Little things from the weekend
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flexagonHerd immunity: got my flu shot last week.
Handstands: I'm obsessed with tuck-ups now. After years of finding them intractably difficult to do correctly, to the point where it was all frustration and no learning, I now find them instructive. Progress?
Election: my town is offering early voting, and I'm tempted.
Book: I read The Now Habit. I'm not a procrastinator, but I do have some of those in my life. I also have some "fear of success", in the form of being exhausted by a staircase of ever-increasing expectations (or the notion of such). To be free of that, it seems really important to make iron-clad commitments to play and to the enjoyment of life -- conclusions I was beginning to draw already. There's more to think on, there.
And I ordered two pairs of custom jeans from makeyourownjeans.com; we'll see how that goes. I'm surprised that custom clothing's not a much bigger industry yet, especially for things like jeans where relatively inflexible fabric sits close to a widely varying part of the body.
Handstands: I'm obsessed with tuck-ups now. After years of finding them intractably difficult to do correctly, to the point where it was all frustration and no learning, I now find them instructive. Progress?
Election: my town is offering early voting, and I'm tempted.
Book: I read The Now Habit. I'm not a procrastinator, but I do have some of those in my life. I also have some "fear of success", in the form of being exhausted by a staircase of ever-increasing expectations (or the notion of such). To be free of that, it seems really important to make iron-clad commitments to play and to the enjoyment of life -- conclusions I was beginning to draw already. There's more to think on, there.
And I ordered two pairs of custom jeans from makeyourownjeans.com; we'll see how that goes. I'm surprised that custom clothing's not a much bigger industry yet, especially for things like jeans where relatively inflexible fabric sits close to a widely varying part of the body.
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Date: 2016-10-18 09:05 pm (UTC)Custom clothes: oh man, I wish so MUCH that there were more of an industry for that. As someone who makes clothes now and then, I can say that making custom clothes is extremely difficult and time-consuming, and people are not willing to pay for that, even if it's expensive up front and way less expensive later. That whole industry will take off when there's a full body scanner that can print out a pattern that will fit the first time. Or a full body scanner that could provide dimensions to a 3d printer that could print a dress form. This is coming, but it's still in the early stages.
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Date: 2016-10-19 03:27 am (UTC)Some things I really liked were some "replace this phrase with that" type mind hacks. My favorite one being to change "I have to finish by..." with "When can I start...", which really puts the emphasis back on choice (you don't HAVE TO start, you CHOOSE TO start), and also focuses on the very next step rather than looking at the whole huge slog of a project all at once. There's also a certain nice eagerness to it. :)
I would say the biggest single focus was on something like "keep starting, and let finishing take care of itself". There was a lot about solid 30-minute blocks of work and always rewarding yourself. Also, committing really hard to your non-work time, so that work time feels limited and precious and you're more eager to use it.
The part about fear of success was mostly about making sure to always be committed to your enjoyment of life, with guilt-free time blocked out, essentially (though it didn't put it this way) so that you CAN'T work unsustainable levels and thereby get trapped into some level of expectation that's truly too high.
Custom clothes: a lot of knitters make custom sweaters, including past-me! Beyond that, though, it seems rare. makeyourownjeans.com is cheap enough to make me cringe -- $65 per pair?? I would have paid easily double or maybe more for a similar US-based service, but there was none to be found.
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Date: 2016-10-19 03:28 am (UTC)Some things I really liked were some "replace this phrase with that" type mind hacks. My favorite one being to change "I have to finish by..." with "When can I start...", which really puts the emphasis back on choice (you don't HAVE TO start, you CHOOSE TO start), and also focuses on the very next step rather than looking at the whole huge slog of a project all at once. There's also a certain nice eagerness to it. :)
I would say the biggest single focus was on something like "keep starting, and let finishing take care of itself". There was a lot about solid 30-minute blocks of work and always rewarding yourself. Also, committing really hard to your non-work time, so that work time feels limited and precious and you're more eager to use it.
The part about fear of success was mostly about making sure to always be committed to your enjoyment of life, with guilt-free time blocked out, essentially (though it didn't put it this way) so that you CAN'T work unsustainable levels and thereby get trapped into some level of expectation that's truly too high.
Custom clothes: a lot of knitters make custom sweaters, including past-me! Beyond that, though, it seems rare. makeyourownjeans.com is cheap enough to make me cringe -- $65 per pair?? I would have paid easily double or maybe more for a similar US-based service, but there was none to be found.
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