Category: routine

20 for 2020: week 38

Week of 14 September 2020 My 20 for 2020 list. Shiny new shoes What did I want to do better this week? Set myself a stop time for my uni work to give myself some wind down time before I start to get ready for bed. So, how did...

20 for 2020: week 33

Week of 10 August My 20 for 2020 list. What did I want to do better this week? Start packing up at 10.15. Schedule 15 minutes of creative time every day and do it. So how did that go then? That did not go well. By the weekend I...

20 for 2020: week 24

Week of 8 June My 20 for 2020 list. After a weekend where I put off doing any work on my uni course (thing 8) until Monday, which was a public holiday, I succeeded in not doing any work on it at all. Instead, I spent the day writing,...

20 for 2020: week 17

Week 17: week of 20 April My 20 for 2020 list. This was another slow week for my 20 for 2020 list. There are some things I won’t be able to do while we are in death virus lockdown, such as getting my sewing machine fixed (thing 2) and...

20 for 2020: week 14

Week of 30 March My 20 for 2020 list. Things continue to change in the world at a rapid rate as the covid pandemic wreaks havoc across the world. More and more people from my work are working at home as we are told to stay at home unless...

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 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 2

Week two: Week of 6 January Welcome to week two of 20 for 2020. This is the first full week for the year and I’m lucky I still have some time before my uni course starts to concentrate of some of the other tasks, some of which I think...

Bored and Brilliant challenge 4: app addled

Previous posts on the challenge: Bored and Brilliant introduction post Challenge 1 Challenge 2 Challenge 3 An idea came to me for a work thing while I was out walking without my phone. It works! Today was the day to delete the app. The tough day that was coming...