Category: Systems
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward – June 2023 and a half-yearly check-in
I learned something new this week – July 2nd is the middle of the year. I usually do a check-in each month with my intentions but since we are over half-way through the year I thought I’d also look at how I’m going over the course of the year. Daily Routines: my intention in this…
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward – May 2023
Reviewing my progress on my May intentions and setting my intentions for June. We’ll see how much gets done this month. We’re currently in Noosa, still working, but when we log off in the afternoon, we usually walk along the river. It’s pretty hard to handle. Daily Routines: I had a little bit of a…
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward – April 2023
Reviewing my progress on my April intentions and setting my intentions for May. Daily Routines: I was on and off with these but generally successful with weekday Lectio 365 and 5 min prayer. I kept up my higher protein breakfasts and lunches, successfully converting them to dairy-free options. This month my practice will be foam…
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Bi-Yearly Wardrobe Check-Up Part 2
My four drawers contain: This is my drawer of sports clothes. I usually run four times and do a session of gym and pilates a week. My running-specific bottoms all have decent-sized pockets to carry my phone and fuelling on longer runs Hanging on a hook in our hallway: Running cap The next drawer down…
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My Bi-yearly Wardrobe Check-Up Part 1
A few years ago, I started doing bi-yearly wardrobe check-ups, once in spring and once in autumn, which means I was due one this month. While my wardrobe isn’t as minimalist as Elisabeth’s, I try to run a fairly tight ship. This was by choice previously, but now that we’ve moved into an apartment, this…
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward – March 2023
Reviewing progress on my March intentions, and setting my intentions for April. Daily Routines: I’m still doing the Lectio365 app each morning. I overhauled my weekday breakfasts and lunches to include more protein. Generally, for breakfast, this looked like either overnight oats and porridge in the steam oven with chia seeds, hemp seeds, almond butter, a touch…
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Looking Forward, Looking Backward – February 2023
Reviewing my progress on my February intentions, and setting my intentions for March. I had a substantial mid-month motivation slump, so I didn’t move forward quite the way I would have liked this month, but I managed to pull myself together and get a few things done. Daily Routines: I’m still doing the Lectio365 app…
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Looking Backward, Looking Forward – January 2023
Reviewing my progress in January, setting my intentions for February: I spent a couple of weeks with my parents at their house in Point Lonsdale. The girls also stayed down until mid-January. My siblings we down with their families for some of the time too. The summer holidays are usually when we spend the most…
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Friday Thoughts #5
From the comments on my post, email seems to cause angst to many people. I mentioned in my post that one of my strategies was to move the backlog of unread newsletters out of my inbox and into a newsletter folder. Oliver Burkeman, in his newsletter this week, recommends this tactic for any backlog. First,…
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Taming my inbox again
I’m an inbox zero fan. My optimum situation is inbox zero every afternoon before I turn off the computer to get dinner ready and wind down, but with the move and Christmas, it got totally out of control. I hadn’t done any unsubscribing from the reams of promotional material coming into my inbox for a…