Time for a RESET!

It is time for a reset! Do you ever feel like you are one gigantic treadmill day after day? This “hamster wheel of life” creates stress, FOMO, missed opportunities, strained relationships, and burnout. The time has come to take back control of our most valuable asset: TIME. A reset has been due for some time now. We don’t have to feel trapped in a world designed to distract us. The tyranny of choice is real. Subscription fatigue is real. Doomscrolling is real. Curated marketing is real. Burnout is real. If you feel trapped on this “hamster wheel of life”, let’s step off and design a life that actually matters. You are never going to say to yourself when you finally retire someday, “I wish I would have worked more.” Instead you will reminisce about all the missed opportunities, the shoulda, coulda, woulda’s of your life. You will wish you designed a life on your terms. A life that not only matters to you, but a life that matters to your family and friends. Time for a RESET. If you are ready for a reset, then I suggest you start with journaling. I have been journaling for years and have jumped from paper to digital, then to a hybrid approach, and now exclusively paper. The satisfying feeling of pen on paper provides not only a physical connection between you and your thoughts, but forces you to slow down and think. This small act of writing your thoughts down can calm the mind and provide clarity in a world where our attention spans have shrunk to all time lows. Writing, especially cursive writing has been shown to create stronger “memory hooks” than typing. Cursive requires specific, fluid movements that engage the brain more deeply. The simple act of writing in cursive activates much more of the brain than typing by linking motor, sensory, and neural parts of the brain. This “cross-talk” creates more elaborate patterns, which are the foundation for long-term memory. Your brain actually gets tactile feedback, helping you recognize and recall information later because your brain remembers the feeling of writing it. Writing in cursive forces you to synthesize information. You have to summarize, paraphrase, and choose the most important points. What this means is that you have already learned the material by the time you have finished writing it down. Putting your thoughts down in a journal will help you keep what matters most to you in the forefront of your memory helping you reduce stress and design your freedom intentionally. It’s Time for a RESET!