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Anatomy of a Power Hour
Mar. 25th, 2021 06:09 pmSo I did a POWER HOUR today, my first one in a few weeks (yay!). Here's approximately what happened:
So basically, I did accomplish a fair amount of genuinely useful stuff (it was very nearly 90 minutes, instead of just an hour), and that's pretty good. But I find it pretty interesting that the way my power hour started was to lie down on the bed and be very bored.
And I think that's probably a previously-unrecognized really critical part of the event. The whole point of a Power Hour is _absolutely no electronic devices_ during the time, and then critically, it's also "it's cool if you're productive but you in no way have to be". But the problem is that I am pretty device oriented these days (and of course pandemic made it way worse, because guess how I see any of my friends or participate in any hobbies or work?) so my brain really quite needs that brief moment of boredom to cycle out the "wait but dumb games? watch taskmaster? play animal crossing? check twitter???" defaults that occupy most of my "it's time to do something" space.
Anyways, it's nice to be back on the upswing side of the cycle instead of the downswing side. Sigh. We build what structures we can while our brain works, in the hopes that we can slowly sustain ourself through the times it doesn't.
I hope you're well. I love you. <3
~Sor
MOOP!
1: By "properly" I do not mean any spread you've ever heard of, because I work very hard to not actually "know" anything about tarot so that I can most effectively use the cards to help sift my subconscious. But I do have a standard way of pulling cards, on the infrequent times I do.
I have also started to do single card draws, one from each of the decks my parents got me for chrimmas. It started as an attempted incentive to wake up in the morning and still sorta works like that. I don't know that I'm doing much with them, but it's a nice ritual to try and routineify.
*Lie down on the bed and close my eyes for a few minutes. Debate naps. Be bored. Try to decide if I should read a book or like clean my room.
*Sit up, wander around my room a bit, decide to pull tarot properly1
*Realize I'm annoyed by the vast quantity of little plastic bags that keep falling out of their cubby and onto the floor, decide to finally put them away properly, and also to clean out that particular cubby.
*Do so.
*Expand cleaning efforts to the little shelf, decide I want to finally properly clean off my whiteboard. This requires isopropyl and a rag. Realize downstairs while fetching the iso that there are rags upstairs in my clean laundry bag because I did mixed house-and-personal laundry.
*Clean white board. Talk myself into actually pulling it out proper and also cleaning the part hidden by my dressers, because let's be real, it's taken me five months to do this much, I'm not gonna do it again.
*Having found the rags I have realized I should put away the clean laundry finally, so sort that and put it away.
*Also I should run dirty laundry, gather dirty laundry.
*Okay, you know how the last time you did srs laundry, like a month ago, you were all "I should replace the sheets on my bed!" and then didn't because ???. Yeah.
*So now my bed has clean sheets and I've put away the down comforter for the summer and also I flipped the mattress over because it was starting to sag quite dramatically in the middle and maybe this will help.
*And the laundry is in the washing machine.
*And my room is pretty much entirely straightened up
So basically, I did accomplish a fair amount of genuinely useful stuff (it was very nearly 90 minutes, instead of just an hour), and that's pretty good. But I find it pretty interesting that the way my power hour started was to lie down on the bed and be very bored.
And I think that's probably a previously-unrecognized really critical part of the event. The whole point of a Power Hour is _absolutely no electronic devices_ during the time, and then critically, it's also "it's cool if you're productive but you in no way have to be". But the problem is that I am pretty device oriented these days (and of course pandemic made it way worse, because guess how I see any of my friends or participate in any hobbies or work?) so my brain really quite needs that brief moment of boredom to cycle out the "wait but dumb games? watch taskmaster? play animal crossing? check twitter???" defaults that occupy most of my "it's time to do something" space.
Anyways, it's nice to be back on the upswing side of the cycle instead of the downswing side. Sigh. We build what structures we can while our brain works, in the hopes that we can slowly sustain ourself through the times it doesn't.
I hope you're well. I love you. <3
~Sor
MOOP!
1: By "properly" I do not mean any spread you've ever heard of, because I work very hard to not actually "know" anything about tarot so that I can most effectively use the cards to help sift my subconscious. But I do have a standard way of pulling cards, on the infrequent times I do.
I have also started to do single card draws, one from each of the decks my parents got me for chrimmas. It started as an attempted incentive to wake up in the morning and still sorta works like that. I don't know that I'm doing much with them, but it's a nice ritual to try and routineify.