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Keep Trying #3

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Amy Turn Sharp
Aug 10, 2022
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Keep Trying #3

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I made you a playlist.

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1.     Make a list of your friends. Now write one thing about them that is awesome. Text that to them.

2.     If you have trouble making a decision, flip a coin. While you're waiting to get the result, your mind automatically starts to wish for what it wants.

3.     Rewatch a great series. I love forgetting and then feeling familiar and falling in love all over again with characters and storylines.

4.     Write a little. Here’s a prompt for you: (did anyone do it last week?)

Use a cliche in a new way.

I like this one: the living daylights.

Play with that. Make something out of it. Unexpected. Maybe.

5.     Shopping on the internet calms me. I mean, this seems fun. And this is omg. I like this.

6.  Make Pies! Give them away. Invite people over for pies. Eat pies together.

7.   Tape up a bunch of index cards on a wall you see often. Start writing on them. There are no rules here.

8.     Make a list of two big things you want to accomplish or have happen by 12/31/22. Tape it on your bathroom mirror. This is a repeat. This is the sign you have been waiting for.

9.   Kitty cams for ever.  

10.  You are really doing better than you think. Have you had enough water today? Have you talked to a loved one today? Did you write down all the bad things from your brain? Have you loved yourself a little today? I highly recommend getting your bed at 8:30 pm and just being chill there. We all deserve it.

And remember.

mantra: LET THEM. My friend Carrie told me about this. If you are worried about what someone thinks about you. Let them. Let them. Let them. My other friend Jeni told me to practice this thought: I AM NOT TAKING THIS ON. She uses it for thoughts of school supply shopping to other people’s bad energy. Anything that causes her stress. I think it is brill.

Please leave something for someone else in the comments. That is an always ask.

ty, bbs.

Love,
Amy

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Jim Coe
Aug 10, 2022

Jim Coe

just now

#4. Use a cliche in a new way.

Here's a kinda example I read in this novel that is currently stimulating me, SEA OF TRANQUILITY by Emily St. John Mandel..."there was a sudden flash of darkness" I've never before thought of a flash of anything that wasn't a bright light.

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