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New Year, New Journal That Will Fix You
The Portal: Issue 063
Internet People
January 03, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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Hello 2024!! 🥳 While we are not exactly resolutions people, we do like to pick one word to connect with throughout the year. What’s your word for 2024? Our is… at the end of this email :)
💭 ONE THING WE’RE THINKING ABOUT
New year, new… journal that will finally fix you!
Just kidding! Before your start inking up those pages this year, here’s something to think about:
Have you ever caught yourself writing your journal so that a stranger discovering it after your death could declare your brilliance and depth? ….No? Just us?
You’re trying to write perfectly coherent thoughts and sentences, because even in the private pages of your own personal book of thought and stories, you feel compelled to be perfect… and for whomst?? This could be the reason your journaling habit never stuck, or why it feels like a complete chore.
Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages have helped us a lot with thinking about how to be a little more unhinged and deranged and ~dare we say imperfect~ with getting our thought on to paper. We also wrote about this in 5 Ways to Start Anything.
One of our favorite creators Flex Mami got us thinking about this one after she put out some really familiar thoughts on using your journal to be more deranged.
👀 ONE THING WE’RE OBSESSED WITH
The Second Score
Receiving feedback can be really tricky, especially if the feedback is meant to be constructive or happens to be negative. Add a layer of RSD, and you could find yourself retreating under a weighted blanket with your emotional support water bottle for a few hours 😵💫
Tough feedback can send even the most DGAF, emotionally regulated person into fight or flight… but the “second score” can help you come back down to earth.
According to organizational psychologist Adam Grant, the initial piece of feedback we receive is the first score, and the second score “focuses on the way we take the feedback.”
Every time I get feedback, I rate myself on how well I took the feedback. That's a habit we can all develop. When someone gives you feedback, they've already evaluated you. So it helps to remind yourself that the main thing they're judging now is whether you're open or defensive.
Even though most of the time you are a flawless, perfect being, none of us is immune to negative feedback. After all — you’re simply doing your best. We need the reminder so frequently that we put it on a goddamn hoodie 😉
🎧 ONE THING WE’RE LISTENING TO
Did you know Spotify makes Zodiac playlists?
Since Capricorn season is in full swing, here are some songs for persistence and practicality (according to Spotify) based on the music you’re into.
🤔 ONE QUESTION FOR YOU
⭐️ ONE LAST THING
Did anyone peep our 🥁🥁🥁 COMPANY NAME CHANGE???? Shoutout to all of you who were with us from our Spacetime Monotasking days — we have some huge things planned for Spacetime Productivity this year!
PS: Our word of the year is DGAF (Don’t Give an F) — what’s yours?
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