Did you know that November 1st is \u201cGive Up Your Shoulds Day\u201d?\u00a0 Me neither!\u00a0 I actually just found out about it myself, but I\u2019m thinking, \u201cHow did I not know about this day sooner?!\u201d \u00a0Here\u2019s what I learned:<\/p>\n
According to checkiday.com, \u201cGive Up Your Shoulds Day is a day to give up thinking about something you “should” do. So often we spend so much time thinking about the things we “should” do\u2014things such as exercising, eating healthier, making more money, being more organized\u2014that we become overly stressed, and feel guilty and sad. We will feel better if we give up thinking about at least one thing we “should” do. Maybe if we do this today, we can do it on future days as well. The key is to get rid of the thought. For example, if we think we “should” go to the gym, maybe we still will go\u2014or maybe we won’t\u2014but the key is to get rid of the thought that is burdening us. No matter if you do something or not, getting rid of the thought in our mind that we should do it will ease our minds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s be honest, you gotta wonder if the person who created this holiday did so after eating a ton of Halloween candy the night before and thinking, \u201cI really should go on a diet and I really should go workout\u2026oooorrrrrr\u2026.I could declare today a holiday and call it Give Up Your Shoulds Day\u2026yeah!\u2026I\u2019ll go with that!\u201d<\/p>\n
Whatever led to the creation of Give Up Your Shoulds Day, I kind of like the idea of letting go of a stress for a day. You know what else I like the idea of?\u00a0 Having the clocks fall back an hour on Sunday morning so we get a whole extra hour of sleep!\u00a0 Yay for more sleep!\u00a0 I don\u2019t love the idea of having it get dark so early in the evening now, but I’ve been fighting with a sinus cold for weeks now and I could really use that extra hour of sleep so I am going to embrace it and enjoy!<\/p>\n
Between Give Up Your Shoulds Day and the end of Daylight Savings Time this weekend we are clearly meant to have ourselves a stress free, well-rested weekend.\u00a0 So remember to set your clocks back Saturday night when you go to bed and ENJOY!<\/p>\n
~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you know that November 1st is \u201cGive Up Your Shoulds Day\u201d?\u00a0 Me neither!\u00a0 I actually just found out about it myself, but I\u2019m thinking, \u201cHow did I not know about this day sooner?!\u201d \u00a0Here\u2019s what I learned: According to checkiday.com, \u201cGive Up Your Shoulds Day is a day to give up thinking about something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13924,395,19618,501,46,251,19628,19621,1951,19627,19619,19626,19625,19624,19622,112,275,13224,250,19623,19620],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-achieving-balance","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-an-extra-hour-of-sleep","tag-appreciate","tag-attitude","tag-balance","tag-ease-your-mind","tag-end-of-daylight-savings-time","tag-exercise","tag-extra-time","tag-get-more-sleep","tag-give-up-your-shoulds-day","tag-let-go-of-what-you-should-do","tag-let-go-of-your-burdens","tag-overstressed","tag-self-improvement","tag-stress","tag-take-a-deep-breath","tag-work","tag-worry-free","tag-yay-for-more-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10226,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}