30 days alcohol-free: day 21
All is well. This is probably the longest stretch that I haven’t had alcohol since I was pregnant – in 2006. I’m quite liking feeling tired at a one-digit hour rather than keeping myself a bit wired and staying up until midnight or later. This morning I got out...
30 days growth mindset: Day 1
Day 1 of challenge 2 arrived (yesterday). I wasn’t really sure what 30 days of growth mindset would look like, so I went back to Carol Dweck’s book Mindset and her website, where there’s a quiz you can take to determine whether you have a mostly fixed or mostly...
Challenge 2 – 30 days of growth mindset
I wrote this post several days ago, but have held off on posting it because I’m scared of putting this out there. Also I had intermittent internet over the weekend, so it was difficult to sit down and finish it off, and other things were happening at the same...
30 days alcohol-free: Day 16
I’ve passed the half way mark of 30 days alcohol-free, the first challenge of my #steppingonthecracks project. It’s been easier than I expected. I haven’t really felt much like having a drink, and times when I have I haven’t felt so strongly about it that I’ve had to do...
Book 13/24: Mindset
I’ve skipped a few book posts because this one is important to me starting out my second #steppingonthecracks challenge next week. I had never heard of the growth mindset until recently. A few weeks ago, I saw it mentioned in three unrelated things I was reading, which made me want to find...
30 days alcohol-free: day 11
Day 11 of my 30 days with no alcohol. (I started on 31 May, and it’s 30 days, not #noboozeJune.) So I survived Saturday, a day I’d normally have several drinks, and Sunday, when we had a pub meal with friends. Everyone else was happy because they had a designated...
30 days alcohol-free: day 5
Day 5 (4 June): 30 days alcohol-free is the first of a series of 30-day challenges that will make up my #steppingonthecracks project. I’m starting out with a small habit change that shouldn’t take a lot of time to do, and next week I’ll start getting ready for the first...
#30daychallenges – an introduction
I’ve been doing a lot of reading (for me) this year, listening to podcasts and making notes like there’s no tomorrow, with no clear idea of what I’m going to do with everything that I’ve been learning. I have beautifully organised Evernote notebooks (really) where I’m keeping a lot...