Today did not feel like a revelation. It felt like reading the manual for a machine I have not finished building. The persona exercise laid everything out—who I claim I want to be, what traits…
Today I started exploring what a fast-track strategy might look like for becoming more aware of my unconscious habits. As directed by the exercise, I started to break down four specific areas: character traits, habits,…
Today I’m becoming especially sensitive to the need to move quickly through this process and not take up a lot of time. But also, I want to do complete work because I’m noticing just how…
The insight is one thing. Integration is another. That’s what I’m noticing today as I reflect on how many insights I’ve already had in this process—and how few of them I’ve actually lived out in…
Today’s exercise felt uncannily like a 12-step inventory. As I reflect on the exercise, I didn’t mention how any of the behaviors directly impact my writing, and I suppose that’s because the instructions didn’t specifically…
Today, as in previous days, I used my spreadsheet journal to name the traits, habits, and internal voices that define who I’ve been—and who I could be. The contrast between the two was where the…
Today was the first time I didn’t manage to complete my exercise until much later in the day. As I write this blog entry, it is after 9:00 p.m. I’ve noticed this has been a…
It’s June 10th, 2025 and the apocalyptic event of the year has happened: ChatGPT went down! I’m forced to do today’s exercise using only my human brain, which I was reminded has some critical flaws…
You might ask yourself: what does a pixelated picture of a mini-Loch Ness Monster in the bathtub have to do with assumptions? If so, then your question was based on an assumption. (The answer: absolutely…
The first time I walked through Day Two, I wrote out pragmatic solutions for a lot of the obstacles I had written down. As has become my practice now, I ran all of my ideas…