#little programming joys

[codemerything]

What are your favorite fonts for your browser? 👩🏾‍💻

I don't know what the font of my browser is, but it should be Arial or something of that sort. Do you guys care about that stuff and if yes, what font do you use? I recently noticed that changing a little thing like a font, wallpaper, or theme could spark the joy of using an application or a device. I changed the font of my VSCode after using it for years without ever tweaking it and every time I code I feel excited, my new font has ligatures, etc.

Font Name: JetBrains Mono

[tsuisuta]

is a kity :3

[songofwizardry]

it’s actually such a difficult time to be someone who’s unironically and genuinely and wholeheartedly into space travel, and believes in space for everyone, and thinks it’s bonkers that we have had zero (0) people who aren’t white American men who have set foot on the moon, but also who hates Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. (but also tbh it’s been hard for us Elon Musk hating space nerds out here for a long time.)

like I’m 100% not a fan of this billionaire Katy Perry space tourism… thing, but also. you don’t gotta write off space travel as a concept entirely as always imperialist/the realm of billionaires/pointless/etc. it doesn’t have to be this way come with me and I can show you a better world.

[healdeals]

after 3 years I am finally starting to make selfship art of my fursona and the Spam... dear god I am cringe but I am so free

[dimalink]

Duckling goes 2D – big yellow duckling

Little game, where duckling runs across the field. It has a side view. And he needs to jump over the obstacles. Little ducklings and pillars. You need to help him with this. And, in certain time, to press space. And duckling can to jump over the obstacles.

It is such a little game about a duckling with side view. Duckling, which was with third person view, back view – it is, already, programmed. There it was pseudo 3D. And here – 2D. So, now, there are two ducklings. One is 2D, second is 3D. Now, there are so many ducklings!

Wow, ducklings, ducklings. Good yellow little animals. My friends! With them I, also, run across the field every summer at the countryside. They can be different – big and small. And they can run fast. And jump! And wave with little wings.

Duckling wave with his little wings. And help him to run as good as you can. Duckling runs all the time! It is his favorite things to do. Field – it is so happy and sunny place for duckling! So, you want to run there! And to do only one thing - to run! And good, ok, – sometimes, also, to jump!

He has lots of field! And, it is different. And with little water. And green! And, all round, it is forest and field. So, lots of field. And, this is a place, where duckling lives. Game is about summer. Game is about countryside. And about duckling. About good mood. One more game about good and kind animals. Little animals are doing lots of their things. They run and jump, for example. As duckling!

And, sometimes, it is so fun – that, even, in night duckling can run! At night, you can see, only, main features of the objects. And, world, looks like, something another and so new. Not the way it was during the day. Night changes everything. And, all the same places – it is a new places for now. It is so interesting for a duckling, that he can to run a little in the night, with a joy and fun. Jump. And wave with little wings!

So, there are here 12 locations. In every location there are 3 levels. Locations are different with background. And ground colors. Game is made with screen 7. And, here, again, 16 colors for selection and screen 320 x 200. By the way, at level 2 colors - goes for background and 2 colors - for ground, which you run. So, this means, that game levels are colorful.

And, there is here a difference between day and night locations. 6 locations - it is day. And 6 locations – it is night. Night - it is same locations as day. But, they look like a shapes, silhouettes. They drawn as a box and not box fill. They do not fill with colors. Such a silhouettes. New visual. They look difference. Interesting retro effect.

About interesting – here levels have some slope. And, it generates during gameplay. Straight line, slope, more slope. And, two types of obstacles – pillars and ducklings. Game is with different angle slope for surface.

All you need to do here – it is to push with space during gameplay. When obstacle is going to you. Your big and yellow duckling stands at the left. And, something like, he runs. But, at the screen he stands. And, simply, when obstacle is going near to you – press space!

All locations are available from the start. And, they are in a form of a select menu. So, everything is drawn with different colors. So, selection – it is a squares, that are filled with colors. With this colors location is made. 3 colors for sky and 3 colors for surface.

