Becoming Bakitza

An aspiring bakitza attempting to slowly take control of her journey


Time

Dear Conscience,

Kicking the final week of the year off with the Monday theme: TIME.

What’s up?

This is what most of my focus was over the past 6 months or so. I realized that my inability to use my time well would prevent me from achieving anything else in any sphere of life.

What have I done to date?

I am happy to report that, even though it’s been a slow road, I’ve largely kicked my phone addiction. That was the biggest thief of my time.

What do I plan to do?

I still need to work on procrastination and planning, but it’s become much easier without the phone addiction sucking my minutes and willpower away for hours on end.

What will I do today?

Today, on the last Monday of the year, I am appropriately writing to you instead of watching a show while my daughter is napping. (Also, we’re visiting family who has Netflix, at home I got rid of that too, another time thief).

After finishing this post, I’ll go and do some planning – for the week, and for early next year. A good way to start the week and the year.

Finally, I want to remind myself that rush stresses me, and that I’m better off doing things slowly, if I want to get them done, and maybe even enjoy the process. Maybe I’ll put clothes to wash, dry and fold them today. Start setting up so that tomorrow I can slowly pack, without rush and stress.

I think I might be ready for moving Time to a weekly focus, after having it as my main focus throughout the past few months. Maybe I got just enough in control of it, that I have the time to start focusing on my life. That is a lovely thought, and a hopeful one before 2024 starts.

Sincerely,

B.



2 responses to “Time”

  1. […] on the other stuff in a beautiful clean space. However, it turned out that without getting my procrastination under control, nothing would get started. And that while I long for a non-messy life, it does not […]

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  2. […] was a good day. Not perfect, but decent. I dipped my toe into my second big theme after Time, and that’s Finances. Even though it wasn’t a graceful planned dip, but more of a […]

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About Me

I got my first nickname when I was 4 years old. It was “bakitza”, which means ‘an old lady’. I’ve always been an old lady on the inside. And as I progress towards being an old lady on the outside too, I want to take control of this journey. To reach the full fledged bakitza level with a peace of mind I always associated with that life stage. I thought it would come on it’s own with age. But now I realize that I have to take control over the mess that my life currently is in order to be a thoroughly satisfied bakitza one day.

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