Any fan of Hoda Kotb knows that the TODAY co-anchor starts every day the same way: by writing in her journal.
As she begins her last week at TODAY, the “Making Space” host opened up in an interview with TODAY.com about what she wrote down on the morning of her last Monday with the show.
“Today I wrote, ‘Take it slow,'” she explains. “I’m always wishing for, ‘Oh it’s hump day!’ It’s only Monday.”
Hoda realized it was time for a different kind of Monday entry in her journal.
“I decided that this is the first week that I want to go super slow,” she says. “I want to sit in Monday. I want to enjoy, like, what that incredible plaza was today. I want to look Savannah (Guthrie) in the eye. I want to play a song with Jenna (Bush Hager) where we’re both weeping in the makeup room. I want to enjoy each day. Monday — I’m going to finish Monday, and then I’m going to start Tuesday.”
A bit of that “incredible” magic included a visit for Hoda from women in the same sorority, Delta Delta Delta, she was in when she attended college at Virginia Tech.
Hoda, 60, also says she’s no longer going to “wish” her days away.
“When you have so many days, you’re like, ‘Oh God, it’s only January, it’s only Monday,'” she says, “but for me, it’s not that anymore. It’s like, I get this Monday. I’m going to get this Tuesday. I’m going to get this Wednesday, get this Thursday and get this Friday.”
“I’m going to take it slow,” she adds.
Hoda opened up in a previous TODAY.com interview about how writing in her “grateful journal” is one of the things she does to increase her happiness.
“I’ll write three things I’m grateful for,” she said, adding that doing so before diving into the day makes her feel like her “good stuff is on the front row.”
She also does the same thing at night before bed: “You have to make it part of your every-day.”
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