Hi, this is Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a growth spurt, a bite-sized way you can make progress today.

I recently got an email from a progressor who had just finished the Do Something List training,

and I always invite questions after you can

email me your questions and I'll answer you. And this progressor named Brooke sent in a question

that is so important I knew I had to answer on the show in order to give it the justice it deserves

and also to help all of you who similarly take part in the DSL training or maybe hear about me sharing

about the hobbies I'm working on or my insistence that we take time for ourselves and just wonder

how. Let me read this email and it's shared with her permission. Hi, Monica. I enjoyed listening to

the replay of the DSL workshop. Thank you for sharing. A question I had was how do you logistically plan

to make some of these? I don't want to say goals, plans, interests, outings, ideas actually happen

in your day-to-day life. I want to make sure that I am not putting a bunch more items on my never-ending

to-do list. But I do think that even fun things have to be planned for or they usually don't happen.

I was just curious what your advice would be or how you have planned to incorporate your

DSL in your life.

Do you choose something from the list to do every month or week?

How does it work for you?

Thanks so much for all you do, Brooke.

So I'm going to answer this question.

And while this was specifically asked about the DSL, I think it transcends that in terms of anything that you need to do to take time for yourself and your interests, whether it's a hobby or self-care habit or doing something from the DSL.

So I could admittedly write a whole book on this. And in fact, I basically did in terms of

habits. But I want to answer this in the most nutshell way, but still in a way that I think is going to

give you impact right here right now without having to read an entire book. So the way I typically

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