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Why weekly planning often leads to shame spirals

Every Sunday night I make elaborate plans for the week and by Tuesday everything has fallen apart and I feel like a failure at the most basic human skill of existing in time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Rigid temporal expectations create artificial measures of self-worth that ignore life's inherent unpredictability.

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