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Wrong Decision Alert
Dear Conscience, When there’s so many things to get done, I have a problem with prioritization. I am quite bad at prioritizing to start with, but now it becomes just almost impossible. Everything seems important, I can’t tell what’s more urgent, I can’t tell what will take more or less time, and I just want Continue reading
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Can’t Take Time Off From a Lifestyle
Dear Conscience, Let me tell you, I like taking breaks. I’ll make any excuse to justify trading a break. And what’s a better excuse than a vacation? Even after I decided to use this vacation to keep at it, I excused my lack of discipline as a “break”. But a lifestyle is a habit. And Continue reading
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Time for a Mental Health Break
I am not choosing to do this. I have to. I hope sleep will help. I also hope this is one of those “things get worse before they get better”, rather than this whole ‘project’ being yet another attempt at improving myself that will end up in the recycle bin. I really need this to Continue reading
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Sneaking Rest Into My Day
Today was going to be overly busy either way, but then also things went downhill immediately in the morning, when I realized I dropped the ball on preparing some paperwork for an appointment scheduled for today. Crisis mode, and I managed to keep afloat, though barely, and with increasing my to-do backlog again. Yet, I 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 