Twenty Tiny Transitions
Feb. 13th, 2010 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantThis is an exercise from a magazine article that intrigued me: "If you're having a hard time coping with change, make a list of 20 tiny transitions you could make that will improve your life. These can include anything from replacing the shower curtain to getting some business cards printed to buying new socks. Such small gestures can acclimate you to change."
I must be somewhat in this mode already, since this month I've bought new socks, replaced my windshield wiper blades, and ordered a piece of artwork from Etsy, but it was surprisingly difficult to come up with twenty!
Warning: what's behind the cut is incredibly mundane.
1. Buy a file cabinet. Get the files out of my room.
2. Add a fruit course to dinner once a week.
3. Move my bed away from the wall. (It's cold there and the street light gets in my eyes anyway.)
4. Clean out the car.
5. Find somewhere else to put the little rocking chair that's too small for everyone including the kidlet.
6. Put cinnamon on my cereal in the morning.
7. Read a nonfiction book for a change.
8. Walk up and down the stairs at work after lunch so I don't get so drowsy in the afternoon.
✓ 9. Change the folder I use for computer backgrounds.
10. Put the kidlet's bike on top of the lawnmower (at least until spring) so there's more room in the garage.
11. Try doing my writing in pen instead of pencil.
12. Buy a new pair of earrings.
13. Hang something different in my kitchen window, and put Aunt Bet's bird ornament back with the Christmas stuff.
14. Grab an evergreen branch from the yard and put it in a vase someplace.
15. Put out new toothbrushes for everyone.
16. Park in a different spot at work.
17. Put some new exercises in my Wii Fit routine.
18. Buy a new broom. (Anyway the old one is contaminated with half-rotten wet moldy cat food that was hiding in the far back corner under the hutch where the cats eat, and now it -- the broom, not the hutch -- smells.)
19. Switch seats at the dinner table.
20. Take a different route to work sometimes. (Before my dad retired, he used to refuse ever to drive to work the same way two days in a row. "In case someone is following me," he explained.)
I must be somewhat in this mode already, since this month I've bought new socks, replaced my windshield wiper blades, and ordered a piece of artwork from Etsy, but it was surprisingly difficult to come up with twenty!
Warning: what's behind the cut is incredibly mundane.
1. Buy a file cabinet. Get the files out of my room.
2. Add a fruit course to dinner once a week.
3. Move my bed away from the wall. (It's cold there and the street light gets in my eyes anyway.)
4. Clean out the car.
5. Find somewhere else to put the little rocking chair that's too small for everyone including the kidlet.
6. Put cinnamon on my cereal in the morning.
7. Read a nonfiction book for a change.
8. Walk up and down the stairs at work after lunch so I don't get so drowsy in the afternoon.
✓ 9. Change the folder I use for computer backgrounds.
10. Put the kidlet's bike on top of the lawnmower (at least until spring) so there's more room in the garage.
11. Try doing my writing in pen instead of pencil.
12. Buy a new pair of earrings.
13. Hang something different in my kitchen window, and put Aunt Bet's bird ornament back with the Christmas stuff.
14. Grab an evergreen branch from the yard and put it in a vase someplace.
15. Put out new toothbrushes for everyone.
16. Park in a different spot at work.
17. Put some new exercises in my Wii Fit routine.
18. Buy a new broom. (Anyway the old one is contaminated with half-rotten wet moldy cat food that was hiding in the far back corner under the hutch where the cats eat, and now it -- the broom, not the hutch -- smells.)
19. Switch seats at the dinner table.
20. Take a different route to work sometimes. (Before my dad retired, he used to refuse ever to drive to work the same way two days in a row. "In case someone is following me," he explained.)