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Self-Care Sunday: 5 Routine Ways to Take Care of Your Mental Health

I’ve felt my mental health slipping lately. As someone who has suffered high anxiety (clinically diagnosed social anxiety) and depression several times, I fear the low moods that crop up too often are a warning sign of the inevitable: my depression returning.

However, this isn’t necessarily the case. Negative emotions are just as valid and important as positive ones. Sadly, we can’t pick and choose. All we can do is feel them all and notice what they’re trying to tell us about ourselves and our lives.

If, like me, you want to be someone who tries to keep on top of their mental wellness as much as possible, then here are my top 5 ways to care for your mental health as part of your everyday routine.

 

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1 – There’s An App For That

Firstly, it is a great idea to find an app (or two) that works for you and your needs. Thankfully, there are loads of apps to download on your phone that can help with your mental wellness.

Search any of the following to find what you may want or need in the App Store:

Meditation
Work Out
Yoga
Mindfulness
Habit Tracker
Productivity
Sleep
Walk/ Run
Water
To-Do
Journal
Thoughts
Organise

And then use them every day. Allow them to send you notifications so that you don’t forget.

 

2 – Activity

In order to keep up a level of mental wellness, you need to be active every day. You can’t allow yourself to fall victim to this lifestyle of sitting for 8 hours at your desk, sitting while you commute to and from work, then going home to sit on the sofa while you eat dinner and watch TV!

It’s so easily done, I know, but it’s also not that hard to incorporate some activity within it all. Not only will this be great for your body, but it works to keep the mind fit, awake, and healthy, too.

Take a walk at break times
Take the stairs
Walk to work if you can, or walk the long route from the car park/train station
Get up to stretch every hour at your desk
Do some exercise before or after work
Definitely be active on the weekends

 

3 – Awareness

Self-awareness is the key to mental wellness – there, I said it! If you are aware of what you’re thinking and feeling, you’re in a better position to do something about it, instead of being ignorant and feeling bad without knowing why.

 

How do you develop awareness?

Journal 
Spend time alone
Spend time being still and quiet (meditation, yoga, slow-paced activity)
Reading (ideally books about emotions, mental health, lifestyle, habits cognition etc. because it will help you identify things that are going on inside of you)
 Walking (ideally without a destination or anything playing on your headphones)
Mindfulness practices (paying attention to details around you; using the five senses to pick up on what’s around you and bringing yourself into the present moment)

 

Once you have started noticing thought patterns or emotions that keep cropping up, capture them. Write them down and take a look over the results. What is the pattern? What keeps happening or what situations trigger these feelings? This is important information for taking action for mental and emotional wellness.

*Sometimes, simply writing how you feel helps you feel better straight away.*

 

Also, awareness means being aware of other things that could contribute to poor mental health, like:

Sleep patterns
Nutrition (diet, vitamins, balance, energy)
Your environment
People and social health
Stress and overwhelm
A need you’ve neglected lately

 

4 – Productivity

I can’t lie, there is a direct correlation between my lower moods and inactivity. Days where I don’t do much or have any tasks, are the times I’m likely to feel low. The reason for this is partly because a bored mind starts looking for things to focus on, and sometimes (especially if you have a mental illness already) this is negative things and “problems” in your life.

This is why we need to find a balance. Not being too overwhelmed, overworked and over-stressed, but not bored or inactive either.

It’s important to be productive, not busy.

We live in a culture where fatigue, lack of sleep, and busyness is celebrated as some sort of trophy for the motivated and ambitious. This isn’t true; it’s a lie. Be productive instead. As in, take actionable, appropriate, calculated steps towards what you actually need to do. Not doing this and doing that, juggling a thousand things that are all half-arsed because you’re overwhelmed.

I definitely know that I’ve felt low since having my blog already scheduled for posts 2 months from now! So, not having much to do right now while I’m waiting for some things to start in my life soon is making me anxious.

It’s important to know a number of things that you can do to be productive even when you’re unemployed or haven’t got much going on (post on this coming soon). Add them to your routine to ensure that in all ways that are important to you, you know what a productive day looks like and you can take action towards it.

Read
Write
Exercise
Walk
Create
Puzzles and quizzes
Teach yourself a language
Learn a new skill
Meet up with a friend

 

5 – Share

And lastly, it’s important to share. I know this is outside the comfort zone of so many people, but to tell you the truth, my mental health has been so much better since I let go of the fear of judgement and just spoke about it. Having my blog, going to therapy, speaking with friends and family about how I feel has taken the pressure off my mind.

