2024
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4th Rule – Work
Dear Conscience, The second week of 2024 started. After having concluded that my 3 basic rules are somewhat ingrained now, today is when I have to get serious with my 4th rule — work full days on workdays. Today started shaky, it is 11a.m. and I haven’t really started yet. So I won’t spend too Continue reading
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Up From a Bad Start
Dear Conscience, The first week of 2024 is over, and it wasn’t what I had hoped for it to be. Instead of setting myself up for a good start, I’ve been threading water. But I want to head into next week with a positive attitude, so today I’ll reflect back and give myself some credit. Continue reading
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Reality Check
Dear Conscience, I wanted to start 2024 strong, so I made ambitious plans, completely ignoring the fact that I would be jet-lagged this first week. And not only jet-lagged myself, but also caring for a jet-lagged toddler. My plans don’t involve any self care, don’t assume any weakness, and then reality hits, and I fail. Continue reading
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Start With a Plan
Dear Conscience, It is the first day of the week, and the first day of the year. Seems like the ideal time for a start. Though I am tired, jet lagged, with a jet lagged toddler. So I won’t get much done today, but I can plan out the week. This week is a window Continue reading
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Inspiration
Dear Conscience, We’ve run through the week, and through the year! It’s Sunday, with the theme of Inspiration, just in time to open the door into 2024. What’s up? Inspiration is usually the initial spark, yet I put it at the end. Simply because I don’t have the mind space for it. I’m too worried, Continue reading
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Stairway to 2024
Dear Conscience, What’s done is done. I won’t be home until the New Years. I’ll try to use this time to manage the trip better (for example, unpacking properly instead of living out of a jumbled suitcase mess), use pockets of time to get some things done (to reduce even by a little bit the Continue reading
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Setting My 2024 Self Up for Failure
Dear Conscience, It’s so close to the end of the year, that simply not everything I want to get done, can get done. Even if the conditions were ideal. And they are not. One strategy is to delegate things into next year. I’ve already been resorting to that in part. And I do need to Continue reading
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.
Becoming Bakitza 