I love this! the pandemic has made me really rethink my goal setting, and I'm kind of in limbo with my living situation rn, so its helpful to just let things happen as they happen
I hear you on the goals, Siel. It's the alpha personality, or at least they used to call it that. I only got a little better with yoga and meditation. I don't have goals there besides doing it almost every day. I don't expect to reach nirvana in meditation and yoga is just for staying flexible and pain free ( no head stands for me).
Society pressures us all into this higher-faster-further mindset. Resist! You're doing it right.
I'm with you on goals. Even the things I've accomplished (get a degree, advance in my job, organize my pantry) have seemed more like solutions to problems than goals per se. Goals strike me as driven by desire for what we don't have. I am mainly motivated to restore or maintain happiness. Maybe I'm just complacent. Hopefully not smug.
Have you read *Theophilus North*? That is everything I know about Newport ;-)
I love this! the pandemic has made me really rethink my goal setting, and I'm kind of in limbo with my living situation rn, so its helpful to just let things happen as they happen
I hear you on the goals, Siel. It's the alpha personality, or at least they used to call it that. I only got a little better with yoga and meditation. I don't have goals there besides doing it almost every day. I don't expect to reach nirvana in meditation and yoga is just for staying flexible and pain free ( no head stands for me).
Society pressures us all into this higher-faster-further mindset. Resist! You're doing it right.
I'm with you on goals. Even the things I've accomplished (get a degree, advance in my job, organize my pantry) have seemed more like solutions to problems than goals per se. Goals strike me as driven by desire for what we don't have. I am mainly motivated to restore or maintain happiness. Maybe I'm just complacent. Hopefully not smug.
Have you read *Theophilus North*? That is everything I know about Newport ;-)