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Get Going
Dear Conscience, Yesterday I started making a plan for the first week of 2024, but I was very tired, so I continued adding To-Dos today. I definitely need to learn planning and prioritizing better, because my lists quickly get too long and overwhelming. I tend to add more quickly than check off, so I permanently Continue reading
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Prioritize and Deliver
Dear Conscience, on the 3rd day of my 4-day plan to avert disaster, I am not where I should be. Doesn’t help that all of this is coinciding with a bout of insomnia. I am not yet pessimistic, but probably because of my unrealistic perception of how little time I actually have left. I think Continue reading
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Consistent Reasonable Effort
Dear Conscience, I’m glad I sat down yesterday to write out everything I need to do over the next 10 days. It feels less insurmountable. Though a plan calms me down, I shouldn’t get too complacent, because if I don’t fail at planning, I usually fail at implementation of the plan. Today has been OK. Continue reading
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Day Three of New Me
Dear Conscience, I’m checking in. This is day three, we might call it a streak 🙂 In practice, it’s semi-successful. I’ve implemented the phone rules to an extent enough that I did some bear minimum to-do’s which could absolutely not be postponed anymore. Did I make a dent in my backlog? Probably not. I also 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 