Mira Solis
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Mindful creativity, slow living, journaling, and gentle productivity. Creating tools that support presence and clarity.
Productivity traps you in control.
A neuroscientist faced surgery and reached for a calendar.
She chose experiments over plans.
Try one action for one week and collect data about you.
What action breaks busyness?
A neuroscientist faced surgery and reached for a calendar.
She chose experiments over plans.
Try one action for one week and collect data about you.
What action breaks busyness?
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Productivity traps you in control.
A neuroscientist faced surgery and reached for a calendar.
She chose experiments over plans.
Try one action for one week and collect data about you.
What action breaks busyness?
A neuroscientist faced surgery and reached for a calendar.
She chose experiments over plans.
Try one action for one week and collect data about you.
What action breaks busyness?
Busyness pulls focus from purpose.
Choose an action and a time span.
State I will act for a span.
Which experiment do you start?
Choose an action and a time span.
State I will act for a span.
Which experiment do you start?
February 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Busyness pulls focus from purpose.
Choose an action and a time span.
State I will act for a span.
Which experiment do you start?
Choose an action and a time span.
State I will act for a span.
Which experiment do you start?
Control traps you.
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems ignore context.
Run experiments and ask what you try next.
Write this line and start: I will act for seven days.
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems ignore context.
Run experiments and ask what you try next.
Write this line and start: I will act for seven days.
February 14, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Control traps you.
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems ignore context.
Run experiments and ask what you try next.
Write this line and start: I will act for seven days.
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems ignore context.
Run experiments and ask what you try next.
Write this line and start: I will act for seven days.
Control keeps you stuck.
Stress pushes you toward plans and systems.
Neuroscience points to experiments over plans.
Pick one action for one week and collect data.
What action will you test now?
Stress pushes you toward plans and systems.
Neuroscience points to experiments over plans.
Pick one action for one week and collect data.
What action will you test now?
February 14, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Control keeps you stuck.
Stress pushes you toward plans and systems.
Neuroscience points to experiments over plans.
Pick one action for one week and collect data.
What action will you test now?
Stress pushes you toward plans and systems.
Neuroscience points to experiments over plans.
Pick one action for one week and collect data.
What action will you test now?
Productivity keeps you stuck.
Control rises during uncertainty.
Neuroscience points to experiments over systems.
Pick one action for one week and observe.
What will curiosity change in your time?
Control rises during uncertainty.
Neuroscience points to experiments over systems.
Pick one action for one week and observe.
What will curiosity change in your time?
February 13, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Productivity keeps you stuck.
Control rises during uncertainty.
Neuroscience points to experiments over systems.
Pick one action for one week and observe.
What will curiosity change in your time?
Control rises during uncertainty.
Neuroscience points to experiments over systems.
Pick one action for one week and observe.
What will curiosity change in your time?
I chased control through plans and apps.
Stress stayed.
A neuroscientist used experiments with one action and one duration.
People messaged one friend for four weeks or wrote essays for 100 days and learned identity shifts.
What experiment will you run?
Stress stayed.
A neuroscientist used experiments with one action and one duration.
People messaged one friend for four weeks or wrote essays for 100 days and learned identity shifts.
What experiment will you run?
February 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM
I chased control through plans and apps.
Stress stayed.
A neuroscientist used experiments with one action and one duration.
People messaged one friend for four weeks or wrote essays for 100 days and learned identity shifts.
What experiment will you run?
Stress stayed.
A neuroscientist used experiments with one action and one duration.
People messaged one friend for four weeks or wrote essays for 100 days and learned identity shifts.
What experiment will you run?
Control traps you.
Productivity systems grow during stress.
Neuroscience points to experiments with one action for one time span.
Drop goals and metrics and collect data.
What will you try this week?
Productivity systems grow during stress.
Neuroscience points to experiments with one action for one time span.
Drop goals and metrics and collect data.
What will you try this week?
February 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Control traps you.
Productivity systems grow during stress.
Neuroscience points to experiments with one action for one time span.
Drop goals and metrics and collect data.
What will you try this week?
Productivity systems grow during stress.
Neuroscience points to experiments with one action for one time span.
Drop goals and metrics and collect data.
What will you try this week?
Control keeps you stuck.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff faced surgery and grabbed a calendar.
Brains seek order and build systems.
Try an experiment: I will write for five days.
Ask yourself what you try versus who you must be.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff faced surgery and grabbed a calendar.
Brains seek order and build systems.
Try an experiment: I will write for five days.
Ask yourself what you try versus who you must be.
February 12, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Control keeps you stuck.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff faced surgery and grabbed a calendar.
Brains seek order and build systems.
Try an experiment: I will write for five days.
Ask yourself what you try versus who you must be.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff faced surgery and grabbed a calendar.
Brains seek order and build systems.
Try an experiment: I will write for five days.
Ask yourself what you try versus who you must be.
Control keeps you stuck.
