Sunday Edition: The Soft Reset (So Monday You Feels Brave)

Julie Bolejack

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Sunday Edition: The Soft Reset (So Monday You Feels Brave)
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Final day of our serenity sampler. Today is about gentle reset, not reinvention. We’re lining up small dominoes so Monday falls in your favor. Political heat returns tomorrow—scorcher forecasted—so let’s stock the emotional fridge.

The 3-2-1 Reset

  • 3 things you can definitely do this week (tiny is fine: refill meds, schedule a walk, answer one lingering email).
  • 2 things you will happily postpone (permission slips signed by me).
  • 1 thing you’ll do purely for joy (read on the porch, call a friend, try a new tea).Write them somewhere bossy—fridge, mirror, phone lock screen.

Ten Minutes to a Calmer Home Base

  • One Surface Shine: Clear and wipe a single hotspot.
  • Laundry Lottery: Fold exactly ten items, no more, no less.
  • The Basket Trick: Walk a basket around. Anything you don’t know where to put goes in. Sort later. Ta-da: visual peace.

Body, Kindly

Choose one:

  • Seven-minute stretch: neck, shoulders, hips, calves. Slow is the skill.
  • Two-song stroll: around the block, posture tall, jaw unclenched.
  • Breathe 4-4-6: inhale 4, hold 4, exhale 6. Repeat five times. If your exhale sighs, you’re doing it right.

The “Good Enough” Meal Plan

Pick two simple mains (soup + sheet-pan) and one breakfast you’ll actually eat (yogurt parfait jars, hard-boiled eggs, or peanut-butter toast with banana). Buy the missing pieces. That’s not meal prep—that’s future calm disguised as groceries.

Conversation Starter Jar

Cut up paper. Write five prompts:

  • Best smell from childhood?
  • What would you teach in a five-minute class?
  • The song that fixes a bad day?
  • A food you loved, then betrayed you?
  • A place you’ve never been but miss anyway?Put the slips in a jar. Congratulations, you just rescued dinner from small talk weather reports.

The Gentle Audit

Ask: “What did this weekend teach me about what I actually need?” Keep the answer simple. More quiet? More laughing? Less scrolling? One small tweak for next weekend—just one.


Final Note

Thank you for taking this weekend detour with me. You rested your outrage muscles so they’ll be ready tomorrow. Monday, we return to our usual sharp-tongued, fact-checked, justice-flavored commentary. Hydrate. Sleep. Stretch your jaw; it’s about to do some heroic clenching.

See you in the inbox at dawn’s crackle.

Julie Bolejack, MBA

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