Category: 10 Weeks of Winter Project
Posts detailing the plans and concepts behind the 10WeeksofWinter.com blog and updates on progress, performance, modifications, and reviews.
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Week 3 begins… Today marks the beginning of the third week of winter for my 10 Weeks of Winter project. This is the point where I either lock in or fall off. Don’t know about you, but for me the third day and the third week of trying to make change is always so hard.…
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Counting on songbirds… Every day of my life the sun has risen and the sun has set. Every year the seasons turn. Without fail the tides wash in and recede. In the short span of time I have and will exist on this Earth, mountains, cities, rivers, lakes, roads, continents, and oceans endure like permanent…
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Endings… Abstaining: probably a good post-Thanksgiving topic, but I didn’t select it for that reason. After interventions (adding actions, processes, and activities), my focus for structural changes within my 10 Weeks of Winter project turns to abstinence. What needs to be reduced, removed, or limited to make desired change effective? As I relax my mind,…
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Inclement interruptions… Snow falls in silence transforming the world in the dark of night. The morning arrives to reveal a new landscape. Side streets lay under a heavy white blanket, while main roads obscured with muddy slush track new traffic patterns in the tire prints and intermittent disclosure of where the lines used to be.…
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Achieving results… Where practice meets routine and routine meets life the common advice for staying focused and carrying on is to set goals or set intentions. A ship needs a destination. An arrow needs a target. A pursuit needs an aim. These are goals. Concrete, clear, defined, measurable, known. But what if the end objective…
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Lessons of the wet winter… Water rises high along the river banks in late November. The fields and grounds and potted plants are completely saturated from rain. Rooftop and sidewalk puddles become a fixture of the landscape that ought to be named and added to Google Maps. Meanwhile the moss grows green and happily over…
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Feeling the freeze… One of the greatest gifts of winter is one I’m inclined to fight: slowing down. At a molecular level the cold air arrests momentum lengthening the time between action and reaction. Nearly every children’s cartoon depicting a sudden freeze shows the fish or the frog or the flower or the chattering squirrel…
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Embarkation ahead… Tomorrow marks the first day of my 10 weeks of winter. For today I will prepare the tools and techniques that I hope will sustain me and help rekindle the appreciation for the season. Through experience I’ve learned that drastic change never lasts. Modifications need to be made slowly and consistently and with…
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Losing the light… I love the winter! It has always been my favorite time of year, except for recently. For the past few seasons I’ve felt the slog, the dreariness, the near endless dark. Since last winter I’ve been asking myself why. What happened to my beloved season? Between considerable introspection and some meandering internet…