By the way, at the level are in use 2 colors out of three. Field has something like its own landscape. And day and night too. And you - with arrows select, where you will have a run! So, before your eyes - there is something like a field map!

Simple game joke. Joke about a big yellow duckling. Game joke for good mood! Duckling, also, drawn with a joke!

Basic Pascal version 1.17 "BLOCK" – most newest version. In this version there are 4 new games! Platform Ball, Cabin Pilot, Free Blocker, Free Bee. And even more retro games! It is a pack of retro games with modern versions of Basic and Pascal.

It is now in development new version Basic Pascal pack games. This game will be included in a new version.

Basic Pascal: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/packs/basicpascal/index_eng.html Website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html Itchio: https://dimalink.itch.io/basic-pascal

[horsemeatluvr23]

Hi I have returned from having a very terrible migraine and a flare up, so have some more projection headcanons - Weighted blanket anon

- Etho has chronic migraines, he usually ignores them until he’s literally falling over from pain, nausea and fatigue though.

- Cleo experiences chronic pain, she’ll also randomly lose feeling in certain limbs, while this happens her limbs will still be functional though. So for example, Cleo may not be able to completely feel her legs, but she can still walk around (it’s just REALLY hard and she looks silly doing it)

- I think I’ve already sent in a headcanon about Cub making Scar custom mobility aids? But ! Scar is not the only hermit to use aids, Cleo and Etho will both use them occasionally, even Ren does ! Grian actually needs special braces for his wings so he can fly for longer (I headcanon him as an avian so yeah!)

- A more non-human based headcanon (I can do a whole ask on non-human hermit headcanons if you want :D), Grian likes to perch on other hermits and many hermits have custom shoulder pads so he can safely do so without hurting them.

- The hermits have bake offs, but the only people who can actually bake are judges. Yeah, there ends up being a lot of food poisoning. Beef turned salmon into a baked good.

- Ren is an author ! He has so many stories written, but he only shares them with friends. He’ll write custom novels for people then gift it to them as a way of showing he loves/cares about them !

- False is building rivers this season as exposure therapy to get over her fear of water

HELLO OMG I MISSED YOU I HOPE YOU'RE DOING BETTER NOW !!!! these r so perfect as always

[cosmicsproutcake]

how do you not know enough people to get enough roomates to move out????

I'm an agoraphobic hermit, Karen

[mister13eyond]

basically vin's morality is "you have to play with your cat until he's exhausted or he WILL make his own fun and it WILL be destroying your furniture"

[kelpiemomma]

Murderbot: if someone touches me I'm going to lose my shit

Combat SecUnit Khan: if someone isn't touching me I'm going to lose my shit

[griseldabanks]

Suddenly I'm thrown back to that epiphany I had when I was ten, typing up the story I was assigned to write for school. I didn't sit there and think, "I am going to be a famous novelist and make oodles of money and be praised by all." I didn't consider the monumental task of what it would mean to transform my barely-comprehensible drivel into books like the ones I read.

I just sat there, realizing I really liked the clickety-clack of the keyboard, and the way the plastic felt against my fingertips and the way the words steadily formed on the screen. "I want to keep doing this," I thought. "This is fun. This feels...good."

Over twenty years later, I'm still not a famous novelist making oodles of money and being praised by all. But I still sit down to type up the next part of a story, and I hear the clickety-clack and feel the plastic against my fingertips, and I think, "I want to keep doing this."

[cornsobsessions]

been thinking a lot about chatgpt usage at work today bc my coworker and i were having a discussion about it and i think a lot of it boils down to the fact that people just don’t want to use their brains. like i would rather figure out how to do it myself, give it a shot, even if i don’t really know what im doing all the way and many people just don’t care

[incorrectbatfamandfriends]

Headcanon that since Jason can’t go out with his family publicly, what he does instead is show up in random disguises.

Bruce is chatting up some socialites at a gala, talking about the joys of fatherhood and how rewarding it is. Meanwhile he made eye contact with Jason disguised as a waiter twenty minutes ago, and is currently trying to stop his eye from twitching.

