Micro Chores
Every day and every week we all have various chores to complete. Sometimes they are routine and have been carried out for years, if not a lifetime. Brushing your teeth and general hygiene can be done with little thought and in fact can provide a relaxing break to the stress filled chores that can clog our calendar. They take more than 2 minutes to complete but are required to be performed frequently. Some are weekly chores such as taking the garbage out or mowing the (Lawn) weeds.)
A new chore has cropped up in the past few years that requires little effort, or time, to complete but requires more innovative thoughts. The Status update. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Woof and other social media require the user to think up something clever or semi-important and compose a well crafted message with limited character counts. The Micro Chore exists only because we want to know what important or mundane thoughts are running through your head. The reader gets a little insight into your mind and after some time can learn what make you tick. Are you watching the game? Thinking about dinner? Just completed a 26 mile marathon? We need to know about that and you need to pause and compose a micro paragraph about your experience. I have taken up and dropped my Twitter habit just because the breadth is wide but the depth is shallow. Let’s try and live a micro chore free week. See if you can do it.
