Easy Peasy Tip: Scrutinize One Thing
By tinychoices | August 14, 2010
It’s easy to reach that point where you feel like there’s not much else you can do in the realm of individual environmental tiny choices. Just ask Jenn and Karina, who, surprisingly, often find it hard to come up with an Easy Peasy Tip after generating them weekly for three years!
Really, though, focusing on the individual outcome that you want to change is a type of goal oriented thinking. By changing your reasoning to a more processed oriented way of thinking, you can often work on one activity or other aspect of your life and work through the process – generally developing a bunch of smaller actions that might be ripe for Tiny Choosing!
For example – if you look around your house and say to yourself: oh, I am a pro-tip recycler! everything that can go in my recycling bin does! I have met my goal of recycling everything! But then you break down an activity – sorting the mail, for example, you may work through the process of opening envelopes, setting aside waste to be recycled, pulling out things of interest, shredding personal bits – see all the places where you might be generating additional recyclables and not capturing them in your bin?
Give it a shot! see what you can learn during your process.
Do you try to be goal oriented, or process oriented?
Topics: Easy Peasy Tips | 1 Comment »
I think I do both. I’m trying to focus on buy dry beans and other foods in bulk, so that I don’t have the tin can or packaging to recycle in the first place.