The Power of Simple Things

[@mandycollins8795]

Well said! As a person who has struggled with diet and exercise regimens, productivity habits, and just about every executive functioning tip or trick out there, what I've found to work the best (for me) is to add doable changes a little at a time. Sometimes trying to overhaul one's life becomes too difficult and unsustainable for long periods of time. There are a few healthy-diet influencers on social media that have encouraged the mindset of "instead of cutting everything out, start adding healthy options in." For example, instead of cutting all the carbs, increase fiber and protein so your body can still get the nutrition it needs without feeling deprived. Eventually, cutting back will become easier. The same goes for creative endeavors. Adding time into your schedule to work on your goals doesn't need to take over your life. If it did, you might come to dread and even resent it.

[@AuthorDodgeMerrin]

All excellent points which make a good addition to what I said in the video, but your last sentence in particular makes me think of a cautionary tale that should have been in the video. Burnout is a very real thing of which we need to be aware, and do our best to avoid. I experienced it many times before realizing that working myself that hard meant getting less done, not more.

[@UliTroyo]

This happened to me with the series Riyria Revelations by Michael J. Sullivan. I adore those books, but someone dismissed it as "popcorn fantasy". I felt like... no way we read the same books. Likewise, people fall asleep to my favorite series, the slow-paced Mushi-Shi. It's well-reviewed, but it appeals to specific kinds of people. When the similarly-slow recent anime Frieren came out, I was not surprised to see many people couldn't sit through the first few episodes for the same reasons as Mushi-shi. Probably the same thing can be said about David Lynch-he's almost universally revered, but only Twin Peaks fans like his movie Fire Walk With Me.

[@AuthorDodgeMerrin]

One can't help but wonder how much has gone unseen because people were too quick to dismiss it.