Good morning from my parents' living room coffee table where I'm writing this email with a different floor setup.

The last two days' of sitting cross legged on the floor have left my ankles, feet and peroneus (muscle on the side of my lower leg) cramped up that I'm having to M.U.S.C.L.E** (my special strategy for taking care of muscle aches) through all of them every night while binge watching Lost.

So today I've set up more cushions around my floor cushion to relieve some of that pain—I'll circle back with how this turns out.

Anyway, I was doing some digital housekeeping on my laptop yesterday and I decided to finally remove a long-recurring task from my list:

MY WEEKLY REVIEWS

**Gasp** 😨

Aren't weekly reviews supposed to be a huge part my reflection and a pillar for good mental health?

Don't I swear to stand by doing these no matter how my week was?

Well, yes, and no...

See, weekly reviews were definitely a big part of my life. I've been doing them consistently for more than a year on Notion.

But the thing I noticed about a weekly review is that I would end up zooming out too far from what I preferred.

There have been tough moments during the year where I was struggling to get through just each day, and a weekly review didn't begin to capture that as much as I would like.

Thankfully, I'm not in a rough situation now but reflecting daily became more impactful for me and allowed me to live my life more in the present moment instead of comparing how my week was vs the week before.

I guess the weekly reviews were giving me a false impression that I would one day achieve a 'perfect' week—another goal to aim for in my already long list of goals.

But it didn't fully capture the fact that a week is made up of 7 individual days, most of them very different from each other.

I suppose the lesson (if any, and this is me writing this to myself) is that there is really no 'ideal' or 'perfect' week (or day), no matter how reflective or planned out you are.

Life is a series of days and we're here for the ride.

Instead of worrying about forcefully trying to create perfect days, a much better use of time would be to enjoy each day as much as you can given that each day is a gift after all.

Just some thoughts for today as we all try to shake off the Monday blues. 😊

Nicholas Ng

**If you missed my email on my M.U.S.C.L.E strategy for anything that hurts, you can read it here.