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**Your Instruction Booklet
We all have things about ourselves that we disregard and haven't attended to, whether it be emotions or not. Maybe you feel like you're too caught up in the future and therefore have trouble enjoying the moment. Maybe you're just annoyed that you always find some way to get out matching socks. Maybe it's something else. It doesn't matter.
The challenge: Come up with an Instruction Booklet that would help you with those things. Some of us have words we want other people to say to us, but that has never happened. Write it. Maybe you need instructions to tell you to go out and have a fun day for once. The instructions written may seem a bit silly to anybody but you. Or perhaps you need to write something silly because you need that.
The Instruction Booklet doesn't have to be long. It may only be one thing. And it might change overtime.
The hard part: Actually following what you self-written Instruction Booklet says. Perhaps you find you can only carry out one Instruction per day. It would be fun to try, though. ^^ Or at least serve as motivation.
Example:
Julia's Instruction Booklet
1) Watch a sunrise. You haven't watched one in a long time.
2) You spend too much time trapped inside your own head sometimes. You think too much. Go outside and try not to think too hard.
3) You've stopped writing in your journal. It was good for you. Keep it up.
4) Write down all the worst case scenarios you've ever thought of that you can remember. Laugh at them.
5) Buy some bubbles. Blow them. Label each bubble you see as a flaw you think you have. And pop them. You ought to feel better about yourself.
6) Forget about matching socks. Mismatched is the way to go.
7) Talk to your dad. Tell him he needs to enjoy the moment more. He's working too hard.
^ Subject to change, of course.
We all have things about ourselves that we disregard and haven't attended to, whether it be emotions or not. Maybe you feel like you're too caught up in the future and therefore have trouble enjoying the moment. Maybe you're just annoyed that you always find some way to get out matching socks. Maybe it's something else. It doesn't matter.
The challenge: Come up with an Instruction Booklet that would help you with those things. Some of us have words we want other people to say to us, but that has never happened. Write it. Maybe you need instructions to tell you to go out and have a fun day for once. The instructions written may seem a bit silly to anybody but you. Or perhaps you need to write something silly because you need that.
The Instruction Booklet doesn't have to be long. It may only be one thing. And it might change overtime.
The hard part: Actually following what you self-written Instruction Booklet says. Perhaps you find you can only carry out one Instruction per day. It would be fun to try, though. ^^ Or at least serve as motivation.
Example:
Julia's Instruction Booklet
1) Watch a sunrise. You haven't watched one in a long time.
2) You spend too much time trapped inside your own head sometimes. You think too much. Go outside and try not to think too hard.
3) You've stopped writing in your journal. It was good for you. Keep it up.
4) Write down all the worst case scenarios you've ever thought of that you can remember. Laugh at them.
5) Buy some bubbles. Blow them. Label each bubble you see as a flaw you think you have. And pop them. You ought to feel better about yourself.
6) Forget about matching socks. Mismatched is the way to go.
7) Talk to your dad. Tell him he needs to enjoy the moment more. He's working too hard.
^ Subject to change, of course.
