Making these next 6 months count!
Literally
"I don't want to scroll all day but have nothing to do with my time" starter pack
- Learn a parent language. 30 minutes on a language learning website a day, a pen and notebook are 20000× better than 10 seconds on insta.
- Run a blog. About literally anything. Bland as you may be you can not lack a passion.
- Learn programming & coding. This is the IT age, IT skills make up half of what are measured to be 'high value skills'
- Learn some dance skills (hopefully high intensity). Better than workouts
- Personal style and aesthetic study. The university of You Tube is more than happy to help
- Pick an online course on Leadership or Project Management online.
- OffScreen Hobbies eg knitting, skating, calligraphy, painting, you get the idea.
- Read a novel
- Cloud watching / car counting/ high focus easy tasks. Reset your dopamine receptors.
- watch a documentary (on health, finance, or business)
Christian Dior Haute couture Fall 2005
The Meeting - Andrew Hemingway , 1987.
British , b. 1955 -
Egg tempera on masonite, 98 x 151 cm.
I can’t wait for my life to expand…lately I feel like I am in some sort of middle earth incubation phase. Wrapped up in a cocoon. I think I am making the most of it but it would be even better (personally) if I posted on my Substack every week and did some sort of fitness challenge for myself. A splash of discipline is good even for a woman like me But I’m sick right now and so insanely weak and fatigued. I will drink green tea and recover. I can’t even watch a film without my attention running away from it
Time to myself
- Love is patient. Lust can't wait and is impulsive.
- Love is kind. Lust is cruel, critical, and manipulative.
- Love does not envy. Lust seeks more than it earns.
- Love does not boast. Lust serves self at the expense of others.
- Love is not proud. Lust is easily threatened.
- Love is not rude. Lust is disrespectful and thoughtless.
- Love is not self-seeking. Lust is demanding and uncaring.
- Love is not easily angered. Lust is temperamental and retaliatory.
- Love keeps no records of wrongs. Lust does not forget offenses.
- Love does not delight in evil. Lust commits wrong to get its own way and rationalizes it.
- Love rejoices in the truth. Lust encourages lies and covers up misdeeds.
- Love always protects. Lust takes for selfish gain and lacks concern for consequences to others.
- Love always trusts. Lust is suspicious and jealous.
- Love always hopes. Lust says one chance and you're out.
- Love always perseveres. Lust retreats when it is no longer convenient.
- Love never fails (it is constant, enduring, and faithful to the end). Lust ends when self is no longer served (it is fickle, insecure, and unfaithful).
Anna Trochim — Hot Summer (oil on canvas, 2020)