Tonight I was making dinner and wondering if this little experiment was sustainable after this month is over. I was thinking about all the "have tos" I need to do every day: have to get up, have to go to work, have to provide dinner, etc., and how little time that left for the "want tos." I'm certainly not the first person to contemplate this.
But then I thought about the shades of have tos and want tos. I have to go to work, I want to work at my company in the job I hold. I have to make dinner, I want to make a healthy meal and supplement its construction with a small glass of red wine and NPR. I have to exercise, I want to do something that makes me feel good.
I know this has been covered by Mary Poppins (what, with her "spoonful of sugar" and all), but I think the key to sustainability is to find those overlaps between have tos and want tos.
Not an original thought, I know. But it is for me.
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