Small icons representing weather, mental energy, exercise, anxiety, and yesterday rating

Bryan Mathers is a friend, WAO collaborator, and creator of the Thought Shrapnel logo. He has an occasional newsletter which is always a ray of sunshine in my inbox. His latest, in particular, was delightful.

If I check in with myself at all in the mornings, it’ll be to figure out what I call my ‘emotional temperature’. This approach is much more granular, nuanced and considered. I like it!

Even though there’s a chance that over time I’ll extend these reflecto-glyphs so that it takes me two hours to get started in the morning, I quite like the little rhythm that I’ve found. Saying hello to the morning, and adopting the curious position of “well what have we here?” to the day ahead. Otherwise, I’m a sucker for the first distraction or burning issue that the day presents, and a hostage to the irrational anxieties that lie at the back of my head…

Source: The Visual Thinker