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Jennie Klein's avatar

I cackled at Dream Matte Mousse. That one lived deep in the archives of my brain.

My therapist calls my endless want to optimize as "should-ing myself" which is a little lol and helps me gut check when my brain tells me "I should wake up at 5am and workout for 45 minutes then shower and do my hair before getting my kid out the door and being at my desk for an 8am meeting." Like should I really? Who is this for? Do I want to do all that or is it, like you said, the shame in not doing the most at all times the real problem.

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Jessie Connolly's avatar

I feel like so much of this attitude bleeds over from corporate world "maximizing profits" attitude. If you spend 8+ hours a day during the week being told to optimize (whatever that means for your specific job) it is SO HARD to turn that off when you get home/offline. And then we spend all this time and money trying to figure out how to stop burnout. I'm all for making life easier by thinking through the path of least resistance in your routine (recently moved my nespresso machine into my bathroom and woah game changer) but maybe every minute doesn't need to be "the most productive" in every facet of life?

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