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