What are you tolerating that maybe you haven’t noticed?
So, I’ve started exploring how I’d like to work with Instagram- turns out a multi-account approach could be the solution.
Won’t know for sure till it’s an experiment that’s been experimented; that’s literally the only way to know. To try in real life and see what’s true.
To see what I have energy for and what I don’t.
Luckily I have a 3rd line Design and for the most part, trial and error is no problem… it’s literally life… “fail forwards” and “there is no failure, only feedback” are regular fare that my Mind accepts as it’s sustenance easily.
So many things we literally can’t know until we try. Okay sweet.
However, refining the experiment … not always my cup of tea.
I think it’s my Gate 36 that points to an open 35 and maybe also my open Gate 54 (at the least - maybe there’s more at play here - so many possibilities, I’m just now recognizing this as I type … the pressure is for new experiences)
So yeah, being the one who goes back and spit shines things or even maintains things to keep them pristine (thinking of our house and property now … Gen hubs does not get it - probably been THE most major contention of living together over the years) - it’s just not who I am.
It’s got to be someone else’s responsibility. Or it either doesn’t get done or only very seldom.
I’m more of an absent-minded professor type. It is what it is 🤷🏻♀️
HOWEVER, poking around at Instagram the last few days has made something clear … sometimes that can lead me to tolerating things that really only require a tiny bit of refinement - once.
It’s noticing those tolerations that’s the tricky part.
So here’s my face-palm IG example.
The first part has to do with surrendering to the idea of having a multi-account approach. It’s my marketing/being me M.O. on other platforms - why I didn’t figure this out sooner for IG, I have no clue.
And also I just typed this out in one of my FB groups -
Holy cow! I just figured out how to make IG not dark mode - this could be a game changer 😂
Seriously, it’s weird how different it feels to me … but true. That’s been one of my hurdles, I can’t read white on black as well as black on white. But I tolerated it. Till just now 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Turns out, the app itself doesn’t have a toggle. But there is a “phone-wide” switch that affects IG.
Freaking amazing 🤩
I swear, even for ‘an investigator’ the energy to investigate literally isn’t there … until it’s there.
There’s only one other place I visit that’s white type on black background - it’s a site though and was unaffected- boo. I’d read more there were it possible.
It isn’t. 🙂
Makes me wonder what other nuanced tolerations I haven’t noticed lately that could be refined. 🤔
So, while obviously this isn’t something to beat myself up over (or at least it’s obvious to me - you too?) …
It does make me wonder if taking stock and pausing the absent-minded professor mode - to at least notice where refinement might be possible… to improve efficiency, reduce resistance, grease them wheels … it just might make sense.
What’s something simple that you’ve been tolerating?
PS. all day yesterday I kept thinking — I should really take screenshots of the multiple accounts and begin to get an overview so I can see the possibilities for weaving them together (via references between them - these are rooms in my IG house, not different entities that are never meant to meet) … making this post has now brought the energy to grab the screenshots.
You can see, other than what’s been my main account - for years (@andreagoodsaid), we’re only just getting started :)
It’s okay 👍🏼
That last one I likely could stand to delete (another one of those tidying items - and also a toleration… gotta figure out what if anything it’s connected to and then chop it me thinks).
The other thing I tweaked is the Doing Business as Yourself account- had to create a new one because I’m permanently locked out of the original (it’s linked to a phone I can’t access and apparently there’s no email tied to it so … I finally gave up trying to figure that out yesterday and decided I could roll with a slightly shorter username) … a compromise that solves a toleration that was keeping me from moving around - I think it’s been that way for 2 years 👀🤓… see?
And so my life goes.
Let’s see what happens next.
🙃
PPS. Click on the first image for a better scroll experience (yep my 3rd line reporting in 😋)