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Late-night journal notes on streaks, freedom, and allowing diligence

10 tweets · August 2022 · 7 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter

[this thread basically unedited notes to self; sharing with permission] okay fuck it's @ 24:37. I came back intending to do a complice thread, and apparently what I wanted to do on net was to fuck around on twitter, mostly and that's in some sense profoundly okay

but yeah, in that tunnel I lost a couple hours and I lost touch with the sense in which I could just close out my twitter-profile browser window and get it back later

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

I'm doing a new workflow experiment where I can't view tweets in my main browser profile (can tweet, message, & search (for now; we'll see)) then I have a separate one that can get tab explosions & then when I want to focus I'll just close it (blocked using existing userstyles)

I went and looked at potential threads to write, and bounced off it, because I didn't want to write a long thread hell, iirc I don't feel like I wanted to write a thread at all, I wanted to work more on my synergy or nonprofit plan writing

fuck, and instead I did neither okay, not really digging the streaky vibe on this [I tweeted this at about this point in the journalling 👇]

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

I spent a couple hours in limbo tonight because I was like "I've gotta do a thread" then I didn't actually want to spend the time. so I'm gonna kinda relax the "every (other) day" thing here. still intending to consider writing a thread every day, but lots of space to choose not

I kinda do want to hit a streak on doing *something* towards growth each day, til the end of bali but in the day I want to feel a lot more freedom to do WHAT MAKES SENSE, GIVEN EVERYTHING youtube.com/watch?v=lm2kv_…

and sometimes I might intentionally scope down, like "what makes sense, given that I want to focus on complice growth rn?" but that's different from a cached plan

this is a deliberately weird way of working yesterday what got the GCI vid out was that I had it on my list!

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

one side-benefit of how intentions for Complice are clearly delineated by day and you have to make a fresh list each day... ...is that I get motivated to do things before bed from the pleasure of not having to put them on my list again 😆

so that is sometimes the right way to do things or at least sometimes it works but I'm practicing a new way of being, here and that matters to me to not just push through, but be sensitively iterating

I'm practicing allowing excellence, allowing diligence. one moment at a time taking the time to listen to all of my perspectives

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

I am coming to the conclusion that everything I was trying to get myself to do is better approached by exploring how to allow myself to do it 😤✋❌ how do I get myself to do the thing? 😎👉✅ how do I allow myself to do the thing?

fuck yeah, tweeting this was exactly what I wanted to do right now, damn. and it drew out the Allowing thread quoted above exaptation mindset! youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_kr…