digital balance
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It Starts With Sleep
Dear Conscience,When I try to get back to life after such a big slump as recently, I have to start at the beginning. And the beginning is to get enough sleep. Among the many bad old habits I re-adopted recently, was delaying going to sleep in the evening. Given that I have to wake up Continue reading
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Progress Isn’t Linear
Dear Conscience, I don’t know what to tell you except to repeat that progress isn’t linear. I do still have high hopes for my ‘phone as a tool‘ policy. I didn’t follow it strictly enough today. I didn’t let go completely, this is important. But I did spend more time on my phone than what Continue reading
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Smartphone Is a Time Thief, so I Locked It Up.
Dear Conscience, It is mind-boggling to think and realize how much of this world’s focus, energy and potential is wasted on the smartphone. Not that people didn’t waste time before… But this is on another level. It steals time, and we know this, but we don’t realize how bad it really is. I was actively Continue reading
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Time Might Be Getting Under Control
Dear Conscience, Although I feel overwhelmed, and last night I actually for the first time in a while took my phone over night to look up things I was worrying about, I actually think that the rules I imposed until now are helping me get my time somewhat under control. I start doing things more Continue reading
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Refresher
Dear Conscience, I need a refresher on the rules. I’ve been writing to you every day now for 6 days. I haven’t done much else, but hopefully keeping up with this rule number one left me holding on to a thread of hope that I’ll climb back up. The next step is my second rule: 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 