Sleep in. You read that right. Wake up when your body is ready to wake up instead of only after hitting the snooze button on your obnoxious alarm seven times. (By the way, there are other sounds you could choose besides “hateful buzzer.”)
Grab a cup of comfort-coffee (the kind of you grew up on), and cuddle up with your computer, a sleepy puppy, and a days’ worth of work. Get up to refresh your coffee and come back to this:
Wake up, and remember an email you sent seven years ago. An email you sent to all of your family and friends of the time. Remember it being hilarious! And witty. And all kinds of smart.
Good thing you saved it.
Upon reading the seven-years-ago email, however, you remember significant disappointment. You’ve remembered this email incorrectly.
It’s not hilarious. It’s painfully honest about things you shouldn’t have said aloud much less committed to writing for all your family and friends to read. Luckily, they still think it’s hilarious (but not in the way you wanted it to be).
Write a new letter, because you’re better at it now. (Or at least, you hope.)
Remember the art of editing, and try to save the personal information for your blog and essays (because that seems more appropriate somehow).
Make a list of all the people that matter to you. Get email addresses for as many as you can. Click send.
And then find a typo.
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