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  • picopause [xxix]

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    A “picopause” is a little loving nudge towards simplicity and serenity.

    Oh, right, I don't care.

    When you are reading an article, listening to a podcast, or watching a video, think to yourself whether you actually care about the topic. If you don’t actually care, or you don’t need the information for any particular reason, stop engaging with the content.

    I get sucked into consuming so much content that is fed to me through algorithms, or that I actually sign up to receive in newsletters. But 95% of what I get served is no more than moderately interesting, and usually not actually useful or relevant. It’s just “more content”. It’s like being at a restaurant and being served more and more food. It may all taste good, or good enough, but do I really need to consume all of it just because it is being served to me?

  • picopause [xxviii]

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    A “picopause” is a little loving nudge towards simplicity and serenity.

    Is this a blip or a glitch?

    When I am trying to get things done, any little thing might derail me, especially if the task is tiring, complex, or not something I want to be doing. When something stops me from making progress, I need to get out of my own head for a minute and try to figure out if I am dealing with a blip or a glitch.

    A blip is something that could potentially be ignored so that I can keep moving forward.

    A glitch is something that is actually preventing me from moving forward.

    Which one is it?

    I think I tend to mix these up and let blips stop me when I should just be ignoring them.

    *It has been so long since I have posted a picopause article, I forgot how to do it.

  • picopause [xxvii]

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    A “picopause” is a little loving nudge towards simplicity and serenity.

    Yesterday, I suggested a way to make decisions easier when two (or more) people disagree. Today’s picopause is about making decisions easier for ourselves.

    Looking for the “still calm voice” means taking some quiet time to give your mind a chance to wander. By making a practice of sitting — literally just sitting and doing nothing else — for several minutes at least once a day, you can start to develop the ability to hear the “still calm voice”, and that voice will give you the strength/direction/insight that you need.

    In other words, people usually already know the right answer. They just need to be quiet for long enough to hear it.

    *This might sound pretty “woo-woo”. Okay, it definitely sounds woo-woo. I’ll give you that. But it actually does work. If you are at all skeptical, I urge you not to fall into the easy trap of “contempt prior to investigation”.

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