I will always encourage people to share how they feel in a safe space.

Therapy was amazing for me. Not because it’s fun, but because having that space to go deep into how I felt was so important and something you don’t realise you need until you do it.

Find that one friend who you can open up completely with
Speak to a therapist
Attend a group or class where these things are shared
Host a blog
Join an online forum

 

These are the things that work for me. I know that I feel lowest when I’m not being productive, active, or aware enough, and when I’m not sharing or using the resources out there to help me.

Use these things as part of your weekly routine, and you will be caring for your mind regularly.

I hope I’ve helped a little, take care x

 

If you need any help in bettering your mental health, or better coping with anxiety, depression, and stress, then my book “You’re As Mad As I Am” may be for you. Check it out here, and download a free sample to see what it’s all about.

Check out my FREE downloadable workbooks that can walk you through emotions, mental wellness, confidence, low moods and more.

Think About It: The Pain of Waiting

As I’m writing this, I’m in a waiting stage in my life. Where I’m waiting to start a new chapter that hasn’t yet begun. This new chapter is uncertain, though hopefully exciting. And it is the waiting that is the hard part, really. It is the waiting that is giving me anxiety.

Now for me, I get anxious a lot more before an event than I do at said event. I think this is because of the oh-so-easy overthinking and imagining that an anxious mind can do. Where you imagine scenarios and outcomes that could be undesirable. Of course – well, usually – the event itself doesn’t go how you imagined and more often than not, it goes just fine or even great!

The same can be true with new life chapters, except, you just don’t know yet…

 

Schrodinger’s Cat

Let’s talk about the Thought Experiment Schrodinger’s Cat.

“In simple terms, Schrödinger stated that if you place a cat and something that could kill the cat (a radioactive atom) in a box and sealed it, you would not know if the cat was dead or alive until you opened the box, so that until the box was opened, the cat was (in a sense) both “dead and alive”.”

To wrap it up – and it really doesn’t matter what version of this idea you’ve heard before – it just means that in life, there are unknown outcomes in some situations. That two things can be true at once until you take a step to uncover the answer. Sometimes, too, the act of taking the step causes the outcome to occur, though we have no way to know that for sure.

So, it is both true, as of now in the waiting stage of my life, that I will do XYZ and it will go great and I’ll be happy with the choice; and it’s also true that I will do XYZ and hate it and be totally unhappy!

I can’t know the answer, though, unless I do the thing.

 

If you, like me, are in an in-between stage of your life where you’re not here or there yet. Where you’re waiting for something to start or end or result in something, then try to breathe through it. No amount of thinking, controlling, or sinking into negativity will alter the outcome. The only thing we can do is do the thing and see what happens.

Seeing life as an experiment helps us to take it all less seriously. To simply run with an idea or theory with curiosity and see what happens. From there, we have the data to inform us of what works and what doesn’t. And then, we just make the next move and do the next experiment.

Simple, right?

Waiting sucks, but we can’t wait forever. Change happens, things end and begin, and we just have to breathe, do our best, and adapt as we go.

 

Other ideas about waiting:

Don’t wait too long
Don’t wait for your life (or a situation) to fix itself
Don’t get into the habit of waiting for some future better life where you will be happy and things will be easy
Don’t voluntarily wait too much in life, otherwise, you’re causing your own pain

 

Good luck x

 

 

 

How to Change The Past

It is a common saying that “you can’t change the past” and I agree. I’m sure we all do. But I do believe there is a way to change how you feel about the past, which, in a way, does change it.

So, here are my thoughts on how to change the past…

 

Get some perspective

Sometimes, when the past feels hurtful and we beat ourselves up, it’s because we’re looking at it from one perspective. We are zoomed in and focused on one aspect or one side of the story.

Obviously, I can’t speak for all situations or experiences, but in many cases, there is a new way to look at things from the past that could free us from the bad feelings surrounding it.

 

For example, I have beat myself up a lot about my decisions around university. (This shouldn’t be a new story to avid readers of my blog!) I sometimes feel that I could have made better decisions back then; that maybe I was wrong; what if this and what if that?

But with a different perspective, I realise that I made the decisions that I thought were best for me with the information I had at the time. From this, my life is not bad. I did not doom myself forever.

