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+[7]Just One Good Thing
+
+Today’s culture seems to reward and celebrate the hustle. The neverending idea
+that one should always be productive, working, producing, shipping.
+
+At times, I’ve compared myself to peers, colleagues, and friends. Places like
+LinkedIn and other social media make me cringe: everyone performing in favor of
+being seen as someone with their shit together. Impostor syndrome strikes. On
+the other end, workingworkingworking results in burnout and feeling like
+nothing was accomplished anyway.
+
+This followed me for decades, but over the last decade I’ve begun to let go in
+many ways and focused on my immediate people and myself.
+
+This is not as easy to do as we’d like, as stress, obligations, and pressure
+reveal themselves in the form of externalities: things out of or beyond our
+control.
+
+In the last year, a mindset shift and approach appeared as a very simple idea:
+just do one thing, that I want to do today.
+
+The one thing can be small or big, easy or labored, fleeting or long. I carve
+out time to go play drums for two hours, go for a bouldering session, do a
+shorter 20 minute run, read a page of a book, eat something I’m really excited
+about, and more. Even on the most difficult day, I can adjust and find the
+smallest thing that I am excited about and do it.
+
+I needed some way to change my outlook. Developing a habit that is less about
+more and embracing the simple and ordinary has brought me a semblance of peace.
+It’s allowed for adaptability and resilience when the days go sideways and joy
+and delight on days that go smoothly.
+
+Just. One. Good. Thing.
+
+Jul 21 2025 ⋅ [8]personal
+
+Related
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+  • [9] Boy Meets Girl
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+    Oct 26 2004
+  • [10] Music That Got Me Through 2020
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+    Jan 31 2021
+  • [11] On Racism
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+    Mar 17 2021
+
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+Beyond Curiosity
+
+I write an occasional newsletter called Weightshifting. It was originally
+comprised of design, culture, and travel notes, morphed into [13]two seasons of
+overland travel, and has now returned to its original ideal of observations in
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+[10] https://nazhamid.com/journal/2020-music/
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