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Jump-start in the Morning
Dear Conscience, The mornings are an issue. I would like to just enjoy them. But now that I need to push extra hard and decide to use them for the push, I need to actually use them. Today I took one hour to get something done, and I spent it online, because it was before Continue reading
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Framing Time
Dear Conscience, Time is still the bottleneck. It probably is for everybody in a way, as the only truly limited resource. But for us who waste it prodigiously, it becomes the downfall of any other effort in life. I can’t clean my space if I don’t make time for it. I can’t earn money if Continue reading
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Day Three of New Me
Dear Conscience, I’m checking in. This is day three, we might call it a streak 🙂 In practice, it’s semi-successful. I’ve implemented the phone rules to an extent enough that I did some bear minimum to-do’s which could absolutely not be postponed anymore. Did I make a dent in my backlog? Probably not. I also Continue reading
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My Phone Is My Enemy
Dear Conscience, It’s not a new realization that I waste my life on my phone. And I’ve tried weaning off several times, with short-lived success. It’s so much easier to slip back than to wean. This needs a permanent and focused commitment. I’m introducing two basic rules: #1) night time is between 9pm and 7am Continue reading
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My Body Needs Sleep
If you read my post from yesterday, you know I’m going through a period of serious sleep disruption. I don’t sleep, I intermittently nap. It will take some focus to change this, so this topic has temporarily taken over priority over everything else. Conveniently, today’s topic is body, so I’m very much on theme. My Continue reading
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Thursday: Mind
The mind is complicated. Cognitive capacity is one thing that I’ve always cared for. Knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. But without focus or good executive function, it didn’t really take me anywhere. Another side of it is the mindset. How happy we are often has more to do with how our minds perceives our circumstances, than with 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 