Just some stuff about me.
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What links here:
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/behavior/podcast-821-routines-are-overrated/
The routine we build is the ‘ideal’. But things always get in the way, and if we don’t reach that ideal, the day feels ruined. Don’t be over-ambitious.
Time is a “splodge”, not linear and rigid. Work with the time you have instead of waiting for ‘the best time’.
“Finish the day and be done with it.” Whatever kind of blunders we might have made today, we don’t need to take them into tomorrow.
Wasting time could actually just be the incubation. It’s the thinking. And we’ve really, I think, devalued thinking, when we put so much emphasis on accomplishment and productivity. Thinking is the very thing that I think if we skip over it, it can lead to mistakes.
Things are inherently dynamic and inconsistent. Balance is temporary and it is this active balancing rather than perfect balance. And when we recognize that, we can sort of see that we might be in these distinct stages that change. A routine that served you at one point might no longer serve you.
We can actually view ourselves more like sponges. And that is that like a sponge, we’d need time to absorb things, the world around us, we need to fill up, have that thinking time, take in the inspiration, simply just rest. But the thing is that we can’t sit and absorb for too long because that’s when we become over-saturated or we can succumb to that complacency or inertia. And just like a sponge, we need that squeeze, that action, the doing, the outpouring of the ideas.
There are seasons to life. So there’s gonna be a winter season where you’re not really doing anything. And then spring, you’re gonna be starting to… Things are blooming, you might start planting, preparing the ground. Summer, you’re planting. Fall, it’s gonna be really busy, you’re gonna be harvesting and working. And then winter, it goes back to that dead cycle. You’re gonna have periods where it doesn’t seem like anything’s growing, but if you just kinda keep grafting it and watering it and just doing the bare minimum you have to do, eventually it’s gonna give some fruit. You just have to be patient with it.