September Discoveries

Over the past month I’ve been trying to learn more Ruby on Rails, write more and was checking Instagram more regularly!

I haven’t fulfilled all my ambitions that month, but I was working towards getting there, and here are some of the goodies I’ve discovered along the way.

Life

Dr Kristin Neff’s self compassion test, which I discovered whilst reading the Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown. Self compassion has been a recurring idea on my mind lately. A skill worth cultivating, yet one that is largely vague. 

The self-compassion test follows Dr. Neff’s definition (shared in Brené’s book) that views self compassion from a more structured lens. Namely, it’s a result of the variables self kindness, common humanity and mindfulness — all of which the test helps measure to offer you a self compassion score.

Coding

• BitBucket. I never knew unlimited free private repositories were available (then again, I never searched for it)! 
• I discovered BitBucket via this awesome rails tutorial ebook — another rich discovery this month that I’m still trekking through. 
• Atom text editor. Still trying it out — so far the built-in fuzzy search is wonderful. 
• ConEmu terminal is far more pleasant than windows’s default one. Offering color changes, terminal type options, tabs and window resizing (among a plethora of features I don’t know I don’t know) — it’s a far more friendly experience.

Instagram

• Journalspiration for bullet journal inspiration with a chic monochrome palette.
  

This is my new daily setup. I will explain it a little bit more detailed in the video what's coming soon (I'm working on it 😩). It's my first time experimenting with the Dutch door system. I wanted to give it a try for my habit tracker. The last habit tracker hasn't worked for me. That's why I thought it would be a good idea to put the tracker next to my daily setup to see it everyday. 😊 I hope it works for me, we will see! _______________ Das ist mein neues Daily bzw. weekly Setup. Ich werde im kommenden Video (ich arbeite dran 😩) detaillierter darüber sprechen! Es ist das erste mal, dass ich mich an der dutch door Variante probiert habe. Ich wollte es mal ausprobieren, da der letzte Habit Tracker für mich nicht funktioniert hat. Und jetzt hoffe ich einfach mal, dass ich ihn öfter nutze, jetzt, wo er neben meinen täglichen Einträgen ist. 😊 _______________ #bulletjournal #bujo #bujojunkies #bulletjournalcommunity #planner #plannercommunity #plannergirl #filofax #filofaxing #stationary #wearebujo #bulletjournaling #roterfaden #leuchtturm1917 #planneraddict #handlettering #bulletjournaljunkies #bujoinspire #washitape #rockyourhandwriting #journal #journaling #journalspiration #germanbujojunkies #planwithmechallenge

A photo posted by Marie (@journalspiration) on Sep 8, 2016 at 11:14am PDT

• Airpixels. Perhaps I found this even before September but its breathtaking aerial landscape photography is well worth sharing.

Boats & Boathouses 🐝 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #rsa_rural #exclusive_shots #awesome_earthpix #gearednomad #global_hotshotz #mittnorge #neverstopexploring #ig_captures #Fubiz #vzcomood #folkscenery #ig_worldclub #globalcapture#collectivelycreate #landscape_captures #rural_love #master_shots #nature_brilliance #visualsoflife #superb_photos #shotzdelight #shotaward #earthfocus #special_shots #aov #tree_brilliance #water_brilliance #worldcaptures #ourplanetdaily #fromwhereidrone

A photo posted by Tobias (@airpixels) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:30am PDT

• Bujotrain for creative bullet journaling. Gradient lettering, maze habit trackers and more.

A closer look at my visual running tracker. Each square represents a km run. Yellow for runs on the treadmill and green for runs outside. _____________________________________________ #bujo #bujotrain #bujolove #bulletjournal #bulletjournallove #planneraddict #ilovepens #bulletjournaladdict #leuchtturm1917 #bulletjournalling #bulletjournaljunkies #bujojunkies

A photo posted by @bujotrain on Aug 29, 2016 at 10:12pm PDT

Those were a few of my favorite things from last month. What were yours? Feel free commenting your list below!