Pick a Day to Finally Change

Because it's about time you start

May 09, 2022

Hello! Greetings from Chicago. It's been so cold and rainy here. When I walk around and feel my hair swirling around my ears, I whisper out loud, with a hint of dazzle and a hint of despair:

Guess this is why they call you the windy city.

I'm really happy to be here and I really do love Chicago pizza. Since I'm here for days and days, I made a promise to myself that I'd get into a healthy routine. I knew the only way to start it was to wake up, the first day, and live the life I wanted to live here. I got myself to the gym (in the freezing rain), planned healthy meals, and found a walking path to get steps in.

If we want to change, we just have to start. Pick a day one, wake up, and make it happen.

In this issue: Why it's important to stand up for yourself, what happened when a friend life coached me, and a really good new song I'm obsessed with.

Why you’re getting this: I'm Jen Glantz and this is my Monday Pick-Me-Up newsletter. I've been sending it for over 8-years, every single Monday morning, to thousands of awesome humans, just like you. Thank you for letting this email live in in your inbox. It makes my heart explode with joy.

The Pick-Me-Up: Stand-Up for Yourself

Since I started writing for an audience in 2004 and since I started my business in 2014, people loved to say to me:

Jen! You need to be tougher
Get thicker skin
Let those comments roll off of you like confetti
There's no crying in business

But what nobody ever told me was this:

Being human isn't about learning how to put up with people's unwarranted nasty words to you or putting your feeling aside...

It's about learning when and how to stand up for yourself. It's about knowing how to end a business relationship when you've been taken advantage of. It's about learning how to say no when you've been disrespected. It's about learning how to give out refunds. It's about turning to a person and saying:

Just because the last person let you treat them this way, this person is not going to let that happen.

So all my thin skin, overly emotional, and sometimes incredibly hysterical humans, hello, I see you.

Don't change, don't mute yourself, don't let anyone tell you to hide how you feel when you know deeply rooted in your gut that you're inside a situation that is not right.

Please just stop following other people's shitty advice when you know who you are and more importantly:

How you are.

All my love,

Jen Glantz

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Monday Pick-Me-Ups:

Playing On Repeat

I really like this song a lot. I've played it on repeat too much already today. It has a nice beat to it that makes me want to dance - so you know what! I'm going to dance! Will you?

Tough Situations

This week, on the You're Not Getting Any Younger podcast, a friend is on the show sharing how she coached me through a really tough time in my life when I had to see an ex-best friend after many years of us not talking. Press play on this episode here.

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