procrastination
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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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A Slight Mind Shift in the Right Direction
Dear Conscience, I am encouraged today by the repetition of a similar pattern as yesterday. Yes, I feel under the weather still. Yes, I have three and a half unwatched seasons of the Crown at my fingertips. I enjoyed the one episode I watched on mute while rocking my daughter to sleep. But I didn’t Continue reading
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Favorite Tool Missing
Dear Conscience, I did start relying a lot on my digital notebook (Remarkable 2). And today, I lost the pen. I also only realized now in my frantic search for a replacement, that I spent more money than necessary by buying the “official” pen and cover, while many other brands produce functional pens using the Continue reading
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Accountability to My Own Conscience
Dear Conscience, Another sick day. I did get one thing out of the way that only required an email, even though I didn’t even feel like sending that. But one low effort but important thing out of the way. Otherwise, I need to just keep thinking productively and not continue sliding downwards more than this Continue reading
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No Sick Days for the Disease of Procrastination
Dear Conscience, Today my daughter feels a little better, yet I feel a little worse. But to reiterate my realization from yesterday – I wouldn’t feel this guilty and terrified if I had not procrastinated before, while we were not sick. This black hole of anxiety devouring me, is the fear that this sick leave Continue reading
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The Flu – a Surprise or an Excuse?
Dear Conscience, My daughter woke up with a high fever, which of course threw any plans for the day right out the window. It is by coincidence that I was just this morning listening to a podcast episode about time boxing, which claimed that life’s surprises such as a child getting sick are in fact Continue reading
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Course Correction
Dear Conscience, It is not going well. I have been on the phone with government bureaucracy all morning. I want to cry. I have not done anything that I wanted to do. I have not started the week well. I need to course correct, but I am so irritated and on the burst of crying Continue reading
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Navigating Guilty Pleasures
Dear Conscience, today is Sunday, and an opportunity for course correction that I shouldn’t miss. I want to try to implement the 3+3+3 method the whole of next week. This means that today I get to take some of the to-dos off the table, to reduce the pressure to over clutter my to-do list. Here’s 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 