Dick is speaking to a third grade class as a part of the Bludhaven Police department outreach program, except when he walks in Jason is sitting behind the teachers desk, playing the role of substitute.

Babs can’t help but stare when Jason hands her a coffee from behind the counter of her favorite coffee shop. (His name tag reads Peter, and for a second she thinks she’s actually lost it).

Tim walks into Wayne Towers one day and on his way in, he waves to his secretary- lo and behold Marjorie has been replaced by Jason. It takes him three hours to notice.

Cass walks into ballet class to discover her teacher had to take a sick day- his replacement is Jason in a beret who talks in a terrible French accent the entire class, only to drop it at the very end to talk in a thick New Jersey accent. Her entire class talks about it for weeks.

Stephanie hails a cab on her way home one night, only to find Jason driving. She’s not sure how he pulled it off or how he got a cab, but her mind is effectively blown.

Duke is on a school trip to the natural history museum, and when the tour guide introduces himself, Duke can’t help but role his eyes. Jason gives a surprisingly good tour, even throwing in some tidbits about a robbery that went down just last week that the Signal stopped.

Damian’s encounter happens when he’s with Jon in metropolis. He’s watching Jon play baseball, and when Jon steps up to bat, he can’t help but notice a the umpire looks a little familiar.

[shushmal]

Okay but a sci-fi/futuristic au where at the very tender age of 10 Dustin codes his first ai program (I know, triggering right now, bear with me) presumably to be just an online assistant type thing to keep his mom or his adoptive brother off his back, to text his friends back so they don’t think he died in the middle of a science experiment, and to play his music while he works. To play video games with him since his friends don’t want to as much anymore.

He names it Eddie, because it’s pretty buggy in the beginning and keeps playing this ancient metal band.

Anyways Dustin doesn’t really notice that Eddie’s kind of become a little more than your regular ai assistant when Steve scowls at him and says, “Hey, your computer is being a dick to me.”

When he looks, he realizes Eddie’s chat algorithm has evolved to include personality. So Dustin, being the responsible scientist he is, absolutely helps it evolve more. And swears Steve to secrecy. Steve luckily loves Dustin and doesn’t want him sent to jail.

By the time he’s packing for university, Eddie had cultivated his own developed voice, a sprite for himself to show up at inopportune times, and a near decade-long beef with his brother.

“Dustin! Your robot is being a bitch to me again!”

“Your music sucks Steve-o, that’s not bitching, that’s facts,” Eddie’s voice calls from a near by speaker, sounding deeply pleased with himself.

“He’s not a robot,” Dustin groans for what feels like the millionth time. Yet, he adds internally, however. He is going to school for biomechanics for a reason.

So, of course, being the responsible scientist, Dustin makes an illegal android.

And just to piss Steve off more, he makes Eddie taller than him.

And Eddie, who has become Dustin’s closest friend, is overwhelmed and over joyed. They spend months just hanging out, introducing Eddie to his friends. It’s great. Eddie is so much like a real person that Dustin kind of forgets he’s not.

So of course Eddie reminds him in the worst way.

A few weeks of avoidance and hijinks later finds Dustin in his spare bedroom, hands over his eyes, screeching "please tell me you did not fuck my brother?" followed very quickly by "please tell mE YOU DID NOT FUCK MY ILLEGAL ROBOT."

[dimalink]

Duckling goes 2d – 2d fun with incline!

It is two dimensional runner, where you need, all the time, to press space button. And duckling is jumping! He jumps over pillars and another small ducklings. All little ducklings are running somewhere. You are – to one direction. And they are – towards you! Such a funny situation!

Game has in total 12 episodes and with 3 levels each. Levels has a different duration time. For example, first level is about 50 seconds. Later, final level is about 130 seconds. And, all this time, you need to have fun and jump! 6 episodes – in game day. And six episodes in game night. You can select whatever you want from the start!

Little secret for you to play easier from the start. About this you can get the ideas by yourself.  With a some game experience you gain. For someone it is interesting this way. And, so, – it is easy to give a tip at the start. A little tip! In a small little game! Jump. So, well, how to jump! Blocks - they are easier to jump over them. And about a little duckling – more harder.

