productivity
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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
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Groundhog Day
Dear Conscience Today is the 2nd of February – the Groundhog Day. I only watched the movie once, and a long time ago, so I don’t fully remember its groove, but today does feel very reminiscent of it. It’s a cold but sunny day outside, but I am stuck in a loop of government bureaucracy. Continue reading
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Piloting the 3-3-3 Method for Getting Things Done
Dear Conscience, Today I implemented the 3+3+3 method for the first time. I did rush a bit and only kicked off the focus time with about a lo-minute delay. But I did it. And then at noon I stopped with the focus task, and stuck to doing the other tasks on the list. I could Continue reading
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The Focus Intention
Dear Conscience, Time-blocking sounds great in theory, but has not been possible for me. I simply never took my calendar entries seriously unless they involve other people. I want to block off 3 hours every workday for focused works. From 9am to noon. I’m doing my best to take it seriously this time. I wrote Continue reading
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To-Do, but With Focus
Dear Conscience, I am still experimenting with this to-do list effort. On one hand, I want to just develop a habit of keeping and managing a to-do list, even if I am not very good at checking things off yet. On the other, it feels pointless just transferring the same tastes to next day, without Continue reading
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Stumbling and Ironing
Dear Conscience, As I stated yesterday, the first week of a habit introduction is crucial, and needs full attention. Yesterday I stumbled, by falling asleep together with my daughter. So I didn’t have any evening routine when I’d usually put my phone away and then handle my to-do list. Sleep is important when I do Continue reading
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Make or Break Period
Dear Conscience, I think that an important element in a quest to introduce a desired behavior is to initially really focus on it intensely in the first week. The failure rate in the first 10 days or so is very high (after about 3 days of initial excitement about a new habit). We know well Continue reading
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No Judgment, Just Habit
Dear Conscience, In order to successfully integrate a practice of managing a daily to-do list, it has to become a habit. In thinking this throng, I realized that my so-called 3 “basic” or “core” habits are more about following rules I set out for myself, instead of the “micro” “tiny” or “atomic” habits recommended more 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 