THE WEEKLY PAGE 📝 No. 282
Routine as Resistance + what to read, watch, listen to and enjoy...
The part of my work I have long been the most passionate about is how our routines anchor us.
Not only in our daily routine, but in the inevitable ups and downs of life. A routine — even the simplest one — can be a the difference between riding the waves and promptly drowning.
The more unstable our world becomes, the more I can feel my routine becoming a lifeboat.
But not just something that keeps me afloat.
A vessel that moves me forward.
Even if it’s slow.
Even if it’s not always straight.
It’s forward.
This is the concept behind my planner design, The Daily Page.
And the basis of my digital organization framework, The PIES Method.
When life is unpredictable, being able to conserve energy and mental bandwidth by eliminating decisions and falling into a familiar routine helps ground us.
Simple habits like drinking some water, moving your body, taking a deep breath, and eating something green become vital. If you want a simple method for building routines that feel like a “lifeboat” try my framework, The HONEYS Method and select one habit from each area:
💦H - Hydration: try drinking 12 oz of water before you have coffee (more about this)
📝O - Organization: Try a note system like Google Keep (more about this)
🥗N - Nutrition: Try adding one serving of vegetables to every meal (more about this)
🚶🏽♀️E - Exercise: Do more of an activity you enjoy (more about this)
🧡Y - Your “Y”: Find your IKIGAI and do more of it (more about this)
😴S - Sleep: Focus on quality, not quantity (more about this)
Slow, steady progress is how we change the world — I firmly believe that.
P.S. I appreciate your patience with my writing right now. I have had a busy start to 2026 with client projects (but I have availability starting in March — schedule a free 20-minute call to chat!). Much of my extra time is currently dedicated to advocacy for Minnesota both online and off. I’m committed to writing the promised amount of “annual” content (a weekly newsletter, a monthly newsletter, and 2 other tutorials/articles per month), the tutorials/articles might just come out at a different pace than my normal schedule but you will get at least 24 this year!
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Have a gentle weekend,
📚 READ: A book I’d recommend reading right now is “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-first Century” by Grace Lee Boggs. Notably, Grace was an activist based in Detroit, Michigan, who played a key roll in developing and establishing the community-based organizing that we recently saw spring into action in Minnesota. I read this book years ago, and have found myself coming back to it over and over again the past two months. Learn more about the book + get a copy.
On a related note about “reading”! Some of you might remember be complaining about this exact thing a while back, so I was pretty elated when Spotify announced this week that they’ve just launched a new feature called “Page Match”. For those of us who like to switch between audio and physical versions of a book this is a game-changer! You snap a photo of the page you’re on, and it will jump to that spot in the audio book version. Worth noting that the feature does not use AI, but rather a form of text-matching technology. Learn more about it here.
(and FWIW I did not actively leave/boycott Spotify because Spotify is a Swedish company and there’s currently an effort here to boycott American companies. They also announced in January that they are no longer running ads for ICE recruitment, which was the purpose of the initial boycott.)
📺 WATCH: My favorite guilty pleasure, Love is Blind, has returned for it’s 10th season and has accidentally become our favorite way to spend Valentine’s Day weekend (I promise romance is not dead, though, we made a dinner reservation, too). A little bit of escapism is required to get through these times and so far this season is gooood. Watch the trailer here:
🎧 LISTEN: Chicago-based organizer Kelly Hayes recently interviewed three Minnesotans on her podcast, Movement Memos. I still need to finish this episode but it’s a great conversation about how to build on what Chicago and Minneapolis have started. Listen here or wherever you get podcasts:
🧡 ENJOY: I know I’ve shared this recipe before but I’m sharing it again in the name of routine (see intro!) because easy-but-nourishing recipes are key right now. We probably make these Juicy Oven Kebabs once a week. I pair the meat with these super simple homemade naan (basically just Greek yogurt + flour!). Easy, fast, and delicious. Get the kebab recipe, get the naan recipe.
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Wait wait wait you just threw out a casual “homemade naan” recipe alongside the kebabs!?! Now I have to try this whole meal!! 🤩
I watch Love is Blind France to help me learn French 😆 It's actually perfect!! In the early episodes, it's people introducing themselves to each other, getting to know one another... simple language, conversational, questions and answers, just two people talking. Helpful for learning more colloquial phrases and hearing how people actually speak! (Anyway, just sharing if anyone needs a way to intellectualize this highly entertaining guilty pleasure.)