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+[1]Rach Smith [2]
+Rach Smith'sdigitalgarden
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+It's okay to lower the bar
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+Added: August 13, 2024
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+  • [10]#journaling
+
+I had a journal entry in my [11]Hobonichi Techo Cousin for every day this year
+until July, where I have a string of blank pages.
+
+I was doing so well, and I was really in to the swing of journaling every day…
+until I wasn’t.
+
+The cause? Doing a little too well at journaling, actually. I got inspired by
+the fancy spreads of other Hobonichi enthusiasts on Instagram, and started
+making my own pretty layouts. My pages were looking beautiful until things got
+busy and my mental health/energy [12]took a dive.
+
+I’d raised the bar for my daily entries, and didn’t have the energy to meet it.
+But instead of just lowering the bar and going back to boring/ugly entries,
+perfectionist thinking kicked in. If I couldn’t make it good, why do it at all?
+
+So I missed a couple of days, at which point the all-or-nothing thinking
+started up. I’ve broken my journaling streak, why even continue? I’ve basically
+ruined my Hobonichi now, for the rest of 2024!
+
+Thankfully, I was eventually able to shake myself out of those thoughts and
+come back to just getting something, anything on the page at the end of the
+day. But there was a while there were I really thought I may as well put the
+journal in the bin.
+
+I had to remind myself that it’s okay to lower the bar. That an average version
+of something is better than a perfect version of nothing. All I can do is have
+a go.
+
+Thanks for reading! If you'd like to share your thoughts you can [13]leave a
+comment, [14]send me an email, hit me up [15]on Mastodon, or [16]add an issue
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+Acknowledgement of Country
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+I acknowledge the [25]Gubbi Gubbi people, the Traditional Owners of the land
+and waterways where I live. I would like to pay my respects to Elders past,
+present and emerging.
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+[1] https://rachsmith.com/
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+[3] https://rachsmith.com/
+[4] https://rachsmith.com/tags/
+[5] https://rachsmith.com/about/
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+[10] https://rachsmith.com/tags/#journaling
+[11] https://rachsmith.com/hobonichi-techo-cousin/
+[12] https://rachsmith.com/mnnm-7/
+[13] https://rachsmith.com/lower-the-bar/#comments
+[14] mailto:contact@rachsmith.com?subject=re%3A%20It's%20okay%20to%20lower%20the%20bar
+[15] https://mastodon.social/@rachsmith
+[16] https://github.com/rachsmithcodes/rachsmith.com/issues
+[19] https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
+[25] https://gubbigubbidyungungoo.com/gubbi-gubbi-country/
+[26] https://codepen.io/rachsmith
+[27] https://github.com/rachsmithcodes
+[28] https://mastodon.social/@rachsmith
+[29] mailto:contact@rachsmith.com