Intentionality
“Intentionality…is about the connection between what you’re doing and why you’re doing it.” - Malcom Ocean
Stuart Evans and
Intentionality
what if the apps you used helped you keep control over your attention and more intentionally use your time. how many times have we opened twitter/instagram/etc with an intention only to forget about it 15mins later, still sucked down the rabbit hole? sublime is an idea baby, but if we succeed, it's because we helped you live more intentionally.
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
Been listening to more of Rob Burbea and appreciate his emphasis on how clarifying your specific + personal desire to meditate is often completely missed — and how it impacts the way that the practice will unfold.
Seems like this could also be extrapolated to many other areas of life... where nuances in your motivation... See more
Jonny Millerx.comnuances in your motivation will impact the landscape of possible outcomes
The Notebook Rule
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been fault-testing something I’m going to call The Notebook Rule.
It goes like this:
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been fault-testing something I’m going to call The Notebook Rule.
It goes like this:
Before any interaction with a screen, I write down, in a notebook, what I intend to do. Then, as soon as I’m done doing that thing, I walk away (close the laptop, put the phone down, literally walk away, etc).
J.E. Petersen • The Notebook Rule
intention> attention
If you don’t have a good handle on what you want, or even worse, you don’t actually consult it, you could make decisions which are not really in your interests.
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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
― Simone Weil
― Simone Weil