Category: personal challenges

20 for 2020: week 11

Week of 9 March My 20 for 2020 list. Monday was a public holiday (yay) so I let myself sleep in a bit (which is code for lying in bed and thinking about how great it feels not to wake up slightly hungover because I am into week two...

20 for 2020: week 10

Week of 2 March My 20 for 2020 list. On Monday, I started my alcohol-free month (thing 5). I did it in March last year as part of 19 for 2019 and decided to repeat it this year. A few weeks ago I came across The Alcohol Experiment by...

The strategy of monitoring

If you’re familiar with Gretchen Rubin’s work, you may know about her Four Tendencies framework. This is a framework that attempts to explain how people respond to expectations and why strategies that work brilliantly for some people (such as having an accountability buddy) don’t work at all for others....

20 for 2020: week 9

My 20 for 2020 list. Week of 24 February  For my uni course (thing 8), I have five weeks to undertake a project to apply some of the things I’ve learned in the unit to my workplace. There was lots to think about from last week’s workshop and I’ve come...

20 for 2020: week 8

Week of 17 February  I finally posted my 20 for 2020 list here. It’s only taken eight weeks! This week was all about uni (thing 8). I went to a three-day workshop to go through the material for this unit, which, after all the self-analysis I did for the assignment,...

20 for 2020: week 7

Week of 10 February After two intense days of editing my uni assignment last weekend, I was grateful for a public holiday on Monday to recover. Kramstable and I were home and we took advantage of the space I’d made to set up the studio equipment (thing 11) and find...

20 for 2020: week 6

Week of 3 February  School went back this week. I had the first two days off with Kramstable before I went back to work and he went back to school. I always find January a bit unsettling because there’s no real routine. I work longer hours at the start of...

20 for 2020: week 5

Week of 27 January I was on leave this week and fully expected to spend it hanging out with Kramstable, doing some work on my uni course, and working on some of my photo projects. I didn’t anticipate that I would be spending a lot of the week dealing...

20 for 2020: week 4

Week of 20 January There’s not a lot to report on this week. I went to work and had two days off that were largely taken up with family matters, a big event on Saturday and a long bike ride and some study on Sunday. It means I didn’t...

20 for 2020: week 3

Week of 13 January 2020 This was my last full week of work before school goes back so I am rather looking forward to some time off next week. This week, I rang the hearing centre and booked a hearing test (thing 16). They didn’t have any appointment for...