: the ones that are pure dread with no task attached. There's usually one.
Step 3 of 3
The piles.
0mine
0theirs
0nobody's
Which one, if you did it first, would make the rest feel smaller?
That's Monday.
Monday, in full:
One thing. Do it first, before the inbox gets a vote. The rest of the mine pile will still be there and it will look different once this one is done.
The theirs pile
These have your name on them and someone else's fingerprints. Handing something back isn't refusing it. It's one sentence, on Monday, to the person it belongs to: "This is with you, I think. Tell me if I've got that wrong."
The nobody's pile
Dread with no task attached. It can't be done and it can't be handed back, so it gets the only thing left.
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