routine
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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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Sleep Rhythm and Midnight Habits
Dear Conscience, I am rethinking my evening and night planning, so as to take into account my ”sleepiness waves”. Basically I would like to have an evening routine, and my intention is for it to happen after I put my daughter to sleep. However, often I get sleepy and fall asleep together with her. I’ve tried Continue reading
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Evening Showers
Dear Conscience, I am getting better at not succumbing to the lure of my phone through most of the day. The evening, that little time gap between my daughter going to sleep and me going to sleep, is when my willpower wears off, and I waste that precious time online. Instead, I should wind down Continue reading
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Start Right
Dear Conscience, I am in a relatively productive mode, because I am a day before a large important event I’ve been preparing for. I am not as prepared as I’d like to be, because of course I didn’t start with the preparation as early as I should have. But I did better the last few Continue reading
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How to Seize the Morning?
Dear Conscience, My mornings are where all problems start. Ironically, I am a morning person, I think. I wake up (relatively) early. Not 5am, but also not 9am. I like daytime. I like having the morning be slow. But then it is almost like my little cocoon protecting me from the real world, and I Continue reading
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Start the Day Plan
Dear Conscience, I didn’t exactly jump start the morning, but I did pack one suitcase for the trip. So not nothing. I didn’t have a precise and fully encompassing plan. I needed to get work done on my laptop yesterday, which I was delaying, so I decided my morning should start by opening the laptop, 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 