Week 24/2021: rocket man
Week of 14 June 2021 What did I want to do better this week? Last week I said I wanted to focus on sleep and just sleep. I’d been creeping my shutdown time past 10.15 and not leaving enough time to wind down before my 10.30 bedtime. With a...
Week 22/2021: sunrises and crackers
Week 22/2021: week of 31 May I didn’t achieve a bunch of things this week, but I think I learned a lot. 21 for 2021 update Vegetable of the week (thing 2) Thing 2 is to choose a different vegetable every week from the book In Praise of Veg...
21 for 2021: another thing done
Week 20/2021. I cooked celery soup and finished updating my resume. ...
21 for 2021: week 11
Week 11/2021: week of 15 March 2021 21 for 2021 update I’ve been working on several of the chapters of the Change Journal (thing 4) in fits and starts. In the habits chapter, I finished 66 consecutive days of yoga stretches and am continuing with the pre-work routine (thing 20)...
21 for 2021: Week 4 update
21 for 2021 update I did a bit more work on my blog this week (thing 13) and posted the second part of my series reflecting on blogging for ten years. This includes re-posting a post from each month of my first year over the next few weeks as...
Back to the future part 2
Continued from part 1, in which I write about the origins of this blog in 2011. After blogging every day in 2011 and then limping through 2012, I tried to reignite the blog in 2013 because I did enjoy blogging and interacting with the people who read it and...
21 for 2021: week 2
Week 2/2021: week of 11 January I’m currently working through chapters 7 and 8 of the Change Journal (thing 4). Chapter 7 is about trying to do things that you want to become new habits for 66 days. I’m working on two at the moment: the morning pre-work routine...
2020 in review
Susannah Conway’s Unravel Your Year 2021 workbook asks you to describe the year just gone by in three words. It’s left open to you how you interpret this: you could, I imagine, choose three words that describe the year from a global perspective, from a personal perspective or anywhere...
20 for 2020: Week 51
Week of 14 December 2020 My 20 for 2020 list. What did I want to do better this week?I wanted to track how many times I mindlessly picked up my phone and scrolled through stuff for no reason. So, how did that go then?I forgot. Again. Also, to be...
20 for 2020: week 48
Week of 23 November 2020 My 20 for 2020 list. What did I want to do better this week?I wanted to stop looking at my phone in moments between activities and do some kind of movement instead. So, how did that go then?Probably not so well. The phone’s in...