Thought Shrapnel

Matt Muir links to My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani, which she adapted from Buster Benson. He got the idea from Tim Urban. You can create your own version at weeksofyour.life.

I like the idea of representing one’s life like this, for several reasons. First, as Urban’s initial post points out:

Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got.

Personally, 2025 has been terrible for me so far. But we’re only a few weeks in! The rest of it could be great, who knows?

The boxes can also be a reminder that life is forgiving. No matter what happens each week, you get a new fresh box to work with the next week. It makes me want to skip the New Year’s Resolutions—they never work anyway—and focus on making New Week’s Resolutions every Sunday night. Each blank box is an opportunity to crush the week—a good thing to remember.

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Image: Screenshot from Gina Trapani’s site