Part 2: Ten things to take into 2025
Go deeper
Welcome to this 10-part series on 10 things to take into 2025.
This series is a homage to Catie Payne’s awesome Reskillience podcast's '10 Things’ series - in which her guests gather a list of 10 things to inspire a more resilient, skillful future.
Over 10 weeks, I’m jotting down 10 things (habits, ideas, mindset shifts, and gentle reminders) I’m taking into 2025 - which is allowing me to sprinkle in all the juicy changes happening for me this year too.
Here is the previous part:
Part 1: Digital tools over digital drugs (Alt: Go at human pace)
What are you taking into 2025? Let me know in the comments, I’d love to know.
Thing #2: Go deeper
This follows hot on the heels of the last thing (Digital tools over digital drugs) and is similar to one of Catie’s own points in her 10 Things, which she called Whole Album Existence.
In 2025 I aspire to have the kinda nervous system that can read a whole newsletter or article without skimming or switching apps distractedly.
I really hope that folks read all the words I purposefully plonk into my newsletters. So I intend to return the attention.
I don’t want to bang on too much more about the disastrous effects that scrolling culture has on our attention span, I already did that in Part 1. Needless to say, I feel it. And I hear mention of it everywhere. It’s high up there in our collective consciousness but I don’t see much action to counteract it, or pathways or modeling to show us how to regain our pre-2000s attention spans and nervous systems.
I frequently find myself on the emergent edge of things. Trialing, testing, prototyping, pushing norms, being the weird one. So I guess that’s what this is - the edge between using digital tech as a tool rather than an addictive drug, and cultivating an attention span that delights in devouring the long-form, over snack-size dopamine hits.
This year I want to go deeper into learning things like natural beekeeping, community building, and learning more about social permaculture. I might even learn how to knit (maybe… ask me again in winter).
I want to read more books and listen to more albums from start to finish.
The fam bought me a secondhand record player (from Suffragette Records) last year, and it’s so wonderful to play an album the way the artist intended.
Being less digitally addicted will hopefully open up space to go deeper.
Thank you for reading this installment of Ten things to take into 2025.
What about you? Is reading more, researching deeply, and listening to albums from start to finish one of your intentions this year? Let me know, I’d love to hear from you.
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