Category: habits

Week of 4 February 2019 This was a big week. Not only was it back to school week but it was Kramstable’s first week of high school. Yes, I am the parent of a high school student! Where has that time gone? It doesn’t seem like eight years ago...

In 2013, inspired by another blogger, I made a list of 100 things I wanted to do that year. I posted the list on a page on my blog and periodically updated it and crossed things off I’d achieved. By the end of 2013, there were a lot of...

I posted a different version of this post on instagram this morning with a non-sunrise picture of the beach. You can see a bird if you really look. I was going to do it a couple of days ago, before the end of 2017, but I’m not good on...

Today I picked up a copy of the free magazine published by Penguin Books, underline, which had a feature on a book called Silence: In the Age of Noise by the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge. I had never heard of Mr Kagge before today, but according to the magazine,...

So this blog-as-accountability-partner thing isn’t working out as well as I’d hoped and I’ve missed several weeks. The several weeks don’t have much going for them. All those 6/7 and 7/7 weeks seem like a lifetime away, and most of the healthy habits I’ve been trying so hard to...

Here are last week’s results. 8 glasses of water 4/7 12,000 steps 7/7 10 min morning walk 7/7 Meditate 7/7 Breathing (3x a day) 2/7 No sugar 6/7 No alcohol (M-T) 3/4 Screens off 9.30 (M-T) 3/4 Bed by 10.00 (M-T) 3/4 Bed by 11.00 (F-S) 1/3 Daily gratitude...

After saying I was going to post my habit tracker once a week, I promptly forgot the next week. Tsk. So here are the next two weeks of my faltering progress: 21-Aug 28-Aug 8 glasses of water 7/7 7/7 12,000 steps 7/7 7/7 10 min morning walk 6/7 7/7...

Since my last post seven weeks ago – I can’t believe it’s been that long – I’ve been quietly plugging away at maintaining some habits that are slightly healthy. The no sugar plan is going well. Apart from a dash of maple syrup on my Sunday morning pancakes, which...

Today is Day 29 of my 30-day reset of not eating sugary snacks and treats. It’s gone surprisingly well. When I started my mission get back into my no sugar lifestyle, I imagined that I’d slowly cut out one day’s treat over a period of several weeks and that...

About this time last year I started the ambitious project of undertaking a series of 30-day challenges. It kind of worked and kind of didn’t. Some of the challenges were ideally suited to a 30-day format: 30 days of no alcohol, for example. This was because I had a...