Category: productivity

Week of 16 September 2024 I went to see Kramstable’s play twice this week. The shape of mind and meditations The Shape of Mind This week Kramstable was in a production with his outside school drama class at Helen O’Grady Drama Academy. He’s been with them since he was...

Week of 27 May 2024 Hacking and journalling There were two highlights this week, both of which meant I had to drive a car to get there. (I dislike driving and avoid it wherever possible so you’ll know if I drive somewhere I either have no choice or it’s...

Week of 4 March 2024 At the risk of sounding like I’m turning my learnings from Four Thousand Weeks into a project, I tried one of the strategies in the book this week. Another 4,000 weeks post Stop clearing the decks (part 1) Not clearing the decks is one...

Week of 26 February 2024 The last official week of summer included a ‘leap day’, which passed by un-noticed. Sunday was an incredibly windy day and I stayed inside all day. By mid-afternoon I was sick of being stuck inside and went for a walk to the beach. It...

Week of 1 January 2024 Annual review: The week after the in-between week I was meant to go back to work this week. To clarify, I was supposed to have last week off, a public holiday on Monday, another day off on Tuesday, and go back to work on...

Week of 3 April 2023 A slow down This week I was going to try out Laura Vanderkam’s idea of creating backup slots in my week to allow for unexpected things that might derail me. I didn’t end up doing it because Friday was a holiday and I didn’t...

Week of 13 March 2023 Three times a week is a habit part 3 I wrote about Laura Vanderkam’s idea that “three times a week is a habit” earlier in the week. This approach is based on her view that people often don’t do “daily habits” seven days a...

Tranquility by Tuesday Three times a week is a habit: Part 2 Last time, I talked about Laura Vanderkam’s wonderfully freeing idea that rather than beating yourself up because you can’t do [xyz wonderful thing] every single day so you don’t do it at all, by doing it three...

Week of 6 March 2023 Tranquility by Tuesday: Chapter 5 Three times a week is a habit. As well as James Clear’s Atomic Habits, which I’ve been writing about in the last few weeks, I’ve been working through Laura Vanderkam’s book Tranquility By Tuesday. Planning on Friday, which I...