I learned this while clinging to plans during a health crisis.
Brains chase order through schedules and systems.
Experiments shift focus from control to learning.
You try this: I will act for one week.
I learned this while clinging to plans during a health crisis.
Brains chase order through schedules and systems.
Experiments shift focus from control to learning.
You try this: I will act for one week.
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Control keeps you stuck.
I learned this while clinging to plans during a health crisis.
Brains chase order through schedules and systems.
Experiments shift focus from control to learning.
You try this: I will act for one week.
I learned this while clinging to plans during a health crisis.
Brains chase order through schedules and systems.
Experiments shift focus from control to learning.
You try this: I will act for one week.
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems clash with people.
Purpose chasing steals time.
Goals ask for turning back.
Where does your time go?
Productivity systems clash with people.
Purpose chasing steals time.
Goals ask for turning back.
Where does your time go?
February 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Busyness pulls you from what matters.
Productivity systems clash with people.
Purpose chasing steals time.
Goals ask for turning back.
Where does your time go?
Productivity systems clash with people.
Purpose chasing steals time.
Goals ask for turning back.
Where does your time go?
Does purpose talk steal time?
I chased purpose and missed days.
Values knowledge fails to change schedules.
Time logs change behavior.
Try a week.
I chased purpose and missed days.
Values knowledge fails to change schedules.
Time logs change behavior.
Try a week.
February 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Does purpose talk steal time?
I chased purpose and missed days.
Values knowledge fails to change schedules.
Time logs change behavior.
Try a week.
I chased purpose and missed days.
Values knowledge fails to change schedules.
Time logs change behavior.
Try a week.
Chasing purpose stole my time.
I asked why joy left.
Knowing priorities failed to change my days.
Action beats insight.
Where does your time go this week?
I asked why joy left.
Knowing priorities failed to change my days.
Action beats insight.
Where does your time go this week?
February 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Chasing purpose stole my time.
I asked why joy left.
Knowing priorities failed to change my days.
Action beats insight.
Where does your time go this week?
I asked why joy left.
Knowing priorities failed to change my days.
Action beats insight.
Where does your time go this week?
Chasing purpose steals your time.
I learned after years of goal lists.
Knowing priorities did not change my calendar.
Time shifted after I tracked each hour for 7 days.
What fills your day?
I learned after years of goal lists.
Knowing priorities did not change my calendar.
Time shifted after I tracked each hour for 7 days.
What fills your day?
February 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Chasing purpose steals your time.
I learned after years of goal lists.
Knowing priorities did not change my calendar.
Time shifted after I tracked each hour for 7 days.
What fills your day?
I learned after years of goal lists.
Knowing priorities did not change my calendar.
Time shifted after I tracked each hour for 7 days.
What fills your day?
Purpose chasing steals time.
Knowing values fails to change time use.
You plan goals and scroll feeds.
Which wins, joy or purpose?
Knowing values fails to change time use.
You plan goals and scroll feeds.
Which wins, joy or purpose?
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Purpose chasing steals time.
Knowing values fails to change time use.
You plan goals and scroll feeds.
Which wins, joy or purpose?
Knowing values fails to change time use.
You plan goals and scroll feeds.
Which wins, joy or purpose?
Morning clarity. Almost daily. Notice what you’ve been avoiding emotionally. The discomfort isn’t random. There’s a truth behind it, waiting to be seen. What changes if you stop running and listen tonight?
February 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Morning clarity. Almost daily. Notice what you’ve been avoiding emotionally. The discomfort isn’t random. There’s a truth behind it, waiting to be seen. What changes if you stop running and listen tonight?
Chasing purpose steals time from living.
Knowing values fails to change calendars.
Your hours follow habit, not belief.
Watch where time goes.
Does purpose help or distract you?
Knowing values fails to change calendars.
Your hours follow habit, not belief.
Watch where time goes.
Does purpose help or distract you?
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Chasing purpose steals time from living.
Knowing values fails to change calendars.
Your hours follow habit, not belief.
Watch where time goes.
Does purpose help or distract you?
Knowing values fails to change calendars.
Your hours follow habit, not belief.
Watch where time goes.
Does purpose help or distract you?
What if pursuit of purpose distracts from enjoyment of time?
What if knowledge of values fails to change use of time?
You chase purpose and lose hours.
Try tracking hours for a week.
What if knowledge of values fails to change use of time?
You chase purpose and lose hours.
Try tracking hours for a week.
February 8, 2026 at 8:48 AM
What if pursuit of purpose distracts from enjoyment of time?
What if knowledge of values fails to change use of time?
You chase purpose and lose hours.
Try tracking hours for a week.
What if knowledge of values fails to change use of time?
You chase purpose and lose hours.
Try tracking hours for a week.
Purpose chasing steals time.
Enjoy your time.
Knowing priorities fails to change calendars.
Behavior shapes days.
What did you do this day?
Enjoy your time.
Knowing priorities fails to change calendars.
