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Start the Day With 90 Minutes of Focus
Dear Conscience, I am trying to gradually implement the advice of neuroscientist Andrew Huberman into my morning routine. Today I made my best attempt at adding 90 minutes of focused cognitive work early in the morning. I am pretty satisfied. I got up at 6:35 AM, and again took a little too long to get Continue reading
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The Cognitive Work – Implementation Intention
Dear Conscience, To improve the likelihood of succeeding in implementing the element number five from my Huberman plan (The Cognitive Work), I want to set out a detailed intention. Sincerely,B. Continue reading
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Piloting the 3-3-3 Method for Getting Things Done
Dear Conscience, Today I implemented the 3+3+3 method for the first time. I did rush a bit and only kicked off the focus time with about a lo-minute delay. But I did it. And then at noon I stopped with the focus task, and stuck to doing the other tasks on the list. I could Continue reading
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The Focus Intention
Dear Conscience, Time-blocking sounds great in theory, but has not been possible for me. I simply never took my calendar entries seriously unless they involve other people. I want to block off 3 hours every workday for focused works. From 9am to noon. I’m doing my best to take it seriously this time. I wrote Continue reading
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To-Do, but With Focus
Dear Conscience, I am still experimenting with this to-do list effort. On one hand, I want to just develop a habit of keeping and managing a to-do list, even if I am not very good at checking things off yet. On the other, it feels pointless just transferring the same tastes to next day, without Continue reading
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I’m Very Close to Completely Breaking With My Phone Addiction
Dear Conscience, My 3rd and final core habit is under review today: the one about limiting my phone use. I’ve tinkered with this one a lot. Finally I realized that more guardrails is better. Now my phone is in “focus mode” 24/7, with even the browser locked unless I need it for justified reasons. I 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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The Plan to Limit My Phone Use
Dear Conscience, I’m still working out the details of how to implement this goal of using my phone as a tool, rather than a passtime. I want my usage to be very limited, but without downgrading my use to a dumb-phone experience. 1. I have some utility apps that are always allowed: maps, email, messing, Continue reading
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Phone as a Tool, Not a Passtime
Dear Conscience. It’s so easy to fall back into old habits. A disruption like a trip or a disease, seems like a justified temporary excuse to leave all effort and consistency aside. The problem is, once the “excuse” is gone, the old habits are back. Like they never left. Annoying that it doesn’t take 66 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 