What have your experiences been like?
I enjoy doing a lot of the little things associated with Sp-instinct ('cooking', doing chores, planning out meals, carefully selecting foods when grocery shopping, putting money and time to good use, etc.), although I find a lot of the more intensive Sp-related stuff intimidating. The level of engagement that I experience when doing the former could be a Te-fetish thing also, since I often end up doing a lot of that sort of stuff when I'm under stress.
I hate most of that stuff. Anything to do with chores or cleaning....blech. My ISFJ sp mom likes it though.
I don't mind cooking if super fast & easy. I like the idea of trying new recipes, but am not motivated to much.
I've never had money for much decorating, but I've found I like the idea of it more than doing it. I get bored or frustrated quickly with the physical part of putting stuff together (been in my apt 6 months - have not hung so much as one picture).
I DO like clothes & makuep shopping & playing with different looks.
Anyway, being sp-dom, this isn't really anything I'm that into. It's more about personal interests & tastes than chores or home improvement.
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But back to the OP...
Taking care of my so instinct involves
- saying yes to social invites when I'd rather not go because I know I'm getting too isolated (I admit I go with hopes of meeting a potential romantic partner)
- making myself talk to people I don't know at social things, or even people I do know (ie not running out right after a class)
- the news thing, as someone else noted (I usually hear news via other people in conversation); and flipping through a trashy gossip magazine while getting my hair done & feeling smug that I don't recognize most names or faces)
- paying more attention to a group dynamic, trying to see my place it, but usually giving up on having any clear idea
- finding out some development in a group, but also being the last to know, yet not feeling bad, more like impressed I know anything at all
- letting people celebrate stuff for me or acknowledge some achievement of mine. For example, I let my mom throw me grad parties for various graduations except my college one. I do regret it, but in the moment, I just don't value the social significance of it
- going along with some family or religious traditions instead my usual eye-rolling
- making myself call/text friends/family I haven't talked to in a bit, when normally I just fall off the face of the earth & they must call me
- feeble attempts to plan something social, which almost never works (even one-on-one stuff), unless someone else co-ops the plan
EDIT: This is probably more relevant actually
- making real effort to shop or buy from local/independent sources more
- doing volunteer work, which has elements of social ideals behind it (but I admit I'm motivated more by a personal spirituality); quit my full time job to work at home for the flexibility to do more