getting started
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Get Started Now.
Dear Conscience, I am writing to you now from my laptop. I just opened it, and my promise last night was that the first thing I would do after opening the laptop, is to write to you. No checking of news, social media, anything. First writing to you, and use this as the momentum to Continue reading
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Doing Things Slowly vs Procrastinating
Dear Conscience, I stand by my conclusion that I’m most effective when I work slowly. But working slowly is very different from procrastinating. And I have to be strict to impose this distinction. So today, I closed another loophole on my phone. I knew of this vulnerability all along, but had purposefully ignored it until 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 