🫠 From Melted to Motivated: The Reset That Worked!

✔ This Week’s Agenda

🔄 Productivity Tip: The Reset Day Rule
Forget Mondays. Here’s how to declare a random Wednesday your new beginning (and actually mean it).

🧠 Tool We Actually Use: Vimcal EA
From calendar chaos to control freak dreams—real EA testimonials + our favorite feature right now.

🖤 Join Our Exclusive Community: The Inner Office
Our private brain trust opens next week. High trust. High signal. Low tolerance for lurking.

📅 Workback Plan: All-Hands Meeting Edition
The timeline you didn’t know you needed—but will never plan without again.

🎵 Song of the Week: For that post-reset, main character energy.

😆🎬 Video of the Week: Need I say more?

Hi Friends,

This week’s issue is coming to you a little later than usual. There’s been… a lot. Some personal things came up, and this girl needed a minute (or two) to recenter, hydrate, and rejoin society.

Also? The AC broke. During a heatwave. I spent two full days inside a 97-degree house trying not to melt into my office chair. The AC is finally fixed, and yes—we’re okay now. Just slightly crispier.

Thanks for the grace. Let’s get into it.

With love, and working AC,

Chrissy

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Not everything needs a fresh start on a Monday. Sometimes the week throws you off track (like… say, your AC breaks in a heatwave and your house turns into a 97° sauna). When that happens, don’t spiral, reset!

Pick any day—Tuesday, Thursday, even Friday—and treat it like your personal new beginning. Here's how to do it:

🕑 Block 2 hours on your calendar and label it “Reset Time”

🧹 Clear the decks:
• Archive emails you don’t need to respond to
• Mute/ Archive Slack channels you haven’t looked at in 3 weeks
• Cancel or reschedule non-essential meetings (permission granted)

📝 Write down 3 priorities that would make you feel accomplished by the end of the week (even if it’s just “get inbox under 500”)

🔀 Reorder your to-do list based on what’s realistic, not what’s aspirational. (Save world domination for next week.)

🕯️ Bonus points:
Clean your workspace (trust me, it makes a difference), light a candle, play a soundtrack that makes you feel like you’re starring in a productivity montage. Reset energy = restored clarity.

Because sometimes, the most productive thing you can do… is pause, regroup, and decide again.

We’ve spent all of June talking about what actually moves the needle on productivity, and Vimcal EA kept coming up. For our final highlight, we’ll let other EAs speak for themselves.

If scheduling ever made you fantasize about throwing your laptop out the window… Vimcal EA might help you keep it.

Get your 14-day free trial here! — built for the people behind the people.

We’re officially launching The Inner Office next week! A private, invite-only community for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, and strategic operators who believe that the best way to grow… is together.

This isn’t another Slack group full of passive threads and surface-level chatter. It’s a curated brain trust for the sharpest minds behind the scenes, where collaboration isn’t optional, it’s the culture.

Inside, you’ll find:

If you’ve already applied: keep an eye on your inbox next week, we’ll be in touch with next steps.

If you haven’t yet: apply here to be considered.

This space is intentionally and high-trust, built for those who lead from behind the curtain and want a seat at the real table.

All-hands meetings don’t just magically come together. Behind every clean agenda and smooth screen share is a very tired assistant with a calendar and a never-ending to-do list.

If you're the one making it all happen, a workback plan is your best friend.

It’s a reverse timeline: you start at the end (meeting date), then plan backward so you hit every prep milestone with room to breathe (read: fix things, chase people, and avoid a 1am deck panic).

Because sometimes the only energy you need is: “I can buy myself flowers.”
Put it on during your Reset Block, your post-meeting strut, or while mentally firing that calendar invite that should’ve been an email.

It’s self-sufficient. It’s petty in the best way! 🙃