morning routine
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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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The Huberman Plan
Dear Conscience, Good morning! It is 7:30 AM, and I am sitting at the only non-smoking cafe in the neighborhood open at this hour. I have started exploring how I might implement elements of the Huberman morning routine into my lifestyle. There we go. I’ve only really implemented number 1 and 2 today. Tomorrow I Continue reading
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Huberman Wife
Dear Conscience, I ran across this ‘Andrew Huberman craze’ online, people trying to implement his science-based habits and routines. I didn’t look his recommendations up in detail, but here are the basic morning routine instructions I jotted down from skimming a youtube video: It does sound appealing to have such a productive morning. I also Continue reading
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Moving the News to Audio
Dear Conscience, A step back to get clarity on why I am failing, despite trying hard, to keep away from (1) scrolling the news on my phone. Or (2) searching the internet for random thoughts (and paranoias). Or (3) sometimes just trying to find random reasons to keep glued to my phone instead of facing Continue reading
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The Morning Does NOT Define the Day
Dear Conscience, this week has been by a mile better than any of the previous ones. I still haven’t achieved a single day of 6 billable hours, but my average this week has been 4.5 hours a day, which is much better than the average of approximately 2 daily billable hours for the whole past 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 