So I'm Coming Back Into The Room Here Like Nothing Happened
To me it's like nothing happened. My business DEFINITELY thinks something happened.
Sometime last summer I did the email and business equivalent of leaving the room at a party and not coming back.
Not vanished exactly.
More like I wandered off to rearrange some furniture, then decided it might be good to knock out a few walls and rethink the layout of the whole house.
Either way, it’s already April and this feels like coming back into the main room and sitting down properly.
So I thought I would keep the first one simple and share three things I like and use or built myself.
This is the only meditation app I have ever wanted to use more than once.
I use it when my mind is acting like it has been hired to make everything harder than it needs to be.
It settles me down much faster than trying to reason or willpower my way into a better mood, which has never once impressed me with its success rate.
I built this for the kind of stuck that is hard to explain without a quart of wine and a white board flow chart.
Not the obvious kind of stuck where you know exactly what to change and just need to get after it.
The other kind.
Where something feels off in your life and everything seems heavier than it should.
When you can’t quite tell what is a real problem and what is your own thinking making everything more sticky.
It’s not a personality test or a forever label.
The Mirror is just a quick look at the pattern that might be making things harder than they need to be.
It’s free, and I made it myself. I’d love if you would check it out.
This one lets you write an email to your future self and choose when it arrives.
A few years ago one landed on a morning I happened to wake up next to my partner Jonathan.
I had written it the year before, when we were still broken up and I was convinced our relationship was over for good.
In the email I had described the life I wanted, including being with him.
Reading about my old heartbreak while he was still asleep next to me had a certain kind of thrill to it.
Not because the website performed magic. Because it reminded me how convincing a frightened mind can be about the future, and how wrong.
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