First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

What Would You Like to Shed in 2018?

My first thing to shed – the daily, existential, political anxiety.

How about you?

Illustration by Jean Jullien

Post-Holiday Hangover

My friend Bob calls the first business day after New Years the “mother of all Mondays.” And even if in 2018, that’s actually a Tuesday, I completely agree. Despite my ambitious work-related plans for this past week, I ended up spending lots of time watching movies. (It’s the season in L.A. when, if you’re lucky, you know someone in the film industry who has “screeners” – DVD copies of all the latest movies up for Academy and Guild Awards, and you get to borrow them.) Today, on the mother of all Tuesdays, I’ve had trouble focusing. I’m trying to remind myself of what I tell clients to kickstart their motivation – get up, take one step at a time and go for the small win.

Cartoon from The New Yorker