journal Monday warm up Hello Monday, silence, opportunity of time. Hello awareness, choice, sensing, passion without fixation. What wants to be heard, expressed, fulfilled? What is mine to do today? What role at all
journal remembering the greenhouse This is a meta post to bring me back into contact with this workflow, this writing editor, and activate the sense of muscle memory that comes from stepping back into
journal my phenomenology of free attention Hey self, what's on your mind? ... Nah, I don't want to keep up that rhetorical style. (Awkward start, but no deleting! Plow forward) Nor reify IFS parts either — it's not
journal just plain typing Sometimes I think about typing here, exploring something out in the open, and I shy away because of some concept of... wanting it to be high-quality, in case it might
journal feelings about fixing the computer This post hearkens back to my feelings about the dishwasher [https://www.bakejam.com/feelings-about-the-dishwasher/] over a year ago. Today I spent 6 to 7 hours of effort across 12
journal drafts in the icebox This is just to say I have deleted the drafts that were in the icebox and which probably had some good stuff that could have been written at one point
journal a soaring grounding Hello to myself, writing from the middle of an Intentional Society session. I've just sent the boats out to sea, and we happen to have no day-trippers around other than
journal consider blogging That's what my daily tasklist says currently - "consider blogging." Not to demand that I write, but to think about it in the context of setting my intentions for the
journal emotions as another brain I heard a child's reactions upstairs: noises that conveyed emotional states. Shock, distress, anger, grief, a few seconds each, one flowing into another. This seemed to resolve without any parental
journal commitments and agreements When someone asks you "to commit" to something, there are two interestingly different senses of the word to consider and disambiguate. The first is a synonym of "dedicate" - to
journal just waving hello Hello, I'm still around! When I'm not here, you see, I'm over there [https://www.intentionalsociety.org]. It's been a fun couple weeks. We've just about hit critical mass, I
journal talk and action I did some one-on-one calls on Sunday for Intentional Society [https://www.intentionalsociety.org], getting more familiar with folks and quizzing them about their hopes for personal/ultimate outcomes and
journal goal recrafting I started using Complice [https://complice.co] six months ago now. Coincidentally, that was right after I glimpsed down below "values" to formulate my deep goals [https://www.bakejam.com/
journal growth and commitments I'm rolling around a few thought nuggets shared by participants in yesterday's inaugural IS [https://www.intentionalsociety.org] info session. One is that personal development/growth is at the center.
journal ready to not know First, I notice it's been two weeks since I wrote here! I've been intentionally focusing on other things, but I didn't mean to stop entirely for this long. I notice
journal intentionalsociety.org is live https://www.intentionalsociety.org It's like starting to roll a boulder uphill. Potential energy starts to turn into distance traveled. Once you push off, you want to sustain the effort
journal how rare is good sensemaking? The pink arrow in the above picture (from here [https://www.electionbettingodds.com/President2020.html]) highlights the time (10:30 PM Pacific, 1:30 Eastern) I posted socially (for friends)
journal i am not bad "I am bad." I named it and felt into it last night with friends - the presupposition that had suffused my worldview for over three decades of my life inside
journal reflection on current goals This is for me. You're welcome to ride along. I have four current goal areas, all through a frame of being-ness in "my relationship to": 1. biggest self 2. nourishing
journal my first media appearance For the sake of posterity, I feel compelled to liberate this picture from the confines of LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rick-erickson-001_james-baker-and-i-interned-together-in-99-activity-6693281444250423296-RKgj/] and document what I haven't forgotten
journal awareness of the awareness process I've written a few times about my "filters" - having my guard up and processing my feelings and thoughts through a layer of mental perspective-taking before speaking. When the filters
journal parenting with acceptance These are my recent thoughts on moving away from shame-based parenting instruction. I'm in the process of wandering away from the language of judgement - objective(ly framed social) judgement
journal sensemaking trumpcovid It's almost 24 hours since the October surprise of the screenwriters of 2020 - Trump finally catches the virus. Six months ago I would have said "of course he's going
journal missing momentum Looking back on about three months of working for myself, I've been more aware and more intentional about what my desires are each day. I've become a fairly good estimator,
journal looking at my next step I have a current priority in my Complice [https://complice.co/] goals of "do enough interviews [https://www.bakejam.com/may-i-ask-you/] to learn something" by about now. This is my