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How 100 Post-it Notes Can Help You Feel in Control of Your Life Again
If your brain often feels like scrambled eggs these days, then know you’re not alone. Also know that the cure might be something as simple as spending an afternoon surrounded by 100 Post-it Notes.
Blame it on the pandemic (and the headlines)
“Like a lot of people, I have found myself overscheduled this summer. I’m still doing less than summers of the pre-pandemic past, which often felt like one wedding sliding straight into another without end, but it still feels like too much,” confessed writer Anne Helen Peterson in a Substack newsletter bluntly titled “You’re Still Exhausted” last summer.
“I’ve let things go (we are essentially eating mixed vegetable grill every night, it’s great); I’ve canceled plans and been transparent about why. I’m trying to work less, or at least segment work more effectively. But I’m still tired,” she continues. And while she’s always been an introvert, this sense that life can so easily swamp her feels new.
“I think the real problem is that life is still exhausting because the pandemic was and remains exhausting in so many invisible ways — and we still haven’t given ourselves space to even begin to recover. Instead, we’re just softly boiling over, emptying and evaporating whatever stores of…
