Just Sit There

mindfulness • creativity • collaboration • resilience

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

Self-care reminders to self:
1. Routines
2. Grace
3. Hobbies
4. Connections
5. Boundaries

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

My brother claimed he knew a shortcut. Within three minutes, we were completely lost in the Maine woods. Then we heard rustling. "Bears?" one of us whispered. “Mom!!!???” the other yelled.

"Yes?" came my mother's voice from the https://t.co/GE5mg8H503

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

Picture this: Your team's planning meeting. Everyone knows you're overloaded. Another "urgent" priority gets added anyway. That silence in the room? That's organizational silence—everyone sees the problem, no one names it. Then https://t.co/cya8z2tEKM

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

When I renovated the barn, I found scribbles on the studs beneath the old paneling.

Darkroom sink hookup. Stat machine power.

I didn't know what they meant. I filed them away as curiosities and kept working — running my graphic https://t.co/RRJllBTfEr

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

The best parenting advice I ever got also turned out to be the best coaching advice I ever got.

Clear constraints. Genuine choices. Consistent follow-through. Enough calm in the system for the other person to find their own regulation. https://t.co/13cLqjnCTN

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

At 98, my father couldn't remember I'd visited a few days before. But ask about that cabin in Maine from 1969? "Gus's place. Lake Megunticook." Crystal clear.

That summer I was nine. Got lost in the woods (mom was 50 yards away). Kicked https://t.co/GE5mg8H503

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

A child psychiatrist once told us the problem wasn’t our daughter.

It was a capability mismatch. Her intellect was running years ahead of her emotional regulation. The fix wasn’t more pressure, more reasoning, or more consequences. https://t.co/13cLqjnCTN

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

I've never knocked on the door of a childhood home.

I've driven past them. Slowed down. Sat in my car long enough that I probably looked suspicious. I've stared at the windows and tried to remember what was on the other side of them. https://t.co/RRJllBSHOT

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

The best parenting advice I ever got also turned out to be the best coaching advice I ever got.

Clear constraints. Genuine choices. Consistent follow-through. Enough calm in the system for the other person to find their own regulation. https://t.co/13cLqjn54f

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

My brother claimed he knew a shortcut. Within three minutes, we were completely lost in the Maine woods. Then we heard rustling. "Bears?" one of us whispered. “Mom!!!???” the other yelled.

"Yes?" came my mother's voice from the https://t.co/GE5mg8H503

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

A stranger knocked on my front door.

Not the back — where friends and family came. The front. Which nobody used.

She had a radiant smile and the slightly apologetic look of someone about to ask an unusual favor. She explained she'd https://t.co/RRJllBTfEr

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

At 8 AM, two hours before my California DMV appointment, I discovered my Massachusetts registration was suspended. I'd been riding an illegal Vespa for two weeks without knowing it.
What happened next involved three customer service reps https://t.co/Lsx2LpBP4Q

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

A child psychiatrist once told us the problem wasn’t our daughter.

It was a capability mismatch. Her intellect was running years ahead of her emotional regulation. The fix wasn’t more pressure, more reasoning, or more consequences. https://t.co/13cLqjnCTN

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

At 98, my father couldn't remember I'd visited a few days before. But ask about that cabin in Maine from 1969? "Gus's place. Lake Megunticook." Crystal clear.

That summer I was nine. Got lost in the woods (mom was 50 yards away). Kicked https://t.co/GE5mg8Gxav

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

My mother-in-law gave us a housewarming gift I've never forgotten.

She tracked down the property deeds going back to 1777 and had them bound into a book. Two hundred years of names and dates — James and Elizabeth Pool. George Brunner. https://t.co/RRJllBSHOT

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

The best parenting advice I ever got also turned out to be the best coaching advice I ever got.

Clear constraints. Genuine choices. Consistent follow-through. Enough calm in the system for the other person to find their own regulation. https://t.co/13cLqjn54f

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

With five concurrent tasks, you lose 80% of your capacity to context switching alone. Only 20% goes to actual productive work.

This isn't about discipline. It's about how human cognition works. Your brain can't instantly swap between https://t.co/JkNR4UOPMo

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

My brother claimed he knew a shortcut. Within three minutes, we were completely lost in the Maine woods. Then we heard rustling. "Bears?" one of us whispered. “Mom!!!???” the other yelled.

"Yes?" came my mother's voice from the https://t.co/GE5mg8Gxav

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

Shia from Progressive spent 15 minutes explaining interstate insurance database protocols I had no idea existed. Pablo from the DMV got on his hands and knees to verify my engine number. Lisa made the California DMV feel almost... human. In https://t.co/Lsx2LpBhfi

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

At 98, my father couldn't remember I'd visited a few days before. But ask about that cabin in Maine from 1969? "Gus's place. Lake Megunticook." Crystal clear.

That summer I was nine. Got lost in the woods (mom was 50 yards away). Kicked https://t.co/GE5mg8Gxav

[Just Sit There @justsitthere]

When I renovated the barn, I found scribbles on the studs beneath the old paneling.

Darkroom sink hookup. Stat machine power.

I didn't know what they meant. I filed them away as curiosities and kept working — running my graphic https://t.co/RRJllBSHOT