Social Media - part 6 The big news today is that Elon Musk has bought Twitter. My first thought was this is probably a good time to cancel my account. I'm not much of an Elon fan given some of what I've read and some of his comments on SM. He is apparently a big advocate of free speech - but personally I think the concept of free speec...

Social media - part 5 I think we are all well aware of the myriad of negative impacts of social media on our lives. Yes there are many benefits too - but how do we create the right balance of getting the benefits and minimising the negatives? I guess it could be similar to trying to change your diet. You can’t avoid eating (although so...

Social Media - part 4 I don’t come with any thoughts on how to move away from social media today - instead I’m sharing an experience and observation I’ve just had. It highlights another negative aspect of SM besides the negativity and dehumanisation I’ve mentioned in previous posts. This is about the zombie like mental state social med...

Short and sweet Today’s post is a little outta sync with my previous ones - mostly because I’m just enjoying the peacefulness and sunshine of this lovely Saturday - so I’m giving my brain a break from thinking about the worries of the world and social media - after all rest is just as important if not more so than work, so I’m giving m...

Social Media - part 3 Yesterday I shared my concern that social media has had an overall negative impact on us as a society / culture. Particularly as it seems disrespectful and divisive online communication seems to be the norm and acceptable. We don't seem to be willing or able to understand different perspectives - we are more incli...

Social media - part 2 Yesterday I mentioned some of the benefits of social media. There are lots! But I feel we’ve passed a tipping point where the costs are far higher than the benefits. My biggest fear is that as a society we now seem to accept a lot of negative behaviour that we either wouldn’t have in the past or we wouldn’t have b...

Social media - part 1 I think social media has become one of the most destructive things in our world today. I really fear for our future if we can't work out how to do social media differently - in a more human way. In its early days social media was great. It connected you to old friends who you otherwise wouldn't have. It helped kee...

I think I'm finally on a bit of a role with posting everyday. I still have my daily reminder on my phone - but I'm starting to think about it more consciously now as something I need to do each day - rather than it being something floating around in my mind that I should get to but then forgetting to do it. I've just spent about 15 min...

Self-awareness Just read this article written by Mark Manson. He sums up a few things I spoke of yesterday about noticing and self awareness. He articulates it well. Great food for thought and one to bookmark and come back to later Something else I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how do we hold ourselves to a better standard in ...

Self-judgement As I read yesterday’s post, the main things that went through my mind was how I could have written it better. There was a lot of negative self-judgement / self-talk. It’s interesting that I go straight to what was wrong, rather than what was good and the fact that I actually posted something which is my goal in this chal...

Today I’m reminded of the importance of rest for psychological and physical health. It is day 3 of a 6 day break for me and I am relishing in the rest and the opportunity to do nothing and enjoying both the mental and physical break. I often feel guilty doing nothing - we are almost conditioned today that if we’re not doing “something”...

I can’t believe I forgot to post again yesterday. This challenge can’t be about me only posting about forgetting to post. I’m putting a reminder in my phone now. It’s school holidays and the Easter long weekend so I have no routine, making it a little harder to establish a habit trigger. My phone is going to have to be it for now. 63 w...

We’ll I’m not off to a very good start. I forgot to post yesterday. I did think about it several times during the day but got distracted. Next thing you know it’s 3am and I’m half asleep after taking our puppy out for a wee and realised I didn’t post - damn. So I’ve kinda failed at my challenge already. But instead of giving up I’m jus...

I've promised myself for a long time now that I will write a blog more frequently i.e. more than 2-3 times a year - however, despite it technically being ridiculously easy - thanks mostly to having a Hey account (read about Hey here) - I still haven't fulfilled this commitment to myself. There are lots of reasons why - but mostly it's ...

Yesterday I signed up to James Clear's 30 Days to Better Habits free email course. I have a history of following James and his work. I've read his blog regularly after I discovered it about 4+ years ago, I listened to Atomic Habits via audiobook when it was first released, followed up by purchasing the Kindle version soon after and sig...

Email makes the world go round....doesn't it? Yes it might, but at what cost and in what direction is it spinning? Sometimes it feels like it's going backwards when it comes to email and it's impact on our productivity and getting important stuff - stuff that adds value - stuff that makes a difference....done. I don't know about you, b...

I love that Hey have introduced Hey World - I have spent countless hours trying to set up a blog in the past and is probably half the reason I wasn't successful at kick starting a blog - it just felt like another thing to learn to take me away from the real work I wanted to be doing - whereas this seems almost too good to be true. OK s...