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3. Lists

Playlist

To-do list

List of times

Name list

Priority list

Lists bring order to the chaos inside your head. Lists can be numbered or not, it makes a great perceptive difference if they are or not. Makes everything even more precise. With lists you write down the items and that allows you to forget. Because in the end you won’t forget because it’s recorded somewhere. Your brain gets a break and a breather this way.

Making lists is a very self-reflective process (for me at least). You think before you write. It’s an extra layer to pass through, but this process is beneficial in the sense of filtering out unnecessary bullet points. I believe that in the end having a list and therefore a plan can save you lots of time, even if you first have to invest some of it to create your plan.

However, sometimes a list isn’t the optimal way of portraying an amount of datapoints. People for example mostly exist in a cloud for me. A mind cloud, the names floating around in the empty imaginary space before me.

So maybe I can say that the opposite of lists are clouds (?)

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2. On the phone

Okay so this title is fitting twofold.

One, it’s because I’m writing this on my phone. Not quite out of necissity, but out of lazinesss of unpacking my laptop. Even though I could tell before having started typing on my screen that I much refer to have a real keyboard to work on.

Two, it’s about my dependency on my phone in just about every moment. Practical, but simultaneously a curse. But unlike sleeping beauty, I’m consciously deciding to feed into this curse and don’t really mind because the alternative seems worse.

If I wouldn’t use my phone, this post would not have been written, streak broken, over. So, more than a little part of me is grateful for the convenience factor enabling me to produce content this way. (Though arguably the quality may be better when written from a laptop, but no guarantee on that either.)

However, the ability to connect us with others through our phones is often its greatest pitfall. How you may ask? Because it makes everyone seem available at every time. (Which totally isn’t the case.) And thus you spend so much time wasted by often anxiously waiting for someone to reply. By making this waiting something stressful, it makes us feel alone and forgotten in the moment. Creating a disconnect to the other person you’re trying to reach. (They probably don’t even notice it.)

So what can we do to combat this disappointment and problem with impatience? Perhaps it’s best to kill all expectation. And on top of that realise that a phone is little more than a rectangular box we like to stare at with a shiny screen that only holds immeasurable power over us when it’s illuminated. Nothing more. Nothing less.

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1. New start

It’s 00:00. Quite some luck. I’m always deciding to write when I’m actually stressed to do other stuff (in my case right now: studying for anatomy class tomorrow).

How come I’ve come to this decision then?

I’ve been consuming some literary media lately, more precisely “Linchpin” - by Seth Godin. And yesterday at maybe quarter past midnight, I’ve decided to finally google him, after having been reading his book for the past five days. With my internet search I stumbled upon his blog. It’s really interesting and I have to get back to it again. In one post he mentioned something about how everyone should try to aim for a blogpost a day for a 1000 days. It will take a little less than three years and will produce a lot of content in addition to acting as perfect writing and thinking practice.

Couple that with a half watched NaNoWriMo video, which has also been going on since five days, and I’m sold on the idea to try it myself.

I am truthful and admit to be sceptical about how long my streak will last, since I’m a busy-body and writing does take up time. (bla bla bla, i know it’s about setting up your priorities and consciously deciding where to rank your tasks on the scale bla bla)

But I believe this is a good start.

Also the repurposing of my old tumblr blog (because let’s be real, I know that if I tried to set up a whole new url on wordpress and the likes, I’d end up procrastinating far too much with the blog design or miniscule details that simply don’t entail writing) is a refreshing gust of new wind (that sounds like a German idiom literally translated into English and not working at all, nvmd ? )

So that’s enough for now and I’ll get back to my trusty anatomy atlas and the ridiculous amount of muscles we have in our upper arm and axilla region.

Just two more points of information that may be of interest:

1. I’ll number every post and add any title I see fit for the day.

2. If I googled it correctly and really create + stick to this new habit, I’ll be done with this challenge on August 2nd 2021, which should be just around the time I start my KPJ.

Let’s see what happens, though I’m not that confident in my consistency.