Have you ever found yourself staring at your screen wondering what you have been doing for the past 2 minutes? Well, I must admit this happens to me pretty often. To fight that, having a routine to disengage your brain can be very helpful. Go make a tea or a coffee, walk to your window, stretch your body or go straight outside for a walk, but most importantly leave screens away. Surprisingly, ideas, solutions or inspiration tend to hit when we engage in « offline » activities.
I love how constraints or barriers can help us build things we would never have thought of. Recent stop motion videos from animator Siqi Song is a perfect example. In an inspiring interview for It’s Nice That, Siqi describes the technical and creative challenges she faced making such a unique piece of artwork. Made for Mailchimp Series, the 2min videos present the ups, downs and sometimes-painful truths of entrepreneurial life. True, touching and positive messages in a beautiful staging. A must watch!
« I am not especially talented at friend-making [...] and I possess correspondingly underdeveloped small-talk skills. ». Such a hard truth about myself too. I never thought about making friends when I was at school because things kind of happen naturally. However, as David Cain states it, adulthood relationships need to become intentional. As I’m getting older, I feel like I need a good excuse to meet someone. Having just a 1:1 drink is freaking me out: 100% awkward. Okay then, let’s make up more excuses to meet up.
Tell me who you follow and I’ll tell you who you are. I agree with Alice, the content we consume everyday can influence us a lot. The content we scroll through is like the food we choose to eat everyday: find balance, stay « healthy »!
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1. Disengage your brain
Have you ever found yourself staring at your screen wondering what you have been doing for the past 2 minutes? Well, I must admit this happens to me pretty often. To fight that, having a routine to disengage your brain can be very helpful. Go make a tea or a coffee, walk to your window, stretch your body or go straight outside for a walk, but most importantly leave screens away. Surprisingly, ideas, solutions or inspiration tend to hit when we engage in « offline » activities.