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[isayel]

Fruit automnal #seasonalfruit #fibres #oneappleaday #rawfood #pomme https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck6HHPYqILV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fuzzylovies]

Finished half apple ornaments class for my tomorrow’s class that’s at 1 pm at @portfiber. Might I see you there? #fuzzylovies #apple #oneappleaday #halfapples #appleornament #ornaments #holidays #holidayseason #holidayornaments #holidayornaments2021 #holidays2021 #maine #portlandme #portlandmaine #fiberart #fiberartist #mainefiberartist #mainefiberart #montessori #waldorf #fruit (at Portfiber) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTqcJZgs2WN/?utm_medium=tumblr

[jikits]

Yayyy!! The red apple block print I made is in the German newspaper today! 🍎 Every day there’s a whole section of activities for children at home during #covid19 🌞Who do you think looks out of this apple? Kids can draw them in the windows. #oneappleaday #germannewspaper #szfamilie #süddeutschezeitungfamilie Thank you @s_stolle for all the beautiful art and inspiration you bring to children everyday✨ (at Munich, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_UwPMml5B5/?igshid=17tv2p7ka91h6

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One Apple A Day #412

This is fascinating. I picked a BeTheChange card this morning. One that says "Being Creative by BEING who you are". This card is an invitation to explore my bigger me. It challenges me to think about when I'm most of who I am.

I started writing about the quest for who we are. But words weren't flowing. I wrote and rewrote each sentence.

Until I realised that I wasn't me. Sometimes, the search for something can take us away for that same thing that we are looking for. Like in this case. In my desire to find the real me I was walking away from it. My bigger who is not in the answer. It lives and expresses itself in the question.

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One Apple A Day #411

How do you handle boredom? Do you ever feel bored? I do. Like in those weekends when the weather is grey enough to take away every desire to set a foot outside, and I want to lie down and do nothing.

I love doing nothing. I'm never tired of doing nothing. But my mind plays tricks with me. In those days when I'm doing nothing, my mind starts whispering.

"You're wasting your time again." "Shouldn't you do something meaningful?" "Why aren't you doing that work you've been procrastinating all week?" "Many things are happening in this city, and you're missing them all."

It goes on until the boredom arrives and I feel the guilt for wasting my time in meaningless activities instead of going out with my partner. It is tough to slow down and take a pause in our busy lives. And it's not a practical problem. It's a perception problem. It's the fear of missing out and wasting my time that creates that feeling of boredom.

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One Apple A Day #410

Journaling is one of the most common practices for self-exploration. I've been writing in my journal every morning for the last two years. It has been a vital component of my journey. Through this simple morning practice, I've learned more about myself, and I became more aware of my thoughts and actions. Though, lately, I felt a stuck as if I had peaked in this practice. The morning ritual of journaling was becoming almost mechanical, and my writing wasn't giving me any valuable insights about myself.

In her book Insights, Tasha Eurich warns us about the risks of introspection and self-reflection if we don't do them in the right way. It is easy to get trap in our thoughts becoming blind to our behaviours and how they are affecting our life.

So, a week ago I decided to shift from introspection to observation. While the first is about going inside and dig deep into thoughts and emotions, the second is about observing my behaviours, words and actions. It's like taking a step out and observe myself from the outside. I use my journal to ask straightforward questions such as:

Did you do your best to live your values, today?

Were your actions aligned with your long-term vision?

Have you done anything to serve the person you want to be?

If the answer is yes, I write about how I can keep doing it. If it's no, I write about what I can change or how I can do better.

It has been only one week so far, but I'm already learning a lot about myself.

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One Apple A Day #409

What makes something important? This is the question that summarises yesterday.

Importance is very subjective. What’s important for me, or for my team, can be entirely irrelevant for someone else. Though, do you know what makes something more important than something else?

When you don’t have clarity about your metrics, you end up using other’s scale of importance, or urgency, or the emotions of the moment. In any case, you won’t be effective in your action because you won’t feel it as essential for yourself.

My measure of importance is informed by my destination. I start by where I'm going. My goals or, even better, my aspirations. I found that the most useful metrics is the one that helps me understand if I am moving, not just forward, but closer to my destination.

When I have to decide if something is important, I asked myself two questions:

Does it help me advance towards my destination?

Is it aligned with my values?

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One Apple A Day #408

In the last three days, I had at least three conversations about the awareness, knowledge and understanding. I'm reading this as a sign that I need to dig more on the subject.

The dictionary is always the right place to start.

Knowledge: facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Understanding: the ability to perceive the intended meaning of something; comprehension.

Awareness: knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

The first thing I notice is that knowledge requires understanding. We can't really say that we know something if we don't understand it. David Weinberger says that "Knowledge without understanding is like, well, information". So, my "understanding" is that knowledge is not objective. Facts and information are objective, but knowledge requires me to perceive the intended meaning of those facts and information. My knowledge may be different from yours even if we start from the same information.

But what about awareness? Awareness is all about the experience. It is our unique experience of a fact or information.  

The real questions here are: do we need to understand something to be aware of it? Do we need to have knowledge of something to be mindful of it?