Week 38/2021: a bird’s life
Week of 20 September 2021 What did I want to do better this week? Be more mindful and observant, and start to develop my capacity to explore. So, how did that go? I suppose like any new habit, paying more attention will take time to ingrain itself. But I...
Week 31/2021: walking
Week 31/2021: Week of 2 August 2021 What did I want to do better this week? This week I was trying to get myself out of bed early enough to go for a walk. I set the target of doing it for five mornings, because I leave the house...
20 for 2020: week 32
Week of 3 August My 20 for 2020 list. We got the reading material for our final unit of the uni course (thing 8) on Monday. I spent a couple of hours organising the material and making a study plan so I know what I need to do over...
Challenge 5: Fix what bugs you
This challenge has its origin in several places. I’ve been reading Stephen Covey’s book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, in which he talks of the circle of concern (which is everything we care about) and the circle of influence (which is everything we have control over or...
12 of 12 September 2015
A boring Saturday at home. The first day of my “let’s try getting up earlier and doing some things I have to do in the morning instead of lazing around and then having to rush out the door at swimming time because I couldn’t be bothered having breakfast and...
P365 – Day 311 – I can see the moon
I love the fact it’s still light when I get home from work. Yay for spring! Yay for daylight savings!...
P365 – Day 237 – I did not speak too soon
I did not speak too soon . . . I did not speak too soon . . . So OK, after a glorious morning, at lunchtime the weather decided it was winter time again, the temperature dropped by several degrees, the wind started blowing (up to 109 km per...
P365 – Day 236 – spring has sprung
Last week one of my workmates was saying how lovely it was that spring was finally here: the weather was warming up, the spring bulbs were in bloom and it was still light at 5 pm. Another colleague insisted that it wasn’t spring yet; that there was still two...
P365 – Day 227 – it’s getting ligher
This morning, as I left the house at 6.30, I noticed it wasn’t pitch black like it has been over the past few months. The faint glimmer of light made it ever so slightly more pleasant to be heading off to work so early. Fast forward to this evening...
P365 – Day 223 – spring is nearly here!
It’s still pretty wintery, but the days are slowly getting longer, it’s not quite as cold in the mornings and there are signs of life starting to emerge. No doubt we’re in for one or two more cold snaps before we say goodbye to winter (and then, of course,...