And since, I’ve realised that the reasons I was beating myself up for weren’t really where my focus should have been anyway. It’s not that I was a loser for dropping out after a week due to panic attacks. It’s not that I was making a mistake for dropping out again after a year on my Psychology course.

My only real “mistake” was not in choosing what I truly wanted for myself, which was to study English and Creative Writing. That is the only what if I have now. And this isn’t as huge a mistake or failure as the other things seemed to be for so long. Plus, it’s something I can correct now, should I wish…

 

Taking this new perspective on a situation that bothered me from the past, has helped me to feel better about what happened.

 

Fix the mistake

As I say, correcting a misstep is a great way to change the past. You’re not going back in time and doing something different, but you can choose to do something different now and not make the same mistakes.

So, maybe you don’t choose a boyfriend like the terrible Ex you had before.

Maybe you go back to study and do it your way regardless of what anyone else thinks or says.

Maybe you take the job with less pay but more fulfilment this time.

Making better choices than the past means you learned something from that experience. It’s given you perspective, knowledge, and retrospective insight. Now, it’s time to use it.

“When you know better, you do better,” – Maya Angelou

 

Rewrite the narrative

If something happened in your past that you can’t get over, it’s likely that there is a story about what happened that keeps playing on repeat in your mind. A story about what happened, what you did, who you are/were, and how awful it was for you (and others).

This story, this situation, is likely to be a false memory. A false narrative. We are imperfect, with imperfect memories. It is proven that our memories are affected by our emotions. There is a likelihood that what we think happened, didn’t actually go down that way.

 

I’m not saying it wasn’t awful. I’m saying there is a way that we can rewrite this narrative that we have in our heads about what happened.

We can choose to see it from a new perspective, as I said before. We can choose to get more information about it from other people, to get clear on the truth rather than our emotional fabrications.

You can choose to see the positive in that situation (if applicable). You can choose to see what it taught you. You can choose to forgive. You can choose to see that it wasn’t due to bad luck, personal attacks, or anything like that; that you’re not doomed in life.

 

Whatever it is, you can choose, even a little, to write a new story about what happened and the role it played in your life.

 

Apologise

If something bad happened and it was your fault; if you’re riddled with guilt and fear, then do something about it. Don’t let the past eat at you. It’s okay to forgive yourself and to seek forgiveness from those you’ve wronged.

It takes a strong, brave person to admit their faults. To hold up their hands and sincerely say, “I was wrong” and correct the situation.

Be that person.

Save yourself from the pain of a mistake or a past decision/action. Don’t say that you don’t deserve it. Everyone can seek redemption if they see their sins for what they are. You may not be forgiven, but knowing you tried to right a wrong can be incredibly life-changing.

 

And if you are someone who was wronged, forgive the person who wronged you. Not because they deserve it (from your perspective); not because you’re a good person. But just because in forgiveness, we free ourselves.

 

Heal yourself

Healing is about going through your internal murky waters and purifying it in the hope of taking away the power that your past has over you.

Trauma is very difficult to heal from, I know; I’ve seen the remnants of it in the eyes of people I know and love. But there is a way to heal those wounds, even if it still leaves behind scars that remind you of it now and again.

As I say, it’s all about tending to open wounds so that they can no longer cause you so much pain.

Advice on how to heal from your past:

Stop poking the wound: in order for a wound to heal, you must stop touching it. We must try to stop revisiting what happened in the past. Stop giving it power. Stop talking about it and acting like you’re still a victim of that circumstance.
Seek professional help: if you are struggling with trauma of any kind that is plaguing you often, I recommend that you seek help from a medical professional.
Confront the fear: some situations require you to confront a problem, person, situation, place, or phobia in order to take the power away. It’ll be scary and uncomfortable, but if appropriate, it may be time to take a deep breath and face the fear of your past so that you can move on.
Acceptance: this is a big one for me. I know that with some things, you can’t face a fear or fix a problem. Instead, it’s just about accepting what happened, forgiving yourself for it, and taking actionable steps to move past it. To decide not to keep reading over the same chapters and start writing new ones.
Feel it: some things need to be felt. Some people run from their past and don’t realise that the emotions from it are chasing after them. Instead, be brave and allow yourself to feel what needs to be felt, accept what it means, change your view on what happened, and heal.
Decide to move on: at the end of the day, sometimes there’s nothing left to do but to decide, once and for all, to move on. To decide that the past can’t dictate who you are or what you’ll do anymore. To decide to choose differently, and be free from the shackles of what happened back then.

