YOU create action!
Amen to this, I connected. Hugs and Happy Mindful Eating! Debbie
"Social tools don't create collective action - they merely remove obstacles to it"
The purpose of this blog isn't to get you to do one particular thing or another. If that was the case, mindfulness wouldn't be any different than Weigh****chers -- a set of rules to follow -- eat this not that...always ... or you're bad and you fail!
My goal for this blog is to remove obstacles to mindfulness. For starters, by encouraging you to sign up for the email version of this update, and by setting the email delivery time at 7am, the email should be in your inbox when you arrive at work.
I don't know for sure but if you are like me, one of the first things you do to start your day is check your inbox to see what has blown up in the 12 hours since you left. So, if the email is there, there is a greater likelihood you will read it. If you take the time to read it, you have already made a time investment in our relationship and hopefully I will have said something in the post that gets you thinking about your own eating behaviors.
Maybe I hit just the right note with a post and it flashes to you at some point during the course of your day and you bring your attention to what you are about to eat -- and make some kind of conscious decision about it.
The blog didn't do any of this -- you did. All the blog did was make it a little easier to keep the idea of mindfulness a little closer to the front of your brain so it could pop up at just the right moment.
Blogs, logs, diets, even coaches .... they don't create action -- you do. They might remove obstacles but you create the action to get you where you want to be.
This blog won't create action....
Posted: 07 Sep 2010 03:41 AM PDT
I have been reading a book by Clay Shirky. I chose the book because it was recommended by blogger whose opinion I value and I have found it wonderfully insightful on the ideas of social media and new technologies. I am officially 158 pages into it and read the first thing I thought you all should here. Are you ready?? Here it is....."Social tools don't create collective action - they merely remove obstacles to it"
The purpose of this blog isn't to get you to do one particular thing or another. If that was the case, mindfulness wouldn't be any different than Weigh****chers -- a set of rules to follow -- eat this not that...always ... or you're bad and you fail!
My goal for this blog is to remove obstacles to mindfulness. For starters, by encouraging you to sign up for the email version of this update, and by setting the email delivery time at 7am, the email should be in your inbox when you arrive at work.
I don't know for sure but if you are like me, one of the first things you do to start your day is check your inbox to see what has blown up in the 12 hours since you left. So, if the email is there, there is a greater likelihood you will read it. If you take the time to read it, you have already made a time investment in our relationship and hopefully I will have said something in the post that gets you thinking about your own eating behaviors.
Maybe I hit just the right note with a post and it flashes to you at some point during the course of your day and you bring your attention to what you are about to eat -- and make some kind of conscious decision about it.
The blog didn't do any of this -- you did. All the blog did was make it a little easier to keep the idea of mindfulness a little closer to the front of your brain so it could pop up at just the right moment.
Blogs, logs, diets, even coaches .... they don't create action -- you do. They might remove obstacles but you create the action to get you where you want to be.
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on 9/7/10 2:57 am, edited 9/7/10 3:37 am
on 9/7/10 2:57 am, edited 9/7/10 3:37 am
What I am working on now is "staying in the moment," which I think is the same thing or almost the same thing as your "mindfulness." For me this means no regrets about the past, no worrying about the future, just staying in the moment and trying to do the "next best thing." I've been starting day with "quiet time" on my back porch, which is my Zen area, and ending my active day with 10-15 minutes of meditation when I go upstairs for the night.
I am trying to listen to my body--it's telling me to exercise more, eat better, and floss regularly. Really--the floss message was the first one I received clearly, lol!
I am trying to get it both the staying in the moment and the listening to my body things to work on food by telling myself that I only have to make one choice at a time--I am not choosing to give up carbs for the week or the month, only for the next meal or snack. It's a work in progress, though!
I am trying to listen to my body--it's telling me to exercise more, eat better, and floss regularly. Really--the floss message was the first one I received clearly, lol!
I am trying to get it both the staying in the moment and the listening to my body things to work on food by telling myself that I only have to make one choice at a time--I am not choosing to give up carbs for the week or the month, only for the next meal or snack. It's a work in progress, though!
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