Friday
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TGIF
Dear Conscience, It is Friday. I am ending the work week feeling slightly more accomplished than usually. But my focus today was wavering. And while thinking through what was causing this urge to procrastinate, I realized that it was Friday. Friday was causing it. Friday is rarely a deadline. Often I feel that emails sent Continue reading
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Getting Back on Track
Ok, today is the day of perseverance, so a good day to tackle some of the backlog, despite ongoing sleep deprivation. My focus is still on sleep, in a sense that it is non negotiable that I stick with my plan and routine to improve my daughter’s sleep. That currently makes my nights even more Continue reading
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Friday: Perseverance
Not sure if I picked the right word for my Friday concept. But basically, I need some focused time to do some future-proofing. This means several things: remain flexible and adaptable as things change, keeping up with technology, staying employable, mitigating disaster scenarios, and most acutely, set up my financial future for old age. I’ve 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 