To jump – it is better with having orientation about yellow little paw of your duckling. So, it is such a zigzag, bend. So, paw consists of two lines. They are with a bend. So, approximately, just before the first line of the paw or little earlier – do a jump! So,  you can check it about better accuracy for yourself!

Game has a certain speed. Rhythm, I can say. And, you do jumps and jumps! Such a game about endurance! At first - about a fun and interest. And, also, a little about endurance and a little-little about a discipline. Such a big duckling! Look, how he makes a jumps! Not jumps – but, almost, fly!

A big bird! Any bird needs to fly! Duckling too. Jump, jump, and, look, who knows, maybe, fly! Such a big yellow thing! Quak-quak!

And, little ducklings – they are about fun about everything, they have fun ever more than you, and there are lots of them! They are running in the field everyday and having a full fun they can. And not only during the day. But, during the night too!

And, day and night little ducklings are having fun! With two shift. And during the day – fun. And at night – also, fun. And, you are running across the field! Different types. Let it be that, someplace, there is no grass. And, only soil. Or magic land. But, anyway, it is a field. That’s why, here 4 episodes during the day has a name – field. Field 1,2,3,4.

And, during the night – also, 4 episodes – are fields. Fields 1,2,3,4, but, already, in the night! And, total 12 episodes. Field - it is a valuable part of the game! And it is difference or same here. A little different!

And, also, there is a magic land, duckling runs and runs across the field! And, find something interesting place! My magic land it has a name! Of course, it is the same field. But, looks a little different. Road and field. Field. And, also, my magic land. Duckling runs everywhere and look at everything around. It is so fun, when you live in a field! It is a fun for duckling!

And a whole pack of little ducklings too – they are also having fun! Everyone around - are ducklings! And they are having fun! Little game is about a good and kind animals. Game is about a positive! Countryside and summer. Such a game about impression. Field. Ducklings! Excellent summer!

And, of course, - it is, also, a retro theme. As Spectrum, 8 bit, Nes (Dendy), 8 bit computers. MSX computer, for example. Or some else – there were lots of them. Everyone has his own favorite 8 bit computer. During USSR there were lots of 8 bit computers. It is even a standalone theme. Sintez 2. Spectrum clones. About 8 bit computers and retro! As MSX!

Interesting game feature. It is incline of the field. Incline of the surface you run. It changes during the game. At the first level it is small and not makes a problems. And, at the level two and three – incline, already, bigger. And such a thing. Now you are run with certain one incline, a later, next moment – incline makes a change! And, you need to get the new situation at the screen, about a new incline! It is a game feature!

During level tree – incline can be from most big up to most small! Incline make a change, for example, something like, one time during 5-8 seconds. You can count! But, at level three incline, for example, can immediately, change from maximum incline to minimum incline!

With the first level incline change a little, and, almost, straight line. There is some incline, but it does not make a problems. With level two – incline is medium or big. Let`s user say it for himself. And, it is, already, a more easy to get the idea of incline. And with level three – incline makes a random from its maximum to minimum! Total 3 levels. Duration of the levels, also, raises!

Game is with idea of a such little game! With incline and about a duckling, also. During the game you can see your data. It is interface. Your life, your score. And level distance. You have eight lives. This is enough for a game. And you do not need to crush in anything! And scores – it is how much things you successfully jump over. If you make a crush – then you do not get the score.

For every obstacle you jump over - you get a score. And distance. It is like seconds. Something like level duration. It is measure with seconds. This interface is showing, approximately, once in 10 seconds. For a several seconds. So, be carefully! Or when you crush, then you can see your data too. And, in anything else - clear field and duckling! This is game screen! A lots-lots of little duckling are running to your side! Everyone is having fun!

Basic Pascal version 1.17 "BLOCK" – most newest version. In this version there are 4 new games! Platform Ball, Cabin Pilot, Free Blocker, Free Bee. And even more retro games! It is a pack of retro games with modern versions of Basic and Pascal.

