How to get out of bed – Mike Monteiro

Mike Monteiro’s newsletter might be the first newsletter I started paying for without having subscribed to it. I like his writing, I like his message and the way that he packages it up into things I can relate to without merely confirming my existing beliefs. Over the past few years I’ve read and appreciated his words enough that it was fair to pay. His weekly column “How to …” is a clever way of disguising his reflections on life behind the typical headline of an advice column. Spoiler alert: It’s not really an advice column … and in a way it is, but much broader. This week’s edition resonated so much: Over the last few years I’ve managed to carve out a “way of dealing with all the shit” that’s mostly worked. […] There’s a difference between sticking your head in the sand, and occasionally needing to stick it in a tub of ice water. These are things I do to stay sane. Riding my bike. Going to my art studio. Writing. Sitting in the park and chatting with my neighbors in the evening.…