003E Today’s Box

WRITE NOW! Workshop Podcast: Write a Book, Change the World with Kitty Bucholtz · Dec 24, 2017 · 8m

In this first Encouraging Words episode, I encourage you not to let yourself get overwhelmed by kids and parents and finances and (un)employment and health and everything else in your life. I can't write when I'm stressed out and scared, but I'm a total planner. So how do I keep a balance?

At some point in the last few stressful years, my husband said, "Let's just try to stay in today's box." His point was for us to work on and plan for what we could plan for and work on today, but we had to let tomorrow's problems and potential disasters wait for us tomorrow.

It turns out it was an idea that…