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I’ve started keeping “seasonal lists” of all the things I want to do, eat, watch, accomplish each quarter. It’s gotten me through fall, winter, and part of spring (so far), keeping me honest with my time. I break it down by a few categories:
To do
To eat
To watch
To read
Movement + body (exercise goals)
Big moves (seasonal life goals)
If you’re feeling a little aimless or scattered around how you spend your time and need a touch of motivation, try this! I love looking at it throughout the season and being happy with all I’ve managed to do, eat, see, cook, read.
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Apr 18, 2025
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- top 5 songs of each month!
- quote log.. so many words of wisdom shared on this platform i need to collect them all
- affirmations! or alternatively, ins and outs for the new year!
- social bucket list for 2025... super big on hanging out with my friends so really just a list of things i want to do with my friends - probably will divide the list by season
- on that note, seasonal to-do lists!
- cravings.. i've kept a list of my cravings this past year and it's been really interesting to look back on LOL
- worries of the week/month. i've maintained this list for a while, and it's rly comforting to look back on it and realize that i overcame all those worries + it's a grounding reminder that everything really does work out
Dec 23, 2024
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I made one for summer (kayak, eat corn!) and forgot to make one for fall+winter. Gonna do a spring bucket list (planting, marshy hikes b4 it gets ticky). Doesn’t have to be on theme even but it’s a nice way to engage in the fleeting seasons
Mar 6, 2024
So this a little habit I randomly started doing about 2 years ago now, and I never seem to get sick of it because when I’m ever in doubt about my productivity; it’s there to remind me that hey even the little things matter …
I am quite a messy person when it comes to planning, don’t get me wrong, I’m great with being on time and whatnot … I just have a hard time planning things too far ahead, and if you’re anything like this; I urge you to try this as a little fun exercise/experiment!
Heres how it works;
The night before a day, especially before a day when you know you’ll have a few things to do like errands and whatnot, start making a checklist on your notes app of all the things you need to accomplish, they can be as little as having a coffee in the morning to signing a lease for your new house, all that matters is that you write every single (realistic of course) thing you want to accomplish in the day.
It is also important that the things you’re including are things youre supposed to do in a sense, like doing your laundry for example… I say that in comparison to things like “I want to get better at golf” for example, where that goal is more of an aspiration than a task if that makes sense.
while making the list, try imagining how your day will go, that helps with planning the more rigorous parts, and with that you might remember things you forgot you’re supposed to do, or have been putting off.
The next step of course is to have a good night sleep to then wake up and seize the day! Now your goal is to check off every task on the list, sometimes the timeline messes up so we finish some tasks before the other and that is fine as long as we go back to a task we’ve missed, it can help sometimes to add the time you need to start/finish a task if it’s more of a time sensitive task.
You can check off the list as you finish your tasks, or you can check it off the way I like to do it, where you check off everything at once in your bed at night which feels more dramatic and accomplished in a way… but obviously if you want to do that, then you’d still have to check your list throughout the day just to make sure you’re not forgetting anything, otherwise that check-off-in-bed ceremony is a little disappointing.
So yeah! There you have it ! You did it… kinda … this exercise if you haven’t noticed already, is all about celebrating little accomplishments even if they were huge, the goal is to remind ourselves that we do more in a day sometimes than we give our self credit for. Taking the trash out, sending that email, trying that coffee shop, hanging up that painting you bought months ago, finally reading more than just 5 pages from a book that’s been in your Goodreads “currently reading” that’s been there for longer than you’d like to admit, or even just having lunch … a task too vital to celebrate, they all amount to something!
(The list I have attached to this is a screenshot of a list I made for a Wednesday when I was on holiday - so it was a rather uneventful Wednesda, they usually tend to be longer but I couldn’t find any , because I tend to delete them once I’m done with a list)
Feb 10, 2025
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i canceled my Spotify account over the summer and have spent the last few months rebuilding my digital music library on a refurbished iPod Touch. reading critiques of the app (and it’s enshittification), i realized i wasn’t even sure of my own musical tastes and preferences. i had stopped picking for myself, stopped seeking out new music, ceasing to know how to choose what i wanted or articulate what i like.
breaking free from the algorithm has been such a joy! i’m borrowing gobs of music from the library, rebuilding my old playlists, and consuming more music than i have in years. and better yet, my data isn’t being tracked by Spotify and i own what’s in my personal library. further, my receptors are more open when i’m out in the world exposed to music, searching for recommendations in an organic way.
Jan 16, 2025
i’ve been trying to articulate why i enjoy this space so much. yes, the UX is reminiscent of Tumblr and the early days of the internet. and there’s genuine sincerity and vulnerability on here that makes it feel really cozy and real, which i haven’t felt online in at least a decade.
but i think what’s undergirding my love of this space is how anti-capitalist it feels. most of the recs everyone shares are vibe-checks, quality of life shifts, meditations and offers, music and movies, just plain good art. i don’t feel compelled to buy anything when i come here. i feel excited and pumped to be a cheerleader, find connection, find common ground. and FWIW the recs i’ve shared that have gotten the most traction are my suggestions for leading a less capitalistic / consumerist life (quitting Amazon, getting off of Spotify, building community to take care of you and your things).
all of this is to say, i love it here and i love you guys.
Feb 7, 2025
hear me out—this one might feel impossible, but i quit purchasing items on Amazon in 2018 and cancelled my GoodReads account shortly after.
i did some serious reflection and realized i’d become super reliant upon, and frankly, quite used to the instant gratification of purchasing something and knowing i’d have it within a day. that’s not normal. the labor practices, economics, and environmental impacts of getting what you want from the internet delivered quickly and right to your door are skewed. i was filling a void in myself with mindless purchases.
i’m aware that they service a huge swath of the internet (Amazon Web Services), own Whole Foods and Abe Books, and will likely take over more businesses we like and rely on. weaning off and avoiding entirely is very very hard, but it can also be a measured decision. that said, i know that it is a privilege to abstain from Amazon. i am able bodied, i don’t have kids, i have access to a car, i live in an urban environment with access to a lot of stuff at my fingertips. but making the choice to break out of the Amazon loop has ultimately been better for my pocketbook and better for my relationship to these mega-tech-companies that have their fingers in everything.
in contrast, i’m becoming more interested in alternate economies, like bartering and sharing. i love the idea of having commonly shared tools and items (tool libraries are very cool). we don’t need to own it all, we have each other.
interested in exploring more? the zine pictured below is a great start, and summarizes a much larger book by the same author on how to resist the leviathan that is Amazon.
Jan 22, 2025