Let’s all do something different today
One Tiny Little Tweak
Are you locked and loaded into your habits? What happens if you, say, turn off your phone before you get to work? Wear purple instead of the usual gray. Say hi to the coworker you always ignore. Take your coffee break outside. Text a long-lost aunt. Tie up your hair. Answer emails out of order—or not at all. Eat carbs. Run a different route. Walk home from work. Raining? Walk home in the rain. Maybe you'll be grateful you have a warm shower and towels when you get in the door.
Maybe a tiny new thing will delight you or make you uncomfortable. Maybe it will create a chain reaction of other tiny new things. What it won’t do is follow the same pattern you know all too well.
"For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive."
This is from a commencement speech by the novelist Ann Patchett, which became the book What Now?
Chips can look small. Pointless. Keep gathering them anyway.
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