So this month has really shown me that time management remains one of my biggest hurdles. So for April, I am going to try and follow a schedule M-F, as I am able (there will be some travel, so I’ll have to be flexible there). I’ve sketched out the schedule Read more…
I don’t like Mondays. Silly question: working a meaningless job M-F makes Mondays the day when meaning is put on hold. This experiment was maybe a dumb idea, but I have a couple more days of March so tonight, I’m going to try another bed-meditation. Gardening is still my favorite, Read more…
Which is to say, my house is not yet clean, but some of it is much cleaner. M and I went on a picture hanging spree, and several framed prints, photos, and paintings went up. It felt like progress, which I haven’t felt for awhile. I also made some knitting Read more…
it was cold and drizzly today, but I planted a lot of stuff. (The tulips were planted last November, but are about to bloom and I’m very pleased.) I planted: four types of strawberries, raspberries, and two different tomatoes. I also prepped beds for the herbs and lettuce and I Read more…
Okay, one of them is how easy it is to forget to brush your teeth. Another is forgetting how to talk to people–like, the cashier at the health food store doesn’t really care about your thoughts on coconut oil as a face cream. And third, I’m just hypothesizing with a Read more…
I sat for 15 minutes today, which feels like such a victory, even though it is short my original goal for the month. Goals should be smart, attainable, etc–but how do you move forward after failure? I gave up once before, after art school, because I couldn’t visualize a viable Read more…
It’s raining and the cold is coming back, and just when I’ve gotten pots to transplant all my sprouts into, too! It’s also cold and raining on my grand plan to be better at mindfulness than I was last year. My brain is fighting mindfulness the most, and this month Read more…
today was not unlike yesterday. The difference is that I’m going to drink my hot cocoa now and then listen to a sleep deeply meditation. Fingers crossed it’s not a glowing ball of golden light type of visualization.
I’m really struggling to find my focus for more than 30 minutes at a time. I don’t think it is meditation’s fault or failure, and I think that my problem is beyond meditation’s ability to address. But man, was today tough. I’m just now done with the bare minimum I Read more…
I watched a TED talk today, and I KNOW they are the lazy first-year professor’s friend which should tell me something. After all, I watched that hilarious segment on John Oliver: But, not unlike the spectrum of junk food, some of these really are good! (Here’s the one I watched): Read more…