# ❄️ Shoveling counts too ❄️

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- Published: 2026-01-16T13:31:42-05:00
- Author: Stephie

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**Hello Reader 👋
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**Quick note before we start:**​
If you’re in a _high-energy, things-are-clicking, I’m on fire_ kind of week — honestly, this email is probably not for you.

Keep going. Don’t slow down for me!

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This one is for the rest of us.

This week, most of my time went to shoveling.
Definitely not my favorite winter 
sport.

Snow that keeps falling on and off for days.
Not dramatic storms — just enough that
if you skip a day, everything becomes harder the next.

You shovel so you can:

 * get outside easily and safely
 * receive mail and deliveries
 * keep life moving normally

It’s necessary.
It’s repetitive.And once it’s done… there’s nothing new to show 
for it.

That’s what this week felt like.

A lot of effort.
A lot of movement.But no real sense of progress.

(Also: my son would _not_ have minded skipping school and declaring this a snow-
day economy ❄️😆)

I know some weeks are meant for building.
Others are meant for maintenance.

And mid-January has a funny way of pretending it should be the first one — while
behaving like the second.

Add the New Moon into the mix, and whether you’re sensitive to that or not, it does
tend to lower energy, blur focus, and make everything feel a bit heavier to initiate.

So if this week felt like:

 * staying busy without moving forward
 * doing what’s required, not what’s exciting
 * spending energy just to keep snow (or other things) from piling up

**Welcome to the Maintenance Week Club,
where time asks more than it gives back!

I’ve learned not to push for big decisions when it feels like this. It usually backfires.
Or worse, it sends me down a rabbit hole that creates more work instead of clarity.

So I’m leaving this here.

If this week felt like doing everything you had to do just to stay in place, that
makes sense.

If you feel like replying and telling me what your version of “shoveling” looked
like, I’ll read it.
If not, no action required.

Some weeks are just about clearing the path so the next one isn’t harder than it
needs to be.

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Stéphanie
​(quietly obsessed with making the invisible visible ✨)​Creative Experience
Design Consultant

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**PS** — If you _are_ on fire right now: please ignore everything above and keep
going. We’ll talk another day 😉

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