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2022 is my year to focus on fun and passion projects (see my plan here), but I also continue to track my health and wellbeing and personal finances, which have been focuses in previous years. March has been another busy month with work, and I haven't had the balance right with my personal goals and… Continue reading March 2022 update – Fun, passion projects, health and finance
My attitude towards my diet changed when I started to think about food as nutrition rather than just fuel. The old adage is true, you are what you eat. But food is not the only thing that feeds you, and I've started to become more aware of the other things that I consume - media… Continue reading You are what you… consume
Like any good project manager, I like to review my last piece of work before I move onto the next. Every New Year I pick a focus instead of a resolution (see this post on why), and last year it was my health and wellbeing. Did I achieve my objective? My main objective was to… Continue reading 2021 in review – a focus on health and wellbeing
There's about two weeks left until the Christmas break and the fresh start that comes with New Year, and I'm soooo looking forward to it! With such a short way to go until 2022, it's easy to feel like giving up on 2021. Diet goes out of the window because of the festivities, exercise takes… Continue reading Two weeks to go – don’t give up now!
At my last health and wellbeing update, I talked about how going back into lockdown and then having to change my office location has forced me to find new daily routines. What worked previously for my health habits was now conflicting with my new commute and work pressures. In particular, my exercise suffered but I… Continue reading My new daily routine
My 'project' for 2021 is a focus on health and wellbeing, and as part of the plan I will be monitoring progress through monthly reviews, which I'll share here. Monitoring should not be confused with evaluation - these monthly updates are not an assessment of whether or not my annual plan is a success or… Continue reading Health and wellbeing – October update
If you are trying to change your physical behavior, first try changing your internal mental script. Our mental scripts are the repeating narratives we tell ourselves. It's typically not a rational voice, based on evidence and circumstance, but a kind of automated self-commentary. Negative scripts are built on our deepest insecurities and worries. Full of… Continue reading Using mental scripts to shape your behavior
Something we try to do a lot in business is to focus on the high value areas and scale them, and avoid trying to do a little of everything. For example, did you know that Mail Chimp originally started out as a web design agency that did mailing lists as a side service? The founders… Continue reading Scale and focus
My 'project' for 2021 is a focus on health and wellbeing, and as