We really shouldn’t be so busy all the time. A lot of the creative pursuits need some downtime for ideas to ruminate. The forty hour work week was conceived with someone else doing all the chores. We’ve been sleep walking into being rung out by ever increasing hours and reduced pay.
I actually believe we need more than the old labor unions. We need the workers to own the businesses they work in so they can set the hours and the benefits and get the profits from their work. There should be worker trusts that invest to get controlling interest in the companies they work at.
Definitely read him! He cut his teeth in the Ohio Rust Belt during the attempted worker-takeover of the Youngstown steel mill after its owners outsourced it and killed 4000 jobs. He's started a progressive think tank to encourage the development of things like coops, worker-owned companies, growing community wealth, and pushing more sustainable business charters, here's the website: https://www.democracycollaborative.org/
Every single part of your "get cozy, no pants" plan sounded appealing to me.
Amazingly well written and really helped me reframe how to "handle" stress. Why is it that movement takes energy, but also it always helps and is worth it 🥲
Yeah, this reframing really helped me with exercise. Thinking of it not as some intangible weight loss thing but as "letting go of the stress of inauguration week" was really helpful. We're always telling our kids to "listen to their bodies," and it's forced me to do the same, and I always feel SO MUCH BETTER after some exercise that I've had to grudgingly admit it's worth it. I am also not above bribing myself to exercise by buying myself a giant mocha iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts after. And since the exercise is for stress release instead of weight loss this is TOTALLY ALLOWED.
We really shouldn’t be so busy all the time. A lot of the creative pursuits need some downtime for ideas to ruminate. The forty hour work week was conceived with someone else doing all the chores. We’ve been sleep walking into being rung out by ever increasing hours and reduced pay.
100% agree. This is why we need to bring back labor unions.
I actually believe we need more than the old labor unions. We need the workers to own the businesses they work in so they can set the hours and the benefits and get the profits from their work. There should be worker trusts that invest to get controlling interest in the companies they work at.
Have you read any Gar Alperovitz? He's got two books, "America Beyond Capitalism" and "What Then Must We Do?" that go super deep into that.
I haven’t. I’ll check him out. I’ve just been working on my own ideas on it right now. I know a lot of people have been thinking about this.
Definitely read him! He cut his teeth in the Ohio Rust Belt during the attempted worker-takeover of the Youngstown steel mill after its owners outsourced it and killed 4000 jobs. He's started a progressive think tank to encourage the development of things like coops, worker-owned companies, growing community wealth, and pushing more sustainable business charters, here's the website: https://www.democracycollaborative.org/
Every single part of your "get cozy, no pants" plan sounded appealing to me.
Amazingly well written and really helped me reframe how to "handle" stress. Why is it that movement takes energy, but also it always helps and is worth it 🥲
Yeah, this reframing really helped me with exercise. Thinking of it not as some intangible weight loss thing but as "letting go of the stress of inauguration week" was really helpful. We're always telling our kids to "listen to their bodies," and it's forced me to do the same, and I always feel SO MUCH BETTER after some exercise that I've had to grudgingly admit it's worth it. I am also not above bribing myself to exercise by buying myself a giant mocha iced coffee from Dunkin' Donuts after. And since the exercise is for stress release instead of weight loss this is TOTALLY ALLOWED.