Zac, as someone who is aspiring to become a writer and create a following on the topic of Wellness at home, I'm inspired by what you have accomplished here and I'd like to follow your footsteps.
Here are some of the things:
1.What’s something fantastic that’s happened in your life, that was coincidental, or out of your control?
Encountering a life threatening situation. Recovering from it taught me many things.
2.How do you approach big life planning? Do you think setting 5 year goals makes sense?
I've never done 5 year goals. Have been more of the second example flowing with the river. But in this season of my life I am playing more of the steward. I realize that the key to being able to do that is having control over one's attention.
3.Share something you’ve been working on! I’d love to see some of your creative works. Feel free to drop a link.
I'm working on a newsletter concept called The Wellness Letters aimed at instilling a desire in people to embrace creating wellness within homes through intentionality.
Incredible that you consider a life threatening situation something fantastic that’s shaped your life. I think thats the definition of that last point of the article “Acceptance and Appreciation”.
“I realize that the key to being able to do that is having control over one's attention.“ —This is a great insight Jen, and something I think about often. Any tricks you use to take back some control of your attention?
Lastly, I’ve never considered a Facebook group as a method for newsletter distribution, but that’s brilliant. I’m going to dig into yours tonight!
Thank you Zac, for the encouraging message. I can't think of a better alternative than to accept what is, and to appreciate life. It's very well put in your article.
For attention honing, the most important thing is sensitizing oneself to the feeling of attention. If we think in terms of gradation, there are different attentional qualities that can be in and 'feel'.
When we are in focused and intense mode, that is a higher quality attention than say while we are asleep or when watching the 3rd movie of a movie marathon.
Focused mode has an intensity and engagement built into the attention.
Sleeping is allowing.
Watching movies is the interplay of being in suggestible states and being led the story (that's why we don't ask what ifs when we watch movies).
When I'm sensitized and know the feeling between low grade and high grade attention, I can take measures.
The game is more so of eliminating attention diluting and attention sucking portals. That then creates openness and one can choose what to do with it.
In one of my podcast episodes I explained of attention using the analogy of a jelly. It has substance and form, yet we can shape it.
In there I share a few things you can do with this 'jelly like substance'.
You can condense it, and that'll give you focus. You can flatten it and it'll widen. And small parts of jelly can be broken off.
All that to say, once we recognize it, we can see these things happening and we can also control it better.
Back to the tricks of regaining control... I found that entering a new more conducive environment does the magic among other things.
Well Zac, what a story. Key words that rang the bell for me: 5 year goals, life planning. I’ve thought about those for a moment, which overlaps with my startup.
Think like marketing: everyone can benefit from life planning but not everyone is aware or interested. Even the word therein: planning. Dry. So how can we drive people down the funnel to the benefits from life planning?
People need to have goals to then craft a plan. But they need to explore first to determine goals they should have. And most people don’t want to create a plan. Solution?…
A sprinkle of behavioral economics, a jolt of algorithms, a dash of design. Empower people to explore goals (and suggesting some) and automatically create a plan for them. One scenario of possibilities. Allow them to explore another scenario. And so on.
This is the area I play in. So, great to see the story you shared.
Zac, as someone who is aspiring to become a writer and create a following on the topic of Wellness at home, I'm inspired by what you have accomplished here and I'd like to follow your footsteps.
Here are some of the things:
1.What’s something fantastic that’s happened in your life, that was coincidental, or out of your control?
Encountering a life threatening situation. Recovering from it taught me many things.
2.How do you approach big life planning? Do you think setting 5 year goals makes sense?
I've never done 5 year goals. Have been more of the second example flowing with the river. But in this season of my life I am playing more of the steward. I realize that the key to being able to do that is having control over one's attention.
3.Share something you’ve been working on! I’d love to see some of your creative works. Feel free to drop a link.
I'm working on a newsletter concept called The Wellness Letters aimed at instilling a desire in people to embrace creating wellness within homes through intentionality.
www.Facebook.com/groups/thewellnessletters
Would love to hear what you think!
You’re so kind Jen. Thank you for reading.
Incredible that you consider a life threatening situation something fantastic that’s shaped your life. I think thats the definition of that last point of the article “Acceptance and Appreciation”.
“I realize that the key to being able to do that is having control over one's attention.“ —This is a great insight Jen, and something I think about often. Any tricks you use to take back some control of your attention?
Lastly, I’ve never considered a Facebook group as a method for newsletter distribution, but that’s brilliant. I’m going to dig into yours tonight!
Thank you Zac, for the encouraging message. I can't think of a better alternative than to accept what is, and to appreciate life. It's very well put in your article.
For attention honing, the most important thing is sensitizing oneself to the feeling of attention. If we think in terms of gradation, there are different attentional qualities that can be in and 'feel'.
When we are in focused and intense mode, that is a higher quality attention than say while we are asleep or when watching the 3rd movie of a movie marathon.
Focused mode has an intensity and engagement built into the attention.
Sleeping is allowing.
Watching movies is the interplay of being in suggestible states and being led the story (that's why we don't ask what ifs when we watch movies).
When I'm sensitized and know the feeling between low grade and high grade attention, I can take measures.
The game is more so of eliminating attention diluting and attention sucking portals. That then creates openness and one can choose what to do with it.
In one of my podcast episodes I explained of attention using the analogy of a jelly. It has substance and form, yet we can shape it.
In there I share a few things you can do with this 'jelly like substance'.
You can condense it, and that'll give you focus. You can flatten it and it'll widen. And small parts of jelly can be broken off.
All that to say, once we recognize it, we can see these things happening and we can also control it better.
Back to the tricks of regaining control... I found that entering a new more conducive environment does the magic among other things.
Thanks for checking out my Facebook group!
Well Zac, what a story. Key words that rang the bell for me: 5 year goals, life planning. I’ve thought about those for a moment, which overlaps with my startup.
Think like marketing: everyone can benefit from life planning but not everyone is aware or interested. Even the word therein: planning. Dry. So how can we drive people down the funnel to the benefits from life planning?
People need to have goals to then craft a plan. But they need to explore first to determine goals they should have. And most people don’t want to create a plan. Solution?…
A sprinkle of behavioral economics, a jolt of algorithms, a dash of design. Empower people to explore goals (and suggesting some) and automatically create a plan for them. One scenario of possibilities. Allow them to explore another scenario. And so on.
This is the area I play in. So, great to see the story you shared.
Thank you Ihsan!
It seems like you've thought quite a lot a bit about goal setting and planning. How are you thinking about empowering people to explore goals?
I’ll DM.