A bullet wound won’t heal with a simple bandage placed over it.

You can’t change what has happened to you or what you have been through. You can’t go back and correct a mistake. There are no Timeturners here, I’m afraid.

But you can choose to look at what happened differently. You can make a better decision with the information you now have and the person you are today. You can decide to stop opening the same wounds, and finally stop revisiting it in your mind or your conversations or whatever else.

You change the past by deciding that those doors are closed now, and you are able to choose differently for yourself this time.

You can be stronger, smarter, braver, and kinder than you were in the past. Meaning that you choose better, act better, and get through whatever comes your way.

 

Workbooks to consider downloading to help you through feelings of the past:

Life Gunk Journaling workbook

The Low Mood Workbook

How to Stop Feeling Stuck

If you need any help in bettering your mental health, or better coping with anxiety, depression, and stress, then my book “You’re As Mad As I Am” may be for you. Check it out here, and download a free sample to see what it’s all about.

How to Make the Most of Autumn (Video)

Let’s talk about how to make the most of Autumn. It is officially Autumn time now, and for some that’s great but for others, it’s not. However, it’s here and there’s nothing we can do but enjoy it!

Here’s how I’m going to enjoy Autumn…

Click to play!

 

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How Defining Things Can Help You Feel Better About Life

I was listening to the Awesome with Alison podcast the other day and she spoke about how defining things can help you to feel better about your life. And it was funny because I’d been doing that same thing recently without realising what I was doing and why it was helping me to feel better.

And so, now that I have a name for it, I want to explain to you guys how defining things in your life properly can help you to feel happier and healthier and ready to go.

 

What does “define” mean?

“state or describe exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of.”

“mark out the boundary or limits of.”

So, being able to accurately define things in your life can help you to know what you actually want and what success in that area actually looks like for you.

Let me explain…

 

How definitions help us in life:

Clarity: When you can accurately, and simply, define things in your life, you can have a clearer head about those things. You know for sure what’s going on, what’s important, and where your focus needs to be.
Goals: When you have definitions for your life, it’s easier to then know what your goals are, why, and how to achieve them on a personal level.
Purpose: Much like goals, having set definitions will help to know your purpose; to know what it looks like to go after your North Star.
Comparison: When we know our definitions in life, and we believe them confidently, we care less what others think or what their definitions are for them.

 

So, what is it in our lives that we need to “define” and why? Here are my ideas…

 

Define your fears

I put this one first because, for me, it’s hard to know what you’re afraid of. I mean, what you’re actually afraid of.

The other day I was feeling very anxious and I told my partner as much. He then asked, and rightly so, “what is making you anxious?” And I struggled to find the answer. I wanted to say “I just feel anxious, okay? Now fix me!” but that wouldn’t be fair or right.

Yes, with general anxiety disorder, it can be that you feel anxious without a real reason. But how often do we try to find the reason? How often do we just sit in our fear and let it overwhelm us?

Instead, DEFINE YOUR FEARS.

This is the only way to get past them or at least allow them to have less power over you.

When I got real with myself and looked inward, I knew that I was afraid of being unhappy. Afraid of feeling overwhelmed and unsure with the new things coming into my life. Knowing this, having the right words, the right definitions for it, helped to relieve some of the anxiety right away.

Because, I often find that hiding the anxiety or ignoring it, or worse feeding it, is the best way to make it worse.

But when we define and shine a light on the truth of our fears, they seem a lot less scary.

And it might not be what you think it is when you get honest with yourself…

You’re not afraid of the dark, you’re afraid of the unknown things lurking in the dark.
You’re not afraid of heights, you’re afraid of falling.
You’re not afraid of water, you’re afraid of drowning/being lost at sea.


More often than not, our fears can be reduced down to one of these:

Fear of not being good enough
Fear of vulnerability (being out of control, unknown situations, failure, embarrassment, loneliness etc)

 

The only reason I fear being unhappy in my life is because I fear that I won’t be good enough to make my life what I want/need it to be.

 

Define what success is for you

The next one is perhaps simpler. We all want to be successful, but what does success actually look like for you? Because the thing is, success for me probably isn’t the same as it is for you.

