A Quick Guide on How to Make Your Life Harder
The Wednesday Woof (even if this came out Thursday morning)
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The Wednesday Woof
In the first edition of the Wednesday Woof, I’d like to share the original version of last Sunday’s Woof of the Week - Self-Sabotage. I ended up going in a different direction with the newsletter because I wanted to dissect my thoughts about a particularly difficult moment I was going through in more depth. Of course, I didn’t arrive on any answers, and in hindsight I probably would have been able to parse through my feelings more had I started writing a little earlier, BUT this is all a journey!
So here is the original version of last week’s Woof of the Week! I laid out the structure for this late last week - but spent the last three days filling out each step until it was ready to send!
How to Self-Sabotage in 10 Steps (EASY)
In my lengthy 28 and a half years of life, I’ve learned how to do things well, but more importantly I’ve learned how to do things poorly. This is borne out of a necessity to keep my life in check - because if there’s anything I’ve learned it’s that nothing gold can stay! So why not get ahead of that and make the gold go away yourself?
If you too feel this way, but don’t know how to remedy this, here’s a quick and easy guide to self-sabotaging yourself!
(1) Eat too much
Whether you’re ordering food, or cooking, get a little extra. In fact, don’t be afraid to give yourself a LOT extra. GET that milkshake with your double double animal style and animal style fries! EAT that extra chicken breast that you planned to save for lunch during the week! There is incredible short term benefit to this - after all, eating good food can never be a bad thing emotionally. But it can be a bad thing physically, as eating just a little too much will certainly have you feeling bad for the foreseeable few hours, and then make you question all of your eating habits the next week.
(2) Go to sleep late
If you’re already feeling tired, push yourself to stay up just a little bit later. Perhaps think about (but don’t watch) that TV show people have been telling you about. Or maybe click on (but don’t finish) that YouTube video the algorithm keeps pushing onto your home screen. Stay awake just long enough that you push through your initial period of sleepiness and now you’re awake again! Repeat this cycle until you finally accept that you’re practicing revenge bedtime procrastination.