prioritization
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Wrong Decision Alert
Dear Conscience, When there’s so many things to get done, I have a problem with prioritization. I am quite bad at prioritizing to start with, but now it becomes just almost impossible. Everything seems important, I can’t tell what’s more urgent, I can’t tell what will take more or less time, and I just want Continue reading
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Permanently Stuck in Backlog
Dear Conscience, I’m delayed on so many things, and all of them seem either burning, or at least weighing on me. So I try to get to a clean slate by clearing this backlog. But it never clears. New things pop up, and somehow this backlog grows more quickly than it shrinks, and I never Continue reading
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I’m Not Ready for Decluttering
Dear Conscience, I do live in a mess, I really do. And it does create obstacles in my daily life. But I realized that I have more urgent messes, and that decluttering needs a dedicated and at least semi-peaceful mind, at least in my case. While my pants are on fire from much more consequential 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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Daily Prioritization
So, the Tuesday theme is time. A limited and irretrievable resource, ultimately the most precious any one of us has. And yet, I tend to treat it as limitless. As I mentioned earlier, I need a big shift in my relationship with time. But let’s start small, by practicing the skill of prioritizing on a 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 