It is now in development new version Basic Pascal pack games. This game will be included in a new version.

Basic Pascal: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/packs/basicpascal/index_eng.html Website: http://www.dimalink.tv-games.ru/home_eng.html Itchio: https://dimalink.itch.io/basic-pascal

[poolseason]

[NINJAGELION AU]

i've had this Ninjago x Evangelion/Mecha crossover au brewing in my head for years now, felt like revisiting it

Long post under the cut: Backstories, design notes and character lore

Mechs:

Unit-01 (WIP) : Lloyd's mech, supposed to resemble an Oni. It's primarily a dark purple with glowing green panels and orange accents, with 2 horn like antannae. It's 4 eyes are actually an LCD display. Unit-01's color scheme the same as from the source material, bc purple green and gold are plot relevant colors for Lloyd specifically. The weapons this unit uses are short-swords, plasma blasters, and it's bare fists(lol). This mech is prone to going berserk a lot, possibly due to it's pilot's mental instability.

(In NGE, the mech's are possessed by a spirit of their parents or loved ones, I'm indecisive on if Garmadon is the ghost in Lloyd's mech or Misako. Last time I was thinking about this au, Misako was possessing it, but i'm sort of leaning towards Garmadon again. idk idk.....)

Unit-02 (WIP): Built to resemble a samurai with dragon like elements that glow red. This mech is built for but land and undersea combat, making it the most versatile machine on the force. It's equipped with a retractable sword and an acid blaster. It's possessed by a former scientist named Nyad.

Pilots (and Cole):

Cole is a captain, (looking to be promoted to major) and is the head of the New Ninjago City base's combat division. He sort of a silly dude and while he takes his job really seriously, he's also prone to unprofessionalism. He personally oversees the pilots training and coaches them during fights. When Commander Garmadon and Assistant Head Wu refuse to take Lloyd in when he arrives at NNC, Cole decides to take the kid in himself and be the parental figure he doesn't have. Cole's got a complicated relationship with his own family, especially after his mother died saving him the Second Impact 20 years ago, now he vows to destroy all the darkness monsters that are invading.

Zane is sort of a mysterious guy. He's an artifical lifeform created specifically to pilot any mech but he usually fights in the prototype, Unit-00. Unit-01 doesn't seem to like him, and never responds to him. His suit is mostly grayscale, white armor, and light blue accents. His neural interface comes with a visor to help him see better. His primary relationships are Cole, Dr Pixal Borg, who is his personal doctor and (almost) confidant, Wu, who he has a father-son esque relationship with, and Lloyd his first true friend. He doesn't see much value in himself because he can always be replaced with a different copy, but his time with his friends starts to teach him otherwise

Nya and her supervising officer Kai are from Ignacia and joined the NINJA-go battle mech program through their connection with their parents, who were officers of the organization. But after a terrible accident following the Second Impact, they were left orphaned. Kai was too old to qualify as a pilot, but Nya was the perfect candidate. She began training at age 13, and became the strongest fighter on the force. Now at nineteen, the darkness monsters are now attacking and she (and her brother) are transferred to the New Ninjago City base, which seems to be the epicenter of the attacks, and now the the former solo-flyer has to learn to be a part of a team. She's a bit arrogant and prickly and a kindhearted friend to the other pilots, and she's got a bit of a crush on Junior Technician Jay Walker. Nya's suit design is definitely the most personalized primarily blue with grey, and darker blue and red accents with white armor, actually she ended looking a little like D.Va lol.