Success for me is being a published, selling author. To make a living writing stories and sharing them with the world.

When I actually define it, there is no certain amount of money that I want. No certain awards or whatever. I just want to feel happy doing what I love, which is writing, and to make a living doing it. Because that would feel like an appropriate challenge, happiness, freedom, creativity, self-expression, and so many other things for me.

I believe that would grant me the life I want for me and my family.

So, what does success look like for you when you’re really honest with yourself? When you stop thinking about what society or your family (or whoever) might say?

 

Define what happiness is for you

And, in case your idea of success and happiness aren’t exactly the same, it’s important to define what happiness is for you. What makes you happy? What brings you joy? What would your daily life need to be like for you to feel generally happy and content?

A happy, healthy family
Freedom to travel and experience life/the world to the fullest
Ability to be creative
Balance
Support from great people
Seeing my books in stores
Inspiring others

We can’t be happy all the time, as it is an emotion, but we can be content or satisfied with life to the point where we’re not looking for a fix all the time. So, what would that look like for you?

 

Define what “enough” is for you

And lastly, what does “enough” look like for you. This is a big one that Alison spoke about on her podcast. We all fear that we aren’t good enough. Not pretty enough, smart enough, cool, interesting, rich, experienced, whatever-enough.

But what does “enough” even mean for you and your life?

What would your life (or your day) have to include for you to feel like you and your life are “enough” enough?

To know that I tried my best
To have made someone smile
To have taken even a small step towards my goals and dreams
To show love to the people I care about
To have given to myself in some way for health and happiness (reading, journaling, yoga, jogging, writing, creating)

 

Answer these:

When I picture my most successful life, what does it actually look like?
What does success look like for today only?
What does a happy life look like to me?
What would a happy day look like?
What are the origins/root of my fears? (define first, approach a solution/new mindset after)
What does it mean to be enough? Have enough? Do enough? How can I define what “doing my best” really looks like?

 

Other things you could Define:

What a good relationship looks like for you
What a productive day realistically looks like for you
What being a good person looks like for you
Financial stability looks like
Good health looks like
Balance looks like

 

And then, hold on to your definitions and follow your own rulebook.

Life isn’t a dictionary where there are set definitions that we all need to live by. Set your own definitions and do your best. You got this.

 

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Think About It: What Matters Most Isn’t Quantity or Quality

In life, in work, in love and everything else, it’s not about quantity…

The number of years you live.

The amount of money you make or jobs you’ve worked or skills and qualifications and promotions you obtain.

It’s not about how many people you’ve loved or slept with.

 

But it’s not about quality, either (not always)…

The quality of your life matters but it’s not the only thing.

The quality of your work matters but it’s not the only thing.

The quality of your love life matters but…

I think there is something else that matters much more than quantity or quality at the end of the day.

Showing up.

 

What matters most is that you try to live a good life. That you show up for yourself and your life.

That you show up to work or tasks and do your best.

That you show up in love and be there as the best you can.

The thing is, we can’t always deliver quality. We can’t always “live our best life” every day. We can’t deliver our best writing each time we sit down to do a chapter (this is what sparked this post, by the way). And we can’t always be having the best time in our relationships.

But if we decide that no matter what, we are going to show up and just try, that goes a long, long way.

 

Quick Examples: It’s not about having sex as many times as possible each week. It’s not about having the best sex of your life every week. It’s just about having sex at all!

It’s not about how many times you do yoga each week. It’s not about having your best session. It’s about showing up to do it at all.

It’s not about how many words or chapters you wrote or read. It’s not about writing or reading the best chapter ever. It’s about showing up and writing or reading at all.

 

So,

Get out of bed and do something even if there’s nothing you “need to do“
Show up for your fitness needs by doing the jog or the gym or the class and just giving it a go
Sit and write for however long you can (100-1000 words are words you didn’t have before, you can edit later)
Show up and sit with your partner even when you’re drained and can’t give your 100% best self

Allow yourself to be imperfect or to not do as much as you thought

 

What matters in life is that you’re showing up for yourself, your loved ones, your duties, your passion, your craft, your work, your dream, and just trying your best with what you have to give that day.

It’s not the number of things we do that matters and it’s not the quality (our best work) that we do, either. It’s about the doing at all, that’s what truly counts.

Stop putting expectations on yourself. Stop forcing things to be the best all the time. Get some perspective and realise all that really, truly matters at the end of the day is that you showed up, you did the thing, and you tried.

