"Find a way to add phone-free walking to your daily schedule. Make it non-negotiable. Make it easy. Skip a bus ride from your house to the station. Get off a station earlier on the way to work. Use 30 minutes of your lunch break to walk to a far-off cafe. The important thing is to … Continue reading Add Phone-Free Walking to Your Day
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Benefit from Other People’s Therapy
https://twitter.com/CarolineMoss/status/1198748131556499456?s=20 Some of my favorites from this thread: https://twitter.com/gskraz/status/1199160902618091520?s=20 https://twitter.com/kjones912/status/1198843290981982208?s=20 https://twitter.com/CatherineLynneW/status/1199002097074819074?s=20 https://twitter.com/ThinkngThoughts/status/1199008457573183490?s=20 https://twitter.com/Act3PlotTwist/status/1199142099939217411?s=20
Pace Yourself
Open Question: What does it mean to "pace yourself" in modern culture? Does it mean staying with something long enough, over time, to truly develop a relationship with the material and love it? "There’s a willingness, there’s a faith, there’s a very, very magical alchemy that happens when somebody looks at something with enormous love … Continue reading Pace Yourself
The Fruit of the Moment
We are all here for our own reasons. Those reasons aren't important. What is important is that we came and that our time together is short. Wring magic from these transient moments, while you can. Fear being stuck more than falling, and falling more than the crocodile by the shore or the tiger in the … Continue reading The Fruit of the Moment
Roam
A note-taking tool for networked thought.As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database. Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.-Roam I wanted to bookmark this for the future. I currently use org-mode in emacs for journaling and NextCloud Notes for a Keep replacement. But, this looks interesting.
Don’t Mistake Theater for Your Reality
I, too, have been called names. I have found myself sharing the living and thinking space of people with Cluster B personality disorders. I have seen them conjure worlds, hammer manacles, and frame possible views with their words and beliefs. And while their tutelage was hard, I learned a great lesson, which I will share: … Continue reading Don’t Mistake Theater for Your Reality
Not Everyone Makes It
…Only Human After All
"We do tend to focus on the wrong things too much of the time and make a big deal out of things that are ultimately kind of inconsequential. Success is being able to not do that. So much of being happy in life—both as a person and as an artist—is just being able to put … Continue reading …Only Human After All
Real Life is a Game
"In this game of life there are two ways of living. The shadow life and the hero’s journey. In prison, or in freedom. As a slave, or as warrior. What makes the difference? Your mind. The strongest of all weapons.-/u/GameStartCancel, "Real life is a game." reddit.com/r/selfimprovement. November 1, 2019. While there are worse metaphors than … Continue reading Real Life is a Game
…forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again.
"In any bond of depth and significance, forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again. The richest relationships are lifeboats, but they are also submarines that descend to the darkest and most disquieting places, to the unfathomed trenches of the soul where our deepest shames and foibles and vulnerabilities live, where we are less than we … Continue reading …forgive, forgive, forgive. And then forgive again.
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