time management
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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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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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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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Time
Dear Conscience, Kicking the final week of the year off with the Monday theme: TIME. What’s up? This is what most of my focus was over the past 6 months or so. I realized that my inability to use my time well would prevent me from achieving anything else in any sphere of life. What Continue reading
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Pockets of Time
Dear Conscience, Today was a little better, having started respecting my basic rules again, even while traveling. And I hope to keep it up during the rest of my trip. Here’s what I need to keep in mind, so that my mind doesn’t play a trick on me: If I can’t seize these pockets of Continue reading
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Stretching the Canvas
Dear Conscience, When I started writing here, my expectations on where I would be by the time this year of 2023 rolls towards its end were clearly too ambitious. Even though I thought that they were quite tame. I had defined 7 spheres of life to focus on, and I had hoped to tackle at Continue reading
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A Squeeze
Dear Conscience, A floodgate of new to-dos just opened, and my time available became permanently smaller. Shift in the opposite direction of what one would hope. I’m getting squeezed from all sides. I have to think that now this will force me to get my act together, and that the new-found willpower will compensate for 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 