The Daily 5 with Aurooba

A small reflection, what I learned, and a thank you.

Some thoughts on processing feelings and emotions healthily.

3 takes before I decided the episode was good enough. Also I pivoted between those 3 episodes dramatically. So that's a little meta decision making for ya.

I was pruning my plants a little today and giving them fertilizer and it got me thinking about why we do that and how that applies to other parts of our lives.

If you want to do great things, you have to accept it'll just be a few.

The second part of the last episode. The missing piece of kindness.

I prefer to be in the driver's seat of my life. Do you? I've written out the notes for this episodes like 5 times over the last 5 days, and I think.. I finally figured out how to say what I wanted to say.The Push/Pull article I was talking about: https://kellanem.com/notes/push-and-pull

An episode meant to be about experimentation that really did turn more meta, but still delivers the point.

I've spent my days recently thinking really really hard. Asking myself questions. So I thought I'd bring the one that most often comes to mind to the podcast more explicitly today.

Hugs are a kind of magic. Let's celebrate the power of hugs today.

I'll share what was nourishing for me today, in hopes that you go do something nourishing for yourself. :)

Our goals are aspirations not perfect pictures. They can't be, otherwise they wouldn't be goals, they'd just be things we do again.

Sometimes I just sit and breathe as I observe and trace the pothos plant in my house with my eyes. So today's piece is inspired at least in part by the pothos I have. :)

Do you sometimes wake up with questions that are burrowed in your mind and refuse to get out? That happens to me sometimes. And today's question has literally hounded me all day, I've evaluated and thought about it every waking minute, and it probably shaped at least half the conversations I had today.

We all have some underlying beliefs about fate wired into us from childhood. And I found myself think and talking about that with some folks today.

I'm back after being sick for a while! And today we're talking about honesty and how I interpret honesty.

This is a longer episode. And a pretty personal one.

Something about power, influence, doing what needs to be done, morphed into a pondering on leadership today.

On experiments in real life.

I missed an episode. Now what?

I started one place and got to another. Sometimes that happens. Today it was about the meaning of evaluation.

Too much stress can make something snap. Not enough stress stops growth.

The satisfaction of completing something, even if it's small, is perhaps underrated.

Inspired by a tweet that used the phrase, 'the courage to be disliked'.

Last quarter of the season, let's roll.

Come on a condensed adventure of how I arrived at a different hypothesis than I originally started with around the success and failure in habit formation.

Some raw musings on trying to improve.

The scene I reference is Grey's Anatomy, Season 16, Episode 5, about 30 minutes in.

The original blog post: https://aurooba.com/notes/change-of-scenery-and-complacency/

Capacity: the maximum amount that something can contain or produce.

Welcome to my favourite time of the year (not the gregorian year, mind you), let's talk about self-discipline, agency, and narratives.

This is definitely a rant on the value of clear communication. :D Also I definitely got a little career-y today.

You can probably skip this episode if you want to. It is here to not break the chain, and that's the honest truth.

This episode is heavy on Gilmore Girls references, fair warning.

"Ordinary things can become extraordinary when you do them with the right people and the right attitude."

We talk about change a lot here. But today, let's talk about the goodness of predictability.

I've been thinking about communication a lot lately. You know - communication, good communication that is, is more vital than ever when you are dealing with precarious or emotionally charged situations that can impact a lot of things. But good communication often needs to be practiced and worked on in low-stress situations so that it's an instinct you can rely on in high stress situations when much of your active capacity must be dedicated to dealing with the situation. Anyway. Just some unfinished thoughts on the matter.

The course I'm so nervous about: https://aurooba.com/js-essentials-for-wp-devs/ (not that it's going to stop me from sharing)

I'm not sure I made the point as eloquently as I could, but I tried anyway.

How often do you really check in with yourself?

Consistency and flexibility are not at odds with one another.

Kinda sorta all over the place today, talking about small things. Because, maybe small things add up.

Some choices are no big deal. Some are a bit of a deal. Some are a big deal. Know the kind of choice you're dealing with so you can treat it with the right kind of gravity.

Just some thoughts on how we present ourselves and communicte.

Short one on setting intentions for a new week.

If yesterday was spicy, today is..slower than usual.

Let's get a little spicy shall we?

I sat here for 45 minutes, and then opened up my Kindle, and the quote, "Be worthy love, and love will come." was on the page that opened up. And that gave me the words I needed to talk about patience.

What refreshes you?

If I'm totally honest, I had no idea where I was going with this and then I found my way and made a point about how to keep going anyway.