Challenge 4: Activities 21-27
I think I missed a few days after Day 18 (Thursday) when I did three activities (18-20) and learned about the Edamame Threat. Day 19: I was home with a sick boy, so the thing I had booked to do that day didn’t happen. I had to reschedule. Day...
Challenge 4: Facing Fear Days 15-22
In this challenge I’ve gradually been pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone, so most of my activities have been pretty low on the fear-ometer. A couple of times I’ve tried to do something a bit more scary and haven’t taken the opportunity presented quite as far as I...
Fix what bugs you – week 1
It’s week 1 of my “fix what bugs you” challenge. The aim of this challenge is to work within my “circle of influence” for an entire month and not to let myself get irritated or bugged about things I have no control over. If something that I can do something...
Challenge 4: Facing Fear – Days 8-14
I’m not going to write about everything I do this month, but I have done something outside my comfort zone every day this week. Some weren’t very far out, baby steps, so I think maybe i need to start ramping it up a bit in the second half of...
On contemplating death: Book 21/24
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Arianna Huffington (2014) Before I read this book, I knew of Arianna Huffington in connection with the Huffington Post, but that’s about all. I found out more about her on Gretchen Rubin’s...
Evening routines: day 29
The evening routine challenge is just about over. Here’s Day 5 of the Asian Efficiency evening routine challenge. It addresses a key issue that your routine needs to help you stick to it: Your why. One of the reasons a lot of habits don’t stick is because you don’t...
Challenge 3: Evening rituals – day 22
Day three of the Asian Efficiency Evening Rituals Challenge is to track your rituals. Gretchen Rubin discusses habit tracking in what she calls the Strategy of Monitoring in her book Better than Before. She says: “Monitoring has an almost uncanny power. It doesn’t require change, but it often leads to change,...
Growth mindset: day 29/30
Also Book 20/24: Jump: A Journey into the Mind of a Champion, by Lydia Lassila and Andrew Clarke. One of the exercises in Carol Dweck’s book Mindset is to find out about the effort that your “hero” put into their accomplishments, rather than assuming they are someone with extraordinary...
Stepping on the cracks: Day 45
If you’ve been following my Travelpod blog, you’ll know that we’ve just got back from a family holiday in Victoria and South Australia. As you might have suspected, my attempt to holiday-proof my routines and continue the Stepping on the Cracks project was a spectacular failure. I ate more,...
30 days of growth mindset: day 10
Alright, after a thousand posts on the theory of growth mindset, it’s time to share some of my daily learnings since I started this 30-day challenge. One of the things I’ve been doing since about December last year has been to write in my journal at least one thing...