Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels.

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill.

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

Oh, that's nice. Search zero with an axe because healthy business is beautiful business.

I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is a little happier.

I've been doing research for a book I want to write about the body and the senses and getting to the mind through the body.

As part of that work, I've been thinking a lot about time. How we experience time, how time changes things.

And now the terrible circumstances surrounding COVID-19 have made me think a lot about time in a new way.

And as part of this reflection, I find myself going back to reread and reread one of my favorite passages from a book I love.

Anlamats, bird by bird. Some instructions on writing and life. She writes.

But about a month before my friend Pammy died, she said something that may have permanently changed me.

We had gone shopping for a dress for me to wear that night to a nightclub with the man I was seeing at the time.

Pammy was in a wheelchair wearing her queen mum wig, the easy writer look in her eyes.

I tried on 11 or mini dress, which is not my usual style. I tend to wear big baggy clothes.

People used to tell me I dress like John Goodman.

Anyway, the dress fit perfectly and I came out to model it for her. I stood there feeling very shy and self-conscious and pleased.

Then I said, do you think it makes my hips look too big? And she said to me slowly, Annie, I really don't think you have that kind of time.

No, I don't think we have that kind of time either.

I'm Gretchen Rubin and I hope this makes your week a little happier.