Category: habits

21 for 2021: week 9

Week 09/2021: week of 1 March 21 for 2021 update Last year, one of my 20 for 2020 things was to have a month without alcohol. I started that on 2 March 20202 and I haven’t had a drink since then. So this week marked the one-year anniversary of my...

21 for 2021: week 8

Week 08/2021: week of 22 February 21 for 2021 update I’m working through the Habits chapter of the Change Journal (thing 4). I’m working on doing yoga stretches every day, the pre-work routine every work day, and this week I started the end of work ritual, which feels as...

21 for 2021: week 7

Week 7/2021: week of 15 February 2021 21 for 2021 updateThis was my first “normal” week for about a month. “Normal” as in school was back and I was at work all week. None of those annoying public holidays to muck up my routine. Ha. My first thing this...

21 for 2021: week 6

Week 06/2021: week of 8 February21 for 2021 update I did a thing! I had my exercise physiologist appointment (thing 1) on Friday. I didn’t really know what to expect, walking into a gym to meet someone who I imagined would be super fit and super motivated and having...

21 for 2021: week 5

Week 5/2021: Week of 1 February 21 for 2021 update This week was a weird week. I had Monday and Tuesday off work before school went back on Wednesday, two days back in the office and then a day working at home. I’ve been doing some of my workmate’s...

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 3

Week 3/21: week of 18 January 2021 21 for 2021 update Some time ago I was chatting to my GP about getting older and how I want to make sure I stay as healthy as I can for as long as I can. I said one thing I’ve always...

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...

21 for 2021: week 1

Week 1/2021: week of 4 January 2021My 21 for 2021 list.  This was my first week back at work so I decided it was as good a time as any to get back into the pre-work planning routine from the LifeHack program (thing 20). The video suggests following the...