🐧 EVERYDAY LIFE⚡ 17 SEC
If a change feels awkward, it is probably the right change 👕
Not Comfy
Actions that change you usually do not feel good.
Wrong Size
It is like a shirt that does not fit, or writing with your other hand.
Old Practice
This is because your whole life so far was practice for being "the you of now."
⚡ TRY IT
The feeling reader 🔮
Pick a new habit. Then tell me how it feels.
🚶 A walk before breakfast
📵 No phone in bed
🥦 Vegetables first at dinner
📖 10 minutes of English a day
How does it feel?
🔮Your reading will appear here.
🛡️Careful! Big excitement may be just armor. "This is it!" can be a way to not really change.
👕✅ Probably the right change! Awkward means it is starting to work, like a new shirt that does not fit yet.
🍌Try just a small piece. Often it is only like an overripe banana: a small "yuck."
Probably Right
So if it does not feel right, it is probably right.
📚 I learned this from Oliver Burkeman's newsletter. Read the original (English)
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