productivity
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Crawl Out of a Lull
Dear Conscience, It is time to slowly but steadily get out of my lull. But the trick is to do it without putting so much pressure on myself that I break down under it again. Yesterday I did a very basic brain dump of all sorts of to-dos. Today I didn’t look at the list Continue reading
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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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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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Take It Easy but Not Lazy
Dear Conscience, I am taking it easy today. I am still getting over this cold or flu, and I want to use the weekend to recover, in hopes that I don’t carry this sickness over into next week. At the same time, a day taken easy doesn’t have to be a lazy day. My old Continue reading
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Scratch That!
Dear Conscience, I found my pen! The one for my digital notebook that I thought I lost for most of today. I was CONVINCED that I had left it, embarrassingly enough, at a McDonalnds (yes, another vice I need to deal with). But it was instead under a couch pillow! I already ordered a replacement, 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
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 