Hello Lovely Human!

I am so glad that you found your way here.

In this space you can also find out more about the Human Imagination Project, Eleven Minutes to Mars, The Quest Improvisation for Transformation, the Museum of the Ordinary Extraordinary and more. You can also subscribe to our perhaps eponymous newsletter: The Ordinary Extraordinary or Squirrel. Squirrel. We are not sure what we are calling it yet.

About The Ordinary Extraordinary

The Ordinary Extraordinary is a space for people who want to reclaim their time, attention, and imagination so that they can re-connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in-between.

About Squirrel. Squirrel.

Maybe the know the joke about being distracted...you are like a dog seeing a squirrel and can focus on NOTHING ELSE BUT SQUIRREL. SQUIRREL. To put it another way, we on a Mission to Rescue Human Attention from the Trash Heap of Overwhelm.

We are still deciding about the name...what that says about our own attention, we are not sure, but let's continue.

The Sorry State of Human Attention

Here is the thing, our attention is in a perilous state. There are so many incessant demands on our time and attention, that a sense of overwhelm, can be a constant. The challenge is that attention is the source material of our experience. Thus, the quality of our attention has a direct impact on the quality of our life. And yet, our attention is increasingly compromised. We are flooded with grim statistics about the sorry state of human attention. This collective degradation impacts, not only our ability to be present for our own life and the lives of others, it corrupts our very experience of time. Because there is always something else we should be doing, it can be nary impossible to truly focus on what it is you actually are doing. When our attention wanders in unwanted ways, we can fail to appreciate the ordinary and totally miss the extraordinary. This wandering attention distorts not only the experience of our every day, the quality of our very existence.

It’s Not Time Management: It’s Time Re-imaginment

We want to rescue human time and attention from the trash heap of overwhelm. We want to help people make time matter. It’s not enough to manage our time and attention, we need to re-imagine it.

Our mantra and method is quite simple. Change your attention. Change your time. Change your life. That simple formula is at the heart of time re-imaginement.

Why the Ordinary Extraordinary

When our time, attention, and imagination are in alignment, that helps us connect to the magic of the ordinary, the extraordinary and everything in-between. It helps is connect to the timefulness of time and, by improving the quality of our intention, improves the quality of our lives.

You might not be old enough to remember getting magazines delivered, or maybe you still get magazines delivered, but there is that moment of excitement when it would arrive, then another when opening it up, and yet another diving into the magazine itself. We want to replicate that happy experience AND we want to provide engaging, transformative content, created to help you get more intention from your attention.

The weekly newsletter goes out to everyone, but you’ll also get exclusive, additional content including:

Each issue is packed full of things worthy of your attention (at least that is the hope) that might include:

Eleven Minutes to… We call these time re-imaginement tools. Created to be completed in eleven minutes or less, these tools will help you re-imagine your relationship with time, attention, and intention, so you can be more present in your own life and the lives of others.
Tiny Time Rants, where we tackle temporal challenges and try to get to the crux of why the are a problem.
Questlettes: Tiny experiments to help you cultivate the improvisational mindscape. Yeah, that is as woo-woo as it sounds.
We write about ordinary people doing extraordinary things, extraordinary people doing ordinary things and ordinary people doing ordinary things.

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