Tuesday
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Time for a Mental Health Break
I am not choosing to do this. I have to. I hope sleep will help. I also hope this is one of those “things get worse before they get better”, rather than this whole ‘project’ being yet another attempt at improving myself that will end up in the recycle bin. I really need this to Continue reading
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Time May Be My Ultimate Nemesis
It flies and flies and doesn’t stop, no matter how much I need a break. It should be also my main motivator to act. But threat is not a good motivation for me, it’s just pressure. And I don’t handle pressure graciously. I need to find a friendlier perspective towards time. I know it helps Continue reading
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Hard Line Between Awake Time and Sleep Time
On this Tuesday, when my focus is time, I am faced with having to implement a very basic concept: separate the part of the day when I’m in bed sleeping, and when I’m awake doing things. I am stuck in a very unsustainable dynamic, where my daughter cannot sleep unless she is in physical contact Continue reading
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Daily Prioritization
So, the Tuesday theme is time. A limited and irretrievable resource, ultimately the most precious any one of us has. And yet, I tend to treat it as limitless. As I mentioned earlier, I need a big shift in my relationship with time. But let’s start small, by practicing the skill of prioritizing on a Continue reading
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Tuesday: Time
I am not on good terms with time. I don’t like that it passes. I spend more time stressing about something in the future or in the past, rather than being present in the moment. I am a procrastinator. I don’t have regular routines that are enjoyable or helpful. I estimate time badly. I want 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 