Lloyd, is the youngest pilot on the team now, but he's still a minor so he has to deal with the joys of school alongside his new life as a mech fighter. Having been unexpectedly summoned to Ninjago City by his estranged Uncle Wu and pressured into fighting the invading monster, Lloyd is apprehensive about his new double life, but this responsibility bestowed on him now means he now has friends and people who care about him, a far cry from the abusive boarding school he was abandoned at. Lloyd's a moody kid, with some anger issues and unresolved trauma at something terrible he witnessed when he was a young child, but he's also an empathetic kid who's willing to help everyone he meets. Lloyd has a sibling like rivalry with Nya, big brother(teetering on fatherly) relationship with Cole and Kai, a crush on the girl from school who punched him Akita, and really strained relationship with his parents and uncle. Beyond that he has a friendship with his mysterious colleague Zane that he doesn't really understand. Lloyd's suit is the most simple of the pilot suits, mostly green with white armor and gold accents. He didn't really think too much about it, other than asking Jay to make it green. His neural interface is also pretty simple, since he has an bizarrely high natural sync rate with his mech, which resemble little horns.

MISC Lore:

The second impact was an event where humanity fucked around and found out on the Dark Island and and entity called the Overlord awakened from hibernation, causing a near apocalypse that left Ninjago in an eternal heatwave. 20 years later these dragon-like monsters have started attacking trying to get to something being held deep below Ninjago City (source dragon? FSM as a dragon? firstbourne?? some kind of Dragon is under the base)

Zane promised Lloyd that he'll bring snowy winters back for him, and even though Lloyd thinks that was a rare moment of cheesiness from his friend, little did he know that Zane was going to cause an Ice Age during the climax.

Only people born after the second impact are viable candidates to pilot the NINJA mechs. When Kai learned of this he was furious that he couldn't be the one to avenge his family, and had to watch his sister fight and train instead. But in spite of his anger he made it a personal mission to get power in the organization and uncover the conspiracy behind the Second Impact and the attacking monsters.

Unit-00 is a prototype mech and isn't equipped for most combat scenarios, so Zane is primarily a long-range fighter and sniper. Zane might be replaceable to the force but Unit-00 isn't. Unit-00 was originally designed by Dr. Julien, but the man went mad and under mysterious circumstances, he was found dead inside it's entry plug alongside Zane's original iteration, Echo. After that incident, testing began on it, the original test pilot was a 24 year old, Morro, who was personally recruited by Wu, but the synchronization failed and disaster struck again, ending with Unit-00 going berserk, and another casualty. A similar incident happened with Zane, and later Lloyd, though they survive. Wu just needs to learn that Unit-00 really hates new pilots, and Zane is the only successful pilot for it.

Unit-01 is also a very testy machine, it only likes Lloyd, and goes berserk if it feels that Lloyd is in danger. Otherwise it doesn't respond to anyone else.

Cole and Kai might have hooked up in grad school, no one really knows for certain.

Pixal is the second Borg to join the organization, her father Cyrus Borg was one of the original researchers, and the person who designed the Geofront system that allowed the inhabited buildings in New Ninjago City to safely go underground and become a fortress on the surface. Pixal is more interested in the actual NINJA mechs and combat division research more than the civilian safety r&d, and she becomes the Head Scientist by the time the story begins.

Pixal the second in command to Cole, and her assistant is 23 year old genius Jay Walker, fresh out of an engineering degree and landed himself in the most insane secret government organization. Skylor and Dareth are the two other lead technicians. But Dareth's not too amazing at his job, admittedly.

The NINJA mechs aren't just machines,, they're enormous building sized cyborgs, and are actually alive creatures being held under armor. Unit-00 and 02 are cloned only from the dragon held under the Ninjago City base, but Unit-01 is cloned from the Overlord and the Dragon, making it a hybrid.

Throughout the story Cole and Kai begin to uncover a conspiracy orchestrated by the Commander and (reluctant accomplice Wu) and a mysterious council, with plans to destroy to world and rewrite reality, and for some reason Zane and Lloyd are at the center of it.

