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How to Tell Your Inner Critic to STFU
The Portal: Issue 045
Internet People
August 23, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes
WELCOME TO THE PORTAL: a weekly dose of refreshing productivity strategies and unconventional ideas to help you finally feel in control of your time.
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💭 ONE THING WE’RE THINKING ABOUT
ANY PERFECTIONISTS IN THE ROOM RN? 👀
When your mind is clouded by perfectionism, it’s nearly impossible to do your best thinking, creating, or problem solving. Despite this, we continue to tell ourselves that our perfectionism is just about striving for excellence, all the while it’s sending us into a freeze response that ensures we’ll never finish the thing. Perfection is the mirage in the desert, the oasis that doesn’t exist.
But what if some of the most effective ways to overcome your perfectionism are hiding in plain sight, camouflaged as ordinary things you always say you don’t have time for?
On the blog this week, we dive into 5 ways to override your perfectionism with ordinary, regular schmegular activites (that you’ll actually enjoy) 😏
🎧 ONE THING WE’RE LISTENING TO
TEN PERCENT HAPPIER PODCAST:
The Science of Joy, Why You Need It, and How to Get It (63 min)
Hear an industrial designer deep dive on how we can find and interact with more joy on a regular basis. It shifted the way we thought about color, shape, objects, and introduced us to a fun perspective-shifting idea called “Joy-Spotting”
👀 ONE THING WE’RE OBSESSED WITH
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🤔 ONE QUESTION FOR YOU
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⭐️ ONE LAST THING
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