The Writing Challenge
For 31 days, I must publish an original piece every day. No excuses.
When I Have a Few Drinks…
I often write notes to myself. Sometimes via email, sometimes Evernote. Many times they are in a flurry of three or four separate emails at…… ¶ I often write notes to myself. Sometimes via email, sometimes Evernote. Many times they are in a flurry of three or four separate emails at a time spread out over a couple hours. They are sometimes coherent, sometimes pure gibberish. ¶ These notes are often forgotten and then revisited weeks, months, even years later. Without the context of what I was doing, thinking, seeing, hearing, my location, or who I was with, they can sometimes range from rather light-hearted & hilarious to…
Seth KravitzJan 25
What to Do the Next Time You Are Being Cruel to Yourself — Part #2
It’s easy to beat yourself up because there is no one there to defend you inside your head. As I talked about in Part #1, we all have a…tendency to be too hard on ourselves. Especially when it comes to making mistakes. We say things inside our heads that we would never allow anyone else to ever say to us. And we let ourselves get away with it over and over. ¶ In Part #1 I used a scenario that happens like clockwork in my life. I make a mistake, I drop the ball on something important, or I let someone down. The first thing that happens is this angry little voice in my head pops up with the heart-warming message of… ¶ “Seth…Seth KravitzJan 20
What to Do the Next Time You Are Being Cruel to Yourself — Part #1
We all mess up. We all have bad days. Days where our minds are soured. Sometimes it’s little things that trigger memories of the past or…old habits that never died. Sometimes it’s major screwups where you may wonder how you have survived into adulthood. ¶ The worst is when we make the same mistakes over and over, for that umpteenth time in our lives (like the many times I’ve accidently walked into traffic while staring at my phone…). ¶ When those messups occur, no matter how small, there is a universal human tendency to react by being a cruel to ourselves.Seth KravitzJan 19