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Tag: practice

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Mommess

practice makes a practice

Doing things and making things makes me feel alive. So to practice feeling alive, I need to be in motion, or at least making something for the sake…

December 16, 2025December 19, 2025 · 2 min read

Body & Health

High Commitment to a Low Standard

A way to make and sustain great habits. I’m pretty much sure we’ve all heard the adage “practice makes perfect.” And then as adults we recognized that perfection…

March 18, 2025March 18, 2025 · 4 min read

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Coaching

Designer Questions to Engineer Endurance, Achievement, and Happiness

Focusing your attention on long-acting, feeling-based, style-specific questions can give you a richer and happier experience of life. What I love about this process is that anyone can…

March 11, 2025March 12, 2025 · 7 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Patron

And notes on creativity as a practice. Patron = Pat Ron (an additional pat on the head to everyone who supports the work of artists) Yesterday, while discussing…

February 16, 2025February 18, 2025 · 3 min read

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Best of Mommess

Seeing: a creative’s guide to the senses

philosophical practices in nature -|- the art of trusting your senses The idea to put together this series came this morning in the woods. Most days, I walk…

September 13, 2024September 17, 2024 · 5 min read

Body & Health

Practice Notes – Jan 19

I’ve been taking Buddhism classes with Jungto Society, and I love them. The classes teach about the history, the philosophy, and the principles of Buddhism, but mostly they…

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 · 2 min read

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