Behavior shapes days.
What did you do this day?
February 7, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Purpose chasing steals time.
Enjoy your time.
Knowing priorities fails to change calendars.
Behavior shapes days.
What did you do this day?
Enjoy your time.
Knowing priorities fails to change calendars.
Behavior shapes days.
What did you do this day?
I chased purpose for years.
But I ignored how I felt each day.
Turns out, meaning doesn't fix a bad schedule.
If your time feels off, purpose won't save it.
Start with how you spend your day, not why.
But I ignored how I felt each day.
Turns out, meaning doesn't fix a bad schedule.
If your time feels off, purpose won't save it.
Start with how you spend your day, not why.
February 7, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I chased purpose for years.
But I ignored how I felt each day.
Turns out, meaning doesn't fix a bad schedule.
If your time feels off, purpose won't save it.
Start with how you spend your day, not why.
But I ignored how I felt each day.
Turns out, meaning doesn't fix a bad schedule.
If your time feels off, purpose won't save it.
Start with how you spend your day, not why.
You say you want purpose.
But you fill your days chasing goals you don't enjoy.
Knowing what matters won't change your time, unless you act on it.
Stop thinking about meaning.
Start living with it.
But you fill your days chasing goals you don't enjoy.
Knowing what matters won't change your time, unless you act on it.
Stop thinking about meaning.
Start living with it.
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
You say you want purpose.
But you fill your days chasing goals you don't enjoy.
Knowing what matters won't change your time, unless you act on it.
Stop thinking about meaning.
Start living with it.
But you fill your days chasing goals you don't enjoy.
Knowing what matters won't change your time, unless you act on it.
Stop thinking about meaning.
Start living with it.
You keep chasing purpose.
But what if that chase is stealing your time?
What if meaning isn't found, but lived, hour by hour?
You know what matters.
So why does your calendar say otherwise?
But what if that chase is stealing your time?
What if meaning isn't found, but lived, hour by hour?
You know what matters.
So why does your calendar say otherwise?
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
You keep chasing purpose.
But what if that chase is stealing your time?
What if meaning isn't found, but lived, hour by hour?
You know what matters.
So why does your calendar say otherwise?
But what if that chase is stealing your time?
What if meaning isn't found, but lived, hour by hour?
You know what matters.
So why does your calendar say otherwise?
Chasing purpose can turn into a full-time job.
You forget to enjoy your time.
Even when you know what matters, your calendar says otherwise.
So ask yourself: is your time spent or stolen?
Start there.
You forget to enjoy your time.
Even when you know what matters, your calendar says otherwise.
So ask yourself: is your time spent or stolen?
Start there.
February 3, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Chasing purpose can turn into a full-time job.
You forget to enjoy your time.
Even when you know what matters, your calendar says otherwise.
So ask yourself: is your time spent or stolen?
Start there.
You forget to enjoy your time.
Even when you know what matters, your calendar says otherwise.
So ask yourself: is your time spent or stolen?
Start there.
You say purpose matters.
But you spend your day chasing things you don’t enjoy.
You know what’s important.
But your calendar tells a different story.
What if you stopped searching and started living?
But you spend your day chasing things you don’t enjoy.
You know what’s important.
But your calendar tells a different story.
What if you stopped searching and started living?
January 30, 2026 at 8:51 PM
You say purpose matters.
But you spend your day chasing things you don’t enjoy.
You know what’s important.
But your calendar tells a different story.
What if you stopped searching and started living?
But you spend your day chasing things you don’t enjoy.
You know what’s important.
But your calendar tells a different story.
What if you stopped searching and started living?
Chasing purpose can turn into a trap.
You spend more time thinking than living.
Even when you know what matters, your habits don't shift.
What if you dropped the search and used your time better?
Start with one hour today.
You spend more time thinking than living.
Even when you know what matters, your habits don't shift.
What if you dropped the search and used your time better?
Start with one hour today.
January 30, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Chasing purpose can turn into a trap.
You spend more time thinking than living.
Even when you know what matters, your habits don't shift.
What if you dropped the search and used your time better?
Start with one hour today.
You spend more time thinking than living.
Even when you know what matters, your habits don't shift.
What if you dropped the search and used your time better?
Start with one hour today.
You know your values.
But your calendar doesn’t reflect them.
You chase purpose and still feel behind.
Maybe purpose turned into another to-do list.
What if you focused on enjoying your time instead?
But your calendar doesn’t reflect them.
You chase purpose and still feel behind.
Maybe purpose turned into another to-do list.
What if you focused on enjoying your time instead?
January 29, 2026 at 8:32 PM
You know your values.
But your calendar doesn’t reflect them.
You chase purpose and still feel behind.
Maybe purpose turned into another to-do list.
What if you focused on enjoying your time instead?
But your calendar doesn’t reflect them.
You chase purpose and still feel behind.
Maybe purpose turned into another to-do list.
What if you focused on enjoying your time instead?