[glowettee]

✧ if it doesn't align with the dream life, it's a distraction ✧

hey lovelies!! 🦢

omg, so, i was literally journaling last night & this phrase just hit me like… so hard. "if it doesn't align with the dream life, it's a distraction." i had to stop writing and just sit with that for a min.

because honestly? i've been feeling so scattered lately. like my energy is going in a million directions but none of them are taking me where i actually want to go. and i realized that's exactly what happens when we don't have clarity on our it-girl blueprint.

so what even is an it-girl blueprint? it's not just aesthetic or vibes (tho those matter too!!) but it's this deep knowing of who you're meant to become. it's that version of you who wakes up excited, who feels aligned, who's living in her dream apartment with her dream career and her dream people. she exists!! she's waiting for you to become her!!

this post is a bit different from my most recents, i wanted to take a little tinyyy break from my pop culture series', like the pll x glowettee and vampire diaries x glowettee series' and just focus more on self-improvement again. i also wanted to take a break from the overwhelming aesthetics i've been using in my posts, and justtttt write~~ (no small text, no crazy colors, just my thoughts) and i realized that distractions have been very prominent in my life lately... so i wanted to address it in this post, and some possible solutions <3

✧ what's actually distracting you? ✧

okay so grab your journal rn and let's get super real about what's pulling you away from your dream life, feel free to use these prompts:

that situationship that makes you feel anxious every time they text (you know the one)

the hours of scrolling that leave you feeling empty inside

saying yes to plans when your body is literally begging you to rest

the "friend" who always has drama and makes everything about them

that project you started because you thought you "should" but you actually hate

staying in that job/class/situation because you're scared to disappoint someone

comparing your chapter 1 to someone else's chapter 20 (guilty!!)

i've been doing this work myself and it's kinda scary how many things i was pouring energy into that weren't actually taking me anywhere i wanted to go??

✧ getting clear on your actual dream life ✧

before we can align with our dream life, we need to know what it actually looks like! not what instagram or your mom or society thinks it should look like, but what YOU want.

some journal prompts that helped me:

when do i feel most like myself?

what activities make me lose track of time?

who makes me feel seen, safe, and supported?

what would my perfect morning routine look like if i had zero obligations?

what kind of spaces make me feel calm and inspired?

what would i do with my time if money wasn't an issue?

what parts of my current life would i keep even if i could change everything?

i did this exercise last weekend and realized that so many things i was chasing weren't even in my dream life blueprint?? like i was stressing about getting into this super competitive program but when i really thought about it, it wasn't even aligned with what i actually want. wild.

✧ how to actually make decisions that align ✧

okay, so here's my little framework for making choices that actually build your dream life:

the body check: before saying yes to anything, check in with your body. does it feel expansive and light, or contracted and heavy? your body literally knows before your brain does!!

the future self question: what would the version of you who's already living your dream life do? she knows!! trust her!!

the energy audit: does this person/activity/commitment give you energy or drain it? only say yes to energy-givers (this one changed my life omg)

the alignment test: ask yourself "does this move me closer to or further from my dream life?" be brutally honest!!

the joy metric: if it doesn't bring you joy or lead to joy, why are you doing it?? (unless it's like… taxes or something lol)

✧ how to let go of the distractions ✧

this is the hardest part tbh. because we get attached to things even when they're not serving us! here's what's helping me:

remember that saying no to something is saying yes to your dream life

start with the easiest distractions first (for me it was unfollowing accounts that made me feel bad)

create little rituals around letting go (i write things down and then burn the paper)

remind yourself that outgrowing things is part of becoming

be gentle with yourself when you slip back into old patterns (we all do it!!)

i had to let go of a friendship a few months that was taking so much energy, and it was really hard but also?? i suddenly had all this space to focus on things that actually matter to me.

✧ your dream life alignment practice ✧

here's a little daily practice i've been doing:

morning: set an intention to notice what aligns and what distracts

throughout the day: when making choices, ask "dream life or distraction?"

evening: celebrate the aligned choices you made + gently note the distractions

it's not being perfect!! it's becoming more conscious of our choices. because every tiny decision is either building your dream life or… not.

i've been doing this for about three weeks now and i already feel so much clearer and more focused. like i'm finally moving in one direction instead of being pulled in a million different ones.

remember: you deserve your dream life. and it starts with choosing it, over and over, in all the tiny moments.

question from mindy:

what's one distraction you're ready to let go of? and one aligned action you're ready to take? (feel free to send me a message in my inbox, or just reblog answering this question.)

xoxo, mindy 🤍