Thriving your way
When is the last time you considered your handwriting? I suspect some time during late primary or early secondary school before it became a subconscious act. But writing suddenly stopped being subconsious for me as I had a handwriting crisis with the letter f. All of a sudden I didn’t like how wrote the letter and felt awkward every time I wrote one. I researched different ways to write f and practised writing them on scraps of Continue Reading …
The children are in bed and we’re having a quiet evening after our busy Christmas so I’ve got the opportunity to think back on the year. It has certainly been a year of change, with two major changes standing out. Losing weight I lost three stone. I knew it was time to lose some pregnancy weight once I weighed more than my husband, but I have to admit that I hadn’t realised I was that much Continue Reading …
I like simple. It is something I aspire to because things are easier with fewer decisions and it is quicker to clear up. I’ve made it very clear that I like simple by including it in my strap line Capture > Process > Simplify, however I’ve realised I’ve been concentrating on the wrong type of simple. Recently my simple has been about simplifying processes to make them more efficient, so I can do more. I’ve been Continue Reading …
Feeling tired in the morning, something that hasn’t changed in 25 years; but now as a parent of two young children I find it amusing that I thought I was tired then. I’ve written about my attempt to improve my sleep before, and since reading I can make you sleep by Paul McKenna I fall asleep much quicker. This year I’ve been working on getting to sleep earlier, although this is not as easy as Continue Reading …
I love this simple statement that nothing much happened, and there was no other text in the entry. It is a bit similar to the BBC deciding there was nothing newsworthy in 1930. Now, even if I think I have nothing to say when I pick up my diary I always find something once I put my pen to the paper; perhaps a bit similar to journalists finding enough news to fill 24 hour news Continue Reading …
Today’s diary entry is a little embarrassing; I did not know I’d been wanting to type my diary entries up for 25 years. I started typing them up about ten years ago and have some in Word (possibly still on floppy disk) and some in Lifejournal. I still love the idea of having all my entries tagged in Lifejournal so I’m able to filter my writing for specific extracts for example everything I’ve written about a Continue Reading …
I used to think it was awful being the youngest, and I had lots of experience as I was a younger sister and the youngest of all my cousins. It seems the biggest frustration was that I was not allowed to buy what I wanted. I wonder what I particularly wanted to buy; I do remember not being allowed to get Dirty Dancing, but I thought that was earlier in 1989. I wonder if I Continue Reading …
The first time I remember recognising that I felt better when I wrote a diary was about ten years ago when I’d restarted writing after a break of several months. However, it appears I first recognised the benefits of diary writing 25 years ago, just one month after starting. I like to think I keep my diary to capture memories, but I always write at the end of the day so there is probably a Continue Reading …
Not a surprise, I didn’t want to tidy my room even though I’d worked out the correct order to tidy a bedroom just a few days previously. And it is so easy to procrastinate. I’ve come along way in the last 25 years ago because I now know that if I avoid doing a task I don’t like, it will still need doing. I know it is good to complete your least favourite tasks first so Continue Reading …
Half way through October and I was already planning to search for Christmas presents. I’m struggling to remember whether this was a realistic activity or completely pointless so far in advance of Christmas. My first thought was Mum wouldn’t have been that organised, but then I remembered her present drawer where she always had a collection of presents for school parties, plus she was good at buying unusual gifts when she saw them. My memory of Christmas Continue Reading …
