new habits!
i recently have begun keeping a daily log. its something i never really thought of doing before, and it has actually felt pretty good. sometimes, you just keep letting the days happen and i want to try and be more mindful, and that means trying to remember exactly what i did each day.
its not a habit yet. i made my first log entry on march 10, and another today. i like to do them at the end of the day, as a way of quieting down and thinking of all that happened, in my spiral bound notebook with a pen on paper. i don't know if i'll ever share every one here. maybe a page or so, but not every one.
i wish i could remember where i got the idea to start a log, i know it was on bear somewhere, but i can't for the life of me remember exactly whose blog it was on. so, whoever you are, who shared about keeping logs, thank you. it has begun to help me a lot.
something else that has kept me going lately is posting from my old laptop, my beloved 2012 macbook pro that i somehow managed to stuff linux into. i won't pretend like i know the first thing about all of this, because i don't. i just grew up with a dad who is a life long software engineer and self-proclaimed nerd, and continues to teach me a lot.
using this old machine reminds me to slow down. i haven't upgraded the memory or the original hd yet, so it physically can't do that much all at once. i pretty much limit myself to working on one thing at a time, and you know what, there's really nothing wrong with that.
i think i got so used to having a super fast new computer that can handle having 20 apps open at once, playing music in one, an editing project open in another, and three web browsers with 15 tabs going in each, that i failed to realize my own head can't compute all of that information at once. lately, when this computer starts overheating, and whatever i'm working on crashes, i take it as a personal cue to stand up, walk away, drink water, and feel some sun on my skin. i come back and open up what i was working on again later.
over the past few months, i've found that this friction that is caused by using an "obsolete" computer, or not having any of the big social media accounts, or not having banking on my phone, actually has helped me to become a little more organized in my life. i have to actively think of what i need to do and where something needs to be before i even leave the door in the morning, carrying with me my reading material, some water, my planner, and most importantly, putting my phone in my bag (not pocket). that's a big deciding factor to how my day will go. is my phone in my pocket, or is it in my bag?