rachsmith-com-8l0g9q.txt (3297B)
1 [1]Rach Smith [2] 2 Rach Smith'sdigitalgarden 3 4 • [3]Notes 5 • [4]Tags 6 • [5]About 7 • [6]Subscribe image/svg+xml 8 9 • rainbows[7][ ] 10 • cursor trails[8][ ] 11 • dark mode[9][ ] 12 13 It's okay to lower the bar 14 15 Added: August 13, 2024 16 17 • [10]#journaling 18 19 I had a journal entry in my [11]Hobonichi Techo Cousin for every day this year 20 until July, where I have a string of blank pages. 21 22 I was doing so well, and I was really in to the swing of journaling every day… 23 until I wasn’t. 24 25 The cause? Doing a little too well at journaling, actually. I got inspired by 26 the fancy spreads of other Hobonichi enthusiasts on Instagram, and started 27 making my own pretty layouts. My pages were looking beautiful until things got 28 busy and my mental health/energy [12]took a dive. 29 30 I’d raised the bar for my daily entries, and didn’t have the energy to meet it. 31 But instead of just lowering the bar and going back to boring/ugly entries, 32 perfectionist thinking kicked in. If I couldn’t make it good, why do it at all? 33 34 So I missed a couple of days, at which point the all-or-nothing thinking 35 started up. I’ve broken my journaling streak, why even continue? I’ve basically 36 ruined my Hobonichi now, for the rest of 2024! 37 38 Thankfully, I was eventually able to shake myself out of those thoughts and 39 come back to just getting something, anything on the page at the end of the 40 day. But there was a while there were I really thought I may as well put the 41 journal in the bin. 42 43 I had to remind myself that it’s okay to lower the bar. That an average version 44 of something is better than a perfect version of nothing. All I can do is have 45 a go. 46 47 Thanks for reading! If you'd like to share your thoughts you can [13]leave a 48 comment, [14]send me an email, hit me up [15]on Mastodon, or [16]add an issue 49 on GitHub. 50 51 Comments 52 53 Leave a Comment 54 55 💯 Thanks for submitting your comment! It will appear here after it has been 56 approved. 57 58 Comment (You can use [19]Markdown syntax if you wish) [ ] 59 60 Name[21][ ] 61 62 Website[22][ ] 63 64 URL[23][ ] 65 66 Submit 67 68 Acknowledgement of Country 69 70 I acknowledge the [25]Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Owners of the land 71 and waterways where I live. I would like to pay my respects to Elders past, 72 present and emerging. 73 74 • [26] codepen.io/rachsmith 75 • [27]github.com/rachsmithcodes 76 • [28] mastodon.social/@rachsmith 77 • [29][email protected] 78 79 © 2024 Rachel Smith 80 81 References: 82 83 [1] https://rachsmith.com/ 84 [2] https://rachsmith.com/ 85 [3] https://rachsmith.com/ 86 [4] https://rachsmith.com/tags/ 87 [5] https://rachsmith.com/about/ 88 [6] https://rachsmith.com/feed.xml 89 [10] https://rachsmith.com/tags/#journaling 90 [11] https://rachsmith.com/hobonichi-techo-cousin/ 91 [12] https://rachsmith.com/mnnm-7/ 92 [13] https://rachsmith.com/lower-the-bar/#comments 93 [14] mailto:[email protected]?subject=re%3A%20It's%20okay%20to%20lower%20the%20bar 94 [15] https://mastodon.social/@rachsmith 95 [16] https://github.com/rachsmithcodes/rachsmith.com/issues 96 [19] https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/ 97 [25] https://gubbigubbidyungungoo.com/gubbi-gubbi-country/ 98 [26] https://codepen.io/rachsmith 99 [27] https://github.com/rachsmithcodes 100 [28] https://mastodon.social/@rachsmith 101 [29] mailto:[email protected]