"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

Category: Systems

  • When Life Gets Busy

    When Life Gets Busy

    At the bottom of Elisabeth’s Cool Bloggers Walking Club Week 2 Recap she asked the question: “Do you cut exercise when your schedule gets too full or do you drop something else and if so, what?” I am currently in a period where my schedule has been a little more full than usual. I work…

  • List #35: Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet

    List #35: Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet

    After being away for so much of this year, I was determined to get back into some kind of routine once we were going to be mostly home. I set up a spreadsheet of the things I wanted to do regularly. I know there’s a lot of things on there, but it helps me see…

  • Time Logging August 2025

    Time Logging August 2025

    Nicole recently posted about her time tracking and it made me start thinking about giving it another go myself. Since I’ve been traveling a lot this year, I haven’t really been in a routine. When we got home from the City to Surf race I started using a habit tracker and I thought pairing it…

  • List #32: Five-year Travel Wish List

    List #32: Five-year Travel Wish List

    I had on my 101 Things list to rough out a five-year travel wish list. G and I did it last month and here it is: You can see we did some mind changing and moving things around while we were working on this. A lot of our travel will be focused on G’s World…

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days: 500 Day Check-In

    101 Things in 1001 Days: 500 Day Check-In

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 400 days, I calculated that I was 30.8% complete. Let’s see how I went in the next 100 days … I calculated that I did 4.28% in 100 days, which is slow progress, to make my…

  • It’s Probably Time for a Bit More routine …

    It’s Probably Time for a Bit More routine …

    I’m staying with my parents over the summer holidays and haven’t quite returned to routines after the disrupted Christmas/New Year weeks. Those public holidays smack bang in the middle of the week mess with my sense of time. I volunteered to look after dinner for everyone on Wednesday night. I knew it was Wednesday, yet…

  • 101 Things: 400 Day Review

    101 Things: 400 Day Review

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 300 days, I calculated that I was 25.4% complete. The 400 day mark came and went while we were away. Let’s see how I went in the next 100 days … I calculate that’s an…

  • 101 Things in 1001 Days: 300-Day Check-In

    101 Things in 1001 Days: 300-Day Check-In

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 200 days, I calculated that I was 19.96% complete. Let’s see how I went in the next 100 days … So that works out to be 5.42% more of the list complete which means I…

  • Rubbish Audit #1

    Rubbish Audit #1

    Note: I am privileged with time, education and resources that allow me to make choices that are not available to everyone. Each of us has to make decisions based on our circumstances and values. You can read more of my thoughts on this topic here and a related quote. So, this post is me doing…

  • 101 Things in 1001 days: 200-Day Check-In

    101 Things in 1001 days: 200-Day Check-In

    I started my 101 Things list on September 11th 2023. I’m checking my progress every 100 days. At the end of the first 100 days, I calculated that I was 11.73% complete. Let’s get into the next 200 days, shall we? For days 100-200, I completed 8.22% of my list, which means I’m 19.96% through…