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How I spent my winter vacation
Dec. 24th, 2015 11:00 pm...actually, how I am spending. It's not over.
For starters, I'm working a little every day. Nothing crazy, I swear, but spending an hour or two keeps things from piling up. No re-entry pain for me on Monday, nope!
Sleeping. Thinking. Watching Star Wars. Reading Furiously Happy. Writing my 2015 retrospective -- which can't be done, because the year's not over, but I started early because it was on my mind. Holy shit, there are some lessons in there this time.
Working out every day (except Christmas). I've managed a couple of half-decent press handstands off the plyo ball, out of many attempts. It feels like a grindy level of some video game where I just have to keep trying, learning to feel the stack, getting closer more often.
Walking around the square on Christmas Eve in my T-shirt, feeling deeply confused at the 68-degree weather and taking pictures of budding and/or flowering plants that are also deeply confused.
Has anyone here read, or heard much about, The Desire Map? It's self-helpy, and I'm told there's no need to read the book if you know about the premise. The idea is that most of your goals aren't really about the goals themselves, but about how you expect to feel upon goal attainment -- so the best way to feel happy fast is to turn that around, think how you like to or want to feel first, and then do things that make you feel that way. I find this idea quite interesting, and in line with how I'd like to live, though I still want to get my press handstand... or I think I do. Maybe I want to feel like I've successfully climbed a big personal-skills mountain and gained a lot of physical strength & control. In which case it might make me feel good to go to the gym and do other things that were once mountains, and work on increasing my skillset. Oh hey, it does! :D
I'm not sold on the notion entirely, but I do think it's worth thinking about other ways I want to feel.
For starters, I'm working a little every day. Nothing crazy, I swear, but spending an hour or two keeps things from piling up. No re-entry pain for me on Monday, nope!
Sleeping. Thinking. Watching Star Wars. Reading Furiously Happy. Writing my 2015 retrospective -- which can't be done, because the year's not over, but I started early because it was on my mind. Holy shit, there are some lessons in there this time.
Working out every day (except Christmas). I've managed a couple of half-decent press handstands off the plyo ball, out of many attempts. It feels like a grindy level of some video game where I just have to keep trying, learning to feel the stack, getting closer more often.
Walking around the square on Christmas Eve in my T-shirt, feeling deeply confused at the 68-degree weather and taking pictures of budding and/or flowering plants that are also deeply confused.
Has anyone here read, or heard much about, The Desire Map? It's self-helpy, and I'm told there's no need to read the book if you know about the premise. The idea is that most of your goals aren't really about the goals themselves, but about how you expect to feel upon goal attainment -- so the best way to feel happy fast is to turn that around, think how you like to or want to feel first, and then do things that make you feel that way. I find this idea quite interesting, and in line with how I'd like to live, though I still want to get my press handstand... or I think I do. Maybe I want to feel like I've successfully climbed a big personal-skills mountain and gained a lot of physical strength & control. In which case it might make me feel good to go to the gym and do other things that were once mountains, and work on increasing my skillset. Oh hey, it does! :D
I'm not sold on the notion entirely, but I do think it's worth thinking about other ways I want to feel.
