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1 • [1] Naz Hamid 2 • [2]Journal 3 • [3]Links 4 • [4]About 5 • 6 7 [7]Just One Good Thing 8 9 Today’s culture seems to reward and celebrate the hustle. The neverending idea 10 that one should always be productive, working, producing, shipping. 11 12 At times, I’ve compared myself to peers, colleagues, and friends. Places like 13 LinkedIn and other social media make me cringe: everyone performing in favor of 14 being seen as someone with their shit together. Impostor syndrome strikes. On 15 the other end, workingworkingworking results in burnout and feeling like 16 nothing was accomplished anyway. 17 18 This followed me for decades, but over the last decade I’ve begun to let go in 19 many ways and focused on my immediate people and myself. 20 21 This is not as easy to do as we’d like, as stress, obligations, and pressure 22 reveal themselves in the form of externalities: things out of or beyond our 23 control. 24 25 In the last year, a mindset shift and approach appeared as a very simple idea: 26 just do one thing, that I want to do today. 27 28 The one thing can be small or big, easy or labored, fleeting or long. I carve 29 out time to go play drums for two hours, go for a bouldering session, do a 30 shorter 20 minute run, read a page of a book, eat something I’m really excited 31 about, and more. Even on the most difficult day, I can adjust and find the 32 smallest thing that I am excited about and do it. 33 34 I needed some way to change my outlook. Developing a habit that is less about 35 more and embracing the simple and ordinary has brought me a semblance of peace. 36 It’s allowed for adaptability and resilience when the days go sideways and joy 37 and delight on days that go smoothly. 38 39 Just. One. Good. Thing. 40 41 Jul 21 2025 ⋅ [8]personal 42 43 Related 44 45 • [9] Boy Meets Girl 46 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 47 Oct 26 2004 48 • [10] Music That Got Me Through 2020 49 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 50 Jan 31 2021 51 • [11] On Racism 52 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 53 Mar 17 2021 54 55 [12]Prev 56 Beyond Curiosity 57 58 I write an occasional newsletter called Weightshifting. It was originally 59 comprised of design, culture, and travel notes, morphed into [13]two seasons of 60 overland travel, and has now returned to its original ideal of observations in 61 the field. You can subscribe below. 62 63 Email address [14][ ] [15][Subscribe] 64 [logotype] 65 66 © 2000 - 2025 Naz Hamid. 67 68 Get some RSS feeds: [16]Journal or [17]Links. You can email me at my [18]first 69 name at this domain. I’m primarily on [19]Mastodon, occasionally feel forced to 70 pop into [20]LinkedIn because professional reasons (!?), and am increasingly 71 not logging movies on [21]Letterboxd. This site is [22]climate-friendly, and 72 last built at Jul 31, 2025, 9:10 PM PDT. 73 74 [23]Back to top 75 76 77 References: 78 79 [1] https://nazhamid.com/ 80 [2] https://nazhamid.com/journal 81 [3] https://nazhamid.com/links 82 [4] https://nazhamid.com/about 83 [7] https://nazhamid.com/journal/just-one-good-thing/ 84 [8] https://nazhamid.com/topic/personal/ 85 [9] https://nazhamid.com/journal/boy-meets-girl/ 86 [10] https://nazhamid.com/journal/2020-music/ 87 [11] https://nazhamid.com/journal/on-racism/ 88 [12] https://nazhamid.com/journal/beyond-curiosity/ 89 [13] https://nazhamid.com/newsletter 90 [16] https://nazhamid.com/feed.xml 91 [17] https://nazhamid.com/links.xml 92 [18] https://nazhamid.com/journal/just-one-good-thing/# 93 [19] https://mastodon.social/@nazhamid 94 [20] https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazhamid/ 95 [21] https://letterboxd.com/weightshift/ 96 [22] https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/nazhamid-com/ 97 [23] https://nazhamid.com/journal/just-one-good-thing/#top