Sense-sational Spellbook
Sense-sational Spellbook
Properties
- date:: 2025-09-10
- time_spent:: 09:30-17:50 = 8 hours 20 minutes??? But minus many frequent breaks... so take off 2 hours...?
- format:: PDF
- url:: [Link or file path]
- theme:: Make Life Magical, Not Just Practical
Project details
What did you ship?
Part of the 30 Ships, 30 Days challenge
A Practical Guide to Harnessing the Senses for Living Your Most Magical Life. It's a 3-day self-guided journey within a PDF. Image preview below!
I plan to set this up on my website as a proper lead magnet, but for now, it's on Google Drive:
- Two versions of the file are available-- it's the same content.
- If you want to copy-paste, here's the big version [124MB].
- If you just want to view, here's the small version [2MB].
The big version looks prettier because it's crisper! But if you don't have unlimited data or wifi, definitely go for the 2MB version!!!!
π± Question / Spark
What was I curious about?
How can we creatively use mindfulness to inject some magic into daily living? Noticing is a key part of mindfulness, and rituals are a strong component of sense-making. And the 5 senses are often talked about as being important e.g. for marketing but maybe not so clearly defined on how to use them.
π§ Hypothesis / Hunch
What did I think I knew or want to share?
That intentionally crafting our experience of senses, especially by ritualising these, will boost mindfulness and groundedness to support emotional regulation and executive function.
β¨ How This Relates to the Theme
Explicitly link this artifact to your theme. Even a sentence is magic.
Magic is about spark and levity. Intentionally refining your experiences to boost enjoyment of the senses supports feeling a sense of wonder and joy and inserts "glimmers" (Opposite of triggers from TikTok β cute and useful concept)
π Data / Life Experience
Lived moment, convo, story, quote, etc.
βFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.β
β Emily Dickinson
π§° Scope Notes
In Scope:
Out of Scope (long list encouraged!):
πͺ Reflection
OH MY GOD. WHY WAS THIS SO HARD
I want to tear my hair out hahahahahaha. Not literally. Kind of. Idk.
I'll come back tomorrow and reflect properly. This was a very frustrating day. But I love the outcome!!! AND I FINISHED A THING YAY.
I'm back!
I'm a lot happier about this now. I think last night I was just tired. Anyway, I've been thinking of making a lead magnet 𧲠of some kind since at least 2023. I had so many ideas. I would start... I would try again... nothing materialised.
I tend to overthink things.
Is this guidebook perfect? No. But it is done. And I actually used it yesterday because I was ignoring my sense of within-ness (I'm using that in place of interoception)! And then I honoured my body by eating. So yay. It already helped someone. That person was me... but still. I'm a person!
ποΈ Project Modularity
What did I re-use from other projects? Link to them (the more you reuse the better! Think like a programmer)
I admit I haven't reused anything yet, but I feel like I can reuse things from this project, so yay for next time!
π§ ββ¨ Synthesis / Lesson
What did I learn during the shipment?
Okay, some lessons...
- starting from a template is helpful
- PDF compression is janky business - need to figure that out
- a clear vision is helpful. Initially I had a vague idea about what to do, but I used the layout of the Canva template as a springboard for ideas. I guess it acted as an additional creative restraint.
π§ STOP β’ START β’ KEEP
- βοΈ Stop: Over-committing lol.
- π Start:
- β Keep:
π§ Zettels or Tracts Spawned?
Any permanent notes, insights, or essays created?
Hahahaha is there any time to write zettels when doing a one-day ship like this?!
Okay, fine. Here's a thought that came as part of reflection. Maybe that's my process going forward!