Hey there, Reader!

Surprised to see me on a Monday? I'll bet! It's by design. Let me explain.

I want you to treat your life as the most important thing you do -- the same way you treat your kids, your family, your career. You wouldn't shoe-horn time in for them over the weekend; right? You also wouldn't relegate them to Sunday morning, in between everything else.

Which is why the BEST LIFE List is no longer dropping on Sundays.

A little backstory: when I started the Sunday newsletter, dropping it on Sundays made sense. It was 2020, the world was shut down, and we were all craving connection in whatever form we could get it. It started with TV and book recommendations. Recipes to help you get out of the "chicken for dinner again tonight?" rut.

And for a long while, that was exactly right.

But the world has moved on. So has this business. And so have I.

Six years ago, I was still figuring out what I wanted in life. I was working full-time in commercial real estate brokerage, and spending my evenings and weekends building this business. I thought that success meant working as hard as I could on everything in my life: two careers, training for endurance events...joking that I would sleep when I was dead.

If you asked me what I wanted my best life to look like, I wouldn't have been able to tell you.

Suffice it to say that I've learned a lot over the past six years. I have more clarity now than I've ever had. I know what I want, and I know what matters most to me right now. I understand the value of clarity, discernment, and giving myself permission to want what I want, to name it, and to go after it. Unapologetically.

In fact, in 50 days, I'm leaving for France for almost two months. I'm attending a 4-week language immersion school, and hosting a retreat in Paris. (Join me...there's more on that below!)

2020 Laurie would not have believed that any of this was possible.

But 2020 Laurie was not committed to building a life around what she loved. She was busy...chasing the next promotion, the next milestone, the next achievement. She was still in the proving-herself stage of life.

What I've learned about myself over the last several years is rooted in everything I teach and model at the School of Midlife. And if the School of Midlife does one thing for you, I want it to be this: proof of what's possible for you and your life, too.

That's why this newsletter is no longer landing on Sundays.

For me, it started with asking myself different questions, taking steps in a direction I thought I wanted to go, and then giving myself permission to pivot when it turned out I wanted something different than what I found -- which is not something I let myself do for decades.

It's been years of writing the Morning 5-10-5 in the Best Life Planner.

It took time to decide I was done tolerating what I "should" do or "should" want.

This journey is about living a life that's true to me.

Going forward, I want you to treat your life the same way.

Which means this newsletter moves to Monday mornings. Why? We're putting your life front and center at the start of the week, not tucked into the leftover hours of the weekend.

As you're planning your week, you need to plan your life that week, too.

Obviously, work can help fund the life you want...but it isn't the part of your life you should be most focused on. In other words, work shouldn't get the best of you. Your life outside of your career deserves more than that.

And here's something else I'm excited to share with you! Beginning in September, we're going back to a weekly cadence. YAY!

But going forward, the BEST LIFE List will be a different newsletter than the one you may be accustomed to. Less shopping, fewer recipes. There are plenty of other newsletters that are focused on curated content like that. Like Babble, for instance, which we talked about on this week's episode of the School of Midlife podcast.

The BEST LIFE List is going to focus on the tools, strategies and frameworks that actually move you toward your best life. This is where you'll find less "what to buy," and more "who do you need to become to live the life you've always wanted?"

And I, for one, can't wait to see where this takes us. 💛

xx, Laurie

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