HeyJaredIt's Got Pockets
Musings from a midlifer; from the juggle, the struggle, the very messy middle and the journey to getting unstuck and pressing play.
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Have we forgotten that thinking is the work? (opens the original)
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I am a big fan of window gazing. A little gander out of the window whilst simply letting your thoughts collide, process and do their thing. Even better if it involves watching rain drops run their rhythm down the window, joining different rain rivers; pootling along their own pathway.Proper window gazing is a thing. The sort where, to anybody passing, it looks like absolutely nothing productive is happening.No laptop open. No phone in hand. No notes being taken. No evidence whatsoever that I am
Someone else probably knows better than me - Do they though? Do they? (opens the original)
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From My Inbox to YoursI can be spectacularly good at asking other people what they think about something I already know the answer to. Because, you know, someone else probably knows better than me - Do they though? Do they?I’ll talk it through.Then talk it through with somebody else. The the shitty committee will have a little gathering in my brain at 3am to discuss it.Then perhaps mention it to the husband - well, to be fair, I mainly debate it on my girls group.Then somebody who knows the b
When beautiful storage jars are life (opens the original)
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From My Inbox to YoursI have been labelling pasta. Actual pasta. Different types of pasta. And rice for that matter.I’ve had a LOT of tabs open in my head recently and apparently one of the things my brain decided would help was ordering some beautiful storage jars and decanting all the pasta and rice into them.And do you know what? It did help. There was something enormously satisfying about a cupboard looking slightly less chaotic when my brain felt anything but - by doing some organising
Sorry, I’ve been so quiet (opens the original)
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“Sorry I’ve been so quiet.”What if the moment you most need your scaffolding is also the moment you become least likely to use it? The retreat into the quiet is so familiar for so many of us navigating the collision of life, load, business, work and everything in between.When the load becomes too much, the fixer becomes even more functional, more focused. She narrows her world to meet the bandwidth she has left; the contracts, the deadlines, the must-have meetings, the family members and immedia
Sometimes the most useful resource isn't more time. It's another human (opens the original)
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Every Monday I write a Crack On Cue for my subscribers, looking at how we can crack on, on purpose. From My Inbox to YoursThere are some conversations where I start talking with approximately seventeen tabs open in my head.One thing is about work. One thing is about home. One thing is about something somebody said three days ago which I have apparently decided to keep alive and kicking for no useful reason whatsoever.Then there’s the decision I need to make, the thing I haven’t quite worked out
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