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Cooking Jam  -  Teija Lehto, 2016

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It’s about the strange comfort of loss and alienation in americana.

mostly just ‘OUUGHOHOHOHOOOOO’ if we’re being totally honest here

[Image: tweet from Heather Lindsaychen (@oceana1009): “Reframing motivation not as an act of will, but a thing that naturally occurs when I am rested, fed, and am taking things at my own slow pace has helped me a lot“]

Hey, here is a nice insight for those beating themselves up for their low motivation.

I’ve noticed recently that I have a mental flinch response every time I consider doing something. Even a really easy pleasant thing, like going for a short walk or getting a snack from the fridge, let alone things like washing the dishes or doing work. I feel an impulse to do the thing and then I immediately shut it down and tell myself “maybe in five minutes”. This seems really bad! And I suspect it’s partially caused by forcing myself to do things, so that now when I consider doing a thing my instinctive response is “no” because I… don’t trust myself about it, if that makes any sense?

So anyway, instead of forcing myself to do things, I’ve been trying out just relaxing and doing what I want and following the random impulses, and it turns out I can 1) have fun, and 2) get decent amounts of work/etc done that way without feeling awful about it! While beating myself up about things pretty directly led to doing even fewer things in the long term, because my brain learned to associate “doing things” with unpleasantness. Don’t make your brain do that, it sucks.

I also want to acknowledge that we can’t always just do whatever we want willy-nilly. But noticing mental flinches (I had characterized them as a mental wall, previously)—and giving thought to what is motivating them—can lead to really useful insights.

In a similar vein is the way we build up small tasks that we’ve been putting off. I don’t know about you, maybe-a-lizard, but I get the same mental flinches with a task that’s been sitting on my to-do list for too long. I’ve realized I’m getting “nope” signals and that if I take a moment to recognize whatever is causing those (guilt, uncertainty about the first step, bad feelings etc.), I can break the current negative associations and move forward into a more constructive place.

I think connecting these things (the mechanics of motivation, mental flinches, and self-reflection) is really powerful and can help a lot when your “get up and go” is more of a “get up and no.”

Just some additional thoughts :)

If you see weird pics of ladies with dubious links posted on your blog out of the blue, here’s a step by step way of stopping this and preventing it from happening again that I think might work.

Important : this only works if you can still access your blog!

Changing your password is important, but it won’t do you any good if your hacker still has an opened session on your blog and can still access it. So the first thing you wanna do is close your hacker’s session.

For that you need to go in your blog’s settings:

On the new page opened, scroll all the way down. There, you can see something called “Active Sessions“. The first and oldest one (”current session” in green) should be yours, the new one should be the hacker’s session. To close your hacker’s session, click the gray X next to it.

Now that their session is closed, they can’t access your blog anymore unless they enter the password again.

So don’t lose time, go all the way back up and change your password immediately. Make also sure your hacker didn’t change your email address.

Now you should be safe from your hacker. But it won’t prevent you from getting hacked again.

If you really want to be safe from hackers, you should turn on the “Two-factor authentification” option (on the same page).

It requires you to enter your phone number, which is a bummer. But if it’s turned on, everytime you wanna log on (so not if your session is already opened, but only if you log off and try to log on again), it will send a code on your phone that you’ll have to enter (in addition to having a password).

That way if someone tries to hack you again, even if they get your password right, they won’t be able to enter your blog without having that code.

YES GOD FINALLY.

This is an essential part of emerging tech rights, esp for young influencers and media users. Kate Eichhorn recently wrote a fantastic book abt this called The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media that explores the ways permanent records of childhood — particularly representations the children themselves may not be in control of, such as the children of mommy-bloggers or influencers used for clout — can have lasting influences on how we mature in a digital society

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