July 4, 2024
evaluating headspace
Recently did a headspace budgeting exercise in an effort to organize my thoughts (ultimately as a way to organize my feelings) by way of presenting a goal headspace to strive towards. Naturally, started creating categories of possible thoughts that could make up a headspace.
Seems like these days:
Ideally, more like:
Thought categories:
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Wishful | fantasizing certain futures, delusional as opposed to visionary |
| Pity | self-pity, justifying reasons to be sad for yourself <- ultimately a way of preserving the ego |
| Regrets | replaying cringe/embarrassing moments, implicitly building resentment against myself for certain decisions, self doubt which arises from those regretful decisions (ie “I’m not what I could’ve been”) |
| Worries | anxiety, paranoia about the future, being fixated on negative potential futures, outcomes, consequences |
| Distractions | hobbies, media, music, content, possibly food |
| Thoughts | productive, meaningful thinking, “pre-thinking” certain questions and scenarios, actively and constructively thinking of nouns inspired by circumstance (ie academic material, work, friends, relationships), living thematically, focusing on certain and new aspects of life at a natural time |
| Aspirations | working vision, future planning, hopes, that which is being focused on, opposite of despair |