Visualizing your gold
Oh, hi friends!
Chloe Kim nabbed an Olympic gold in the snowboard halfpipe last night. Watching this 17-year-old was inspiring, but it was what she did before launching into her run that caught my attention.
She was practicing. Visualizing. Jumping (sans board) and going through her entire routine while on solid ground. She went through it, knew she could do it, then did it.
When I visualize my own days—from writing to meetings to commuting and so on—they always seem to go well. Even if they don’t go entirely according to plan, at least I know what should be happening.
Take two minutes to visualize the rest of your day. And if that works, don’t stop.
Visualize the rest of your week, month, year.
How far can you go?
"Another day, I went to the historically black neighborhood of Tremé and came upon Marion Colbert sitting on a bench by her door. Known as Miss Mary, she turns 90 in July and told me that every year the neighborhood throws her a birthday party in the street. 'I can’t walk like I did no more. I got diabetes, arthritis and glaucoma, but I’m happy,' she said. 'I can still see and talk to people. I don’t need millions.' Every once in a while, she would call out, 'You have a nice day, honey,' to whomever happened to be passing by.
'Thank you, have a beautiful day,' one woman replied.
'Oh, it is,' Ms. Colbert replied."
I like my travel narratives with plenty of human interaction and really enjoyed the first dispatch from New Orleans by Jada Yuan, who beat out 13,000 other job applicants to travel to the New York Times’ 52 Places this year.
Make Your Browser Work for You
I want to try out all of these must-have Chrome extensions recommended by WIRED, especially HabitLab, which records how much time you spend on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube—apparently to scare you into spending less time there. And there’s Reader View, which strips away all the garbage around a cluttered webpage for a smooth reading experience. (h/t Jane Frye for the story)
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara