Everything you missed in August from Hold That Thought

At the start of 2024, Hold That Thought on LinkedIn switched to monthly. If you prefer smaller bites of insightful content served up weekly, please go here.

Here is everything I shared in the Hold That Thought weekly newsletters for August 2024

Links from last month to help you turn overthinking into expert thinking:

1. “…your capacity is not a box packing problem where you must allocate every single minute of your day. This is an anti-pattern” — Engineering Manager James Stanier on managing your capacity, not your time
2. “Describing the slowness of change is often confused with acceptance of the status quo. It’s really the opposite.” — Writer, Historian, and Activist Rebecca Solnit on how slow change can be radical change
3. “It's a lens to look through, not a label to be worn” — Nathan Whitbread ACC , from a recent podcast episode about neurodiversity and coaching, hosted by Claire Pedrick MCC and featuring Nathan and myself.
4. The 8 senses of the body from Psychologist Megan Anna Neff
5. Overwhelmed? Underwhelmed? Simply whelmed? Do literally anything. Or, for a bit of unthinking: Do nothing for two minutes
6. In his essay, How to get the best out of your downtime, Clinical Psychologist Roger Bretherton answers the question, “What do we call someone who becomes more relaxed and embodied and connected?”
7. “Once you do things quietly you become selfish in the best way.” — Author Morgan Housel on the value of Quiet Compounding
8. Take a deep dive on how to transform overthinking with me and Kate Johnson, CPTD on the Comfy Chairs podcast
9. On peaches and park benches – a reminder for the young, by Michael Thompson
10. A very simple and straightforward grounding exercise, led by Julie Marshall on YouTube. All you need is a chair.
11. “That narrative of elusive satisfaction isn’t just something we’re repeatedly being told; it is a story we’re literally buying into all the time.” How to stick with what you've got — an essay by Kurt Armstrong
12. We all have ideas in our heads about where our time goes, but until we actually sit down and assess the current reality, this is just a story we’re telling ourselves about our lives — it may or may not be true. Find out what's really going on with my updated Time and Energy Tracker
13. Is the problem you're currently working through a muddly puddle or a leaky ceiling? Another great illustration from Jonathan Hey at Sketchplanations , inspired by a quote from James Clear
14. As you go through the motions of daily life, you may be visited by various thought gremlins. Podcast Consultant Mark Steadman and I discuss ways to tame them on a recent episode of List Envy
15. “The motivation here is not to live like a monk, devoid of modern entertainment, but to choose the things we pay attention to” — Author & Entrepreneur Scott H Young , on trying to do too much

Speaking of too much, if all that was a lot to take in…

Get the bite-sized version of Hold That Thought — the weekly newsletter that helps overwhelmed creatives and small business owners turn overthinking into expert thinking. You'll see everything above, but with more context and in smaller, more digestible chunks.

Each week I also include at least one unthinking link…something small and easy to delight the mind. Such as bursting some virtual bubble wrap or this site that lets you control the weather

That's a wrap for August! Hope you got value from this — which link packed in the most for you?

Kim