1081st Friday Blog Roundup

I woke up Thursday morning feeling terrible. We went to the theater the night before and didn’t get home until late. I didn’t sleep well, and I woke up with a headache. Normally, I would tell myself to get out of bed when my alarm goes off and do yoga, no excuses. But I couldn’t do it.

I reset my alarm for 8 — the first time in years — and then took a pretty lazy morning until my first meeting at noon. It felt so wrong, but I ended up doing better work in that shorter amount of time.

I can’t always take the morning off, but I felt oddly proud of myself for taking care of myself. I feel like I need to leave a post-it note for myself somewhere to remind myself that things will ultimately be better if I give myself the morning sometimes.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

And now the blogs…

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But first, second, helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. To read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “My 11th Survivor Anniversary” (Infertile Phoenix)

Okay, now my choices this week.

Finding a Different Path went glamping, and it gave her space to breathe. She writes, “There is something about going somewhere else, about disrupting your regular routines, that presses a reset button.” Yes. It doesn’t need to be far; it just needs to be somewhere you don’t normally go. I especially loved this post for the “Instagram-view” and the actual view photos — a good reminder about careful angling.

Lastly, Swistle has been struggling with a terrible work situation and finally came to the decision to leave it. It was one of those moments where she kept wondering if she would go through with it, walked right up to the edge, and then did the act and felt perfect peace. There have been posts since about the aftermath, but I loved this one because it’s really about taking care of yourself.

The roundup to the Roundup: Give yourself the morning. Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between April 3 – 10) and not the blog’s main URL. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week. Read the original open thread post here.