Week 12/2022: Schedules suck
Week of 21 March 2022 Schedules suck This week I went to one of TAFE’s workshops on adult literacy tutoring that they’ve been running as an introduction to the literacy and numeracy course I’m doing. Yes, I’m doing it a bit backwards because it’s meant to be a taster...
The INTP thing
This is a fairly detailed post about my Myers Briggs Type Indicator (aka MBTI) type and what I’ve learned about this tool. I’m writing it as background to some posts coming up in the next couple of weeks. I know this isn’t everyone’s thing but I felt it was...
Week 10/2022: Much to-do about to-do apps
Week of 7 March 2022 Much to-do about to-do apps What did I want to do this week? Study: TAFE work (catch up on topic 2, complete topic 3 and make lists of specific things I need to remember) Personal: Finish Cosmic Calibration Personal: Finish the Matt Black photography...
Week 09/2022: Digging too deeply
Week of 28 February 2022 Making progress and digging around What did I want to do this week? Here’s a sweet snapshot of what I wanted to get done this week. Catch up on my TAFE work. Review the feedback from the work event and summarise the outcomes. Capture...
Week 08/2022: A busy week
Week of 21 February 2022 A busy week What did I want to do this week? Week 3’s TAFE work (thing 8) Mindspot (thing 1) Work through more lessons from Cosmic Calibration (thing 22) Sort out my online writing support group Get through the event I’m organising for work...
Week 06/2022: Back to work
Week of 7 February 2022 Back to work This week it was time to say goodbye to my casual days at home. School went back on Wednesday, I went back to work and it was the first week of my TAFE course (thing 8). My actions for this week...
Week 05/2022: Getting unstuck
Week of 31 January 2022 Getting unstuck What did I want to do this week? My actions for this week were to Finalise my weekly review routine and do it on Sunday morning Identify actions for focus areas I want to work on in February Keep building my “deep...
Week 03/2022: The list is done!
Week of 17 January 2022 My 22 for 2022 list This is week three of 2022 and I’m still taking my own advice and settling in to the year, working out what I want to achieve this year and what I want to focus my attention on. I’m finding...
Deep work
Deep Work: what I learned Cal Newport has a massive following in the productivity world. A computer science professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC, Cal started writing study advice for students in the mid 2000s and started blogging on the subject on 2007. Since then, he has written...
Settling on a word for 2022
Week 01/2022: Week of 3 January 2022 A new start? I know I said I think new year is a lot of hype and an excuse to make well-intentioned but ultimately doomed hopes for a better 2022 as the shitshow that is the covid pandemic and the increasing pace...