2022 Weekly Musings #1
Coolest Things I learned this week
10 Things To Do Instead of Scrolling Through Your Smartphone
I read this article with some practical tips which may help me lead a life I want. I have suffered from anxiety of falling behind others and picking up many skills in a short time. Although I always feel that time is insufficient, in my deep heart, I know the truth is I spend too much time on other useless things, and mostly on phone scrolling. I have been trying many ways to stop myself from those low quality leisure activities as the author said, such as limited screen time on those social media apps for an hour, paying attention to daily and weekly screen time. However, the latest weekly screen time report showed me I spent about 3 hour on my phone.
In his article, there are three things I want to do whenever I feel tempted to pick up my phone. The first thing is Reading.
If you read 15 pages per day, you’d finish roughly 27 books per year (as the average non-fiction book is about 200 pages).
I have a long, long book list, yet sadly and disappointedly, none of them were read over. The other two are Learning New Skills and Do Something Creative. Photography is the first thing that pop in my head. I have been interested in photography since I was in college. Besides, I have not yet successfully made a loaf of sourdough bread. Not until whenever a new baking process began, I watched online tutorial clips on YouTube, which is just like cramming for a test (facepalm…).
Get Organized (make a plan for a month/for the next day) !!! Yesterday, a post on ins knocked my head deeply. It said, to deal with Unemployment Anxiety, one way is to make prioritization. I have found myself in a situation where I extremely greedily try to get everything since at college. A master’s degree, a decent job and salary, those many and many dreams and wishes make the present situation where I fail to achieve one of above and fall into depression frequently. Not until did I read that post, I realized I have never prioritize those dreams and then I can organize each day to get closer to the life I want.
Write In a Journal. The psychiatrist last time suggested my keep a “Praise Journal” to help me focus on what I have done well so as to be more positive and confident than what I thought I was. Since the Dragon boat festival, I have not kept this journal. I have found myself being more emotional as before ever since. Every day I told myself I was just too tired to do it as planned. Can’t I really squeeze a 15-minute for this? ( I am certain that the time I spend on searching fine restaurants/food every day is many times more than 15 minutes!)
Movie of this week
- Gangubai Kathiawadi
Enjoyable Moments
- Eat Earl Grey flavor Souffle Pudding.
