Category — Microblog Mondays

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I read a very old post and I loved the idea, so I’m throwing it out here.  An accomplishment box.  It’s impossible to believe that you’re not getting stuff done when you’re faced with a clear jar filled with tiny slips of paper detailing what you’ve done.

The idea is that when you feel good — when you check something big off your list or get praise at work — you write it on a slip of paper and drop it in the jar.  It’s not just helpful when you’re working on your resume down the road; it’s there when you’re having a crap day and feeling like you’re not achieving anything.  You can look in the jar and have hard-and-fast proof that it’s your mood talking and not reality.

My most recent slips would be finishing an animation for work and donating the baby stuff.

What’s going on your slip?

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too.

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I had a 35 day streak going on Smiling Mind, and I missed one day because I kept putting off meditating.  I am beyond pissed with myself because I really liked the counter in the dashboard listing a nice, high number.  And now it says 10.

I decided that I had to meditate at a set point every day or this could possibly happen again.  No more wherever-I-can-squeeze-it-in.  So I’ve now made it my pre-work ritual.  On weekends, it’s my pre-first-activity-of-the-day ritual.  If we’re in a hurry, I do the shortest meditation, which is only a minute or so.

It all goes back to a piece of advice I read: If something will only take you two minutes, do it immediately.  If you put it off, you will spend more than two minutes remembering to do it and it will still take you two minutes to complete the task.  Meditation technically sometimes takes more than two minutes, but it could take two minutes.  So I just do it and get it over with.

And then my mind is calm because I’ve taken care of the task.  Win!

What is something you need to do that will only take you two minutes?  Go do it right now.

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I have been tearing through books lately, somewhat due to our weekend read-a-thon.  It also helped that the three books I read before the read-a-thon were on the shorter side.  I didn’t love them, but it raised my self-esteem to see my “read” list growing longer, so I stuck with them.  I sometimes make bad reading decisions like that just because I feel like crap when I feel as if my “read” list is short at the end of the year.

I don’t deal well with reading pressure; even self-imposed reading pressure.

I’d like to do a reading challenge, but I don’t think it would be motivating.  I just think it would feel like work.  Ditto for book clubs.  I like the idea of a book club and socializing around a book, but it turns out that I really hate reading books that other people have told me to read, even when I intended to read them in the first place.  Again, it feels like work, even though I love getting book recommendations (recommendations, yes, assignments, no).  I have to read so much for actual work that I want my down time to be fun reading.

Do you like reading challenges and book clubs?

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I didn’t hear about hygge until hygge was everywhere, so I am especially excited that I heard about ikigai before it jumped the shark.  What is ikigai, you ask?

It’s the newest addition to our trend of borrowing ideas from other cultures without paying an iota of attention to other elements of the culture that support and nurture the idea.  Fun!

Your ikigai is your “reason to jump out of bed each morning.”  Or “the intersection of what you are good at and what you love doing.”  You find your ikigai by doing four things: (1) making a list of everything you love doing, (2) making a list of everything you are good at doing, (3) making a list of profitable skills — things you know how to do that you can get paid to do, and (4) making a list of what the world needs.  Where do all of those lists overlap?

At first I thought my ikigai was going to be writing, but I think it’s actually somewhere between disseminating ideas and pollinating thoughts.

What is your ikigai?  And are you in the correct profession for your ikigai?

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I’ve purchased — but haven’t read yet — Dan Harris’s 10% Happier.  The idea appeals to me because 10% sounds totally do-able.  100% happier… that’s like Disney-level happy.  But 10%, that’s more like a-really-good-salad happy.  That’s finding-an-easy-parking-space happy.

Which is why I clicked on Elisha Goldstein’s article about putting 10% more kindness into the world.  100% more kindness… that’s the first step towards burnout or sainthood.  But 10% kinder, that’s more like smiling-at-someone-when-they’re-snarling-at-you kind.  That’s offering-to-take-something-off-someone’s-plate kind.  I like the idea of being 10% kinder to myself as well.

As Goldstein states: “Remember, the immediate outcome isn’t the point; it’s more about giving your brain practice in kindness.”

Tell me one kind thing you did this week.

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