 

 

Life’s Lessons and The Hero’s Journey (Podcast)

There are so many times in life when we are given the same information over and over again. I believe this is life trying to teach us the same lessons so that we truly understand what they mean. As we go through these lessons, we are on our Hero’s Journey and the lessons are helping us find and accept our personal NEED.

Here are my thoughts on this…

Click to play!

https://srcrawfordauthor.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/lifes-lessons-and-the-heros-journey.mp3

 

Overall Health Checklist

Here are 50 things to check to ensure optimum healthiness in all areas of yourself and your life!

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Have you had your 5-a-Day?
Walked for at least 30 minutes today?
Have you exercised in some form?
Stretched and moved your body aptly?
In any pain? Does it need checking out?
Maintained a healthy standing-to-sitting ratio?
Had enough sunlight and nature?
Are you comfortable where you are?
Social time? Introverts and Extroverts have different social needs, remember that.
Work-Life balance?
Have you eaten enough? Eaten balanced today?
Slept enough?
What’s playing on your mind? Can it be dealt with in some way?
Digestive system working well?
Have you engaged your mind enough today? Reading, challenges?
Had too much caffeine?
Is your space clean and tidy?
Are you feeling burnt out from overworking?
Have you had enough time to engage your personal wants and needs? e.g. creative time, alone time, etc
Feeling lonely? Feeling crowded?
Have you dealt with your emotions appropriately today? e.g. Journaled, talked about it, confronted problems and triggers?
Did you wake too late? Feel rushed, overtired, off?
Procrastinating something? Avoiding something?
Have you been watching too much TV today? Or other mindless activities?
Are you feeling bored?
Overwhelmed or stressed?
Have you done an appropriate amount of planning and organisation for your weekly and daily tasks?
Have you engaged in too much social media time?
Have you got appropriate priorities?
Has balanced been maintained in your day? Activities, people, tasks, work, life, food, movement, mental, physical, emotional, and so on.
Are your check-ups up to date for doctors and appointments?
Have you been triggered emotionally recently and not dealt with it?
How’s the lightning and temperature where you are?
Are you on top of your finances?
Have you stayed in the same place all day?
Are you feeling stuck right now? Could you take the time to figure out why? (Post about feeling stuck)
Suffering from perfectionism? Self-sabotage, fears, limiting beliefs, unneeded pressures, Ego trouble?
Have you had a bad social encounter recently?
Are you having trouble with your routine? No routine, or too rigid a routine?
Good hygiene maintained? Appearance?
Enough water/ hydrated and nourished?
Enough still and quiet time?
Inspiration and motivation?
Done enough of the things that make you happy?
Gained perspective, mindset shift, or practised gratitude?
Someone or something causing you trouble right now? What could you do to solve this?
Worried about an event, deadline, or task? Anything you can do to solve this or think about it differently?
Have you laughed today? Let loose with dancing, laughing, chitchatting, having sex, etc?
Do you have goals, dreams, purpose, and drive in your life?
Do you feel on top of things? In control of your life? Happy? Fulfilled? Challenged? Purposeful? Powerful? Strong?

 

Search through my site’s archives to find content that will help you to feel healthier, stronger, and better in life and in yourself…

Stay healthy, Clan!

How Therapy Changed My Life (Video)

This is how therapy changed my life. I’ve been for therapy many times and I believe it has helped me with so many things now.

Here is how therapy helped to change my life…

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New Content Update: Thought Pieces

I have a lot of thoughts, duh. And I think some of my thoughts would be cool to share but I haven’t quite known how. Some thoughts are just small ideas that can’t be made into full blog posts. And some are longer than Tweets. And so, I wanted to try out a new content direction.

I want to share thought pieces.

The thought pieces will be snippet posts that just briefly gloss over an idea for you (and me) to consider further on our own afterwards. If it resonates, great; if not, that’s fine too! It’s just nice to share ideas, I think, and so that’s what I want to do.

I don’t yet know what to call them, but here are my ideas so far:

“Thinking Out Loud”

“Thought Capture”

“Just Thinking”

“Today’s Thought”

“Thought Share”

“My Thoughts”

“My Thoughts Exactly”

“Think About It”

Let me know in the comments (etc.) if you have a favourite name or an idea of your own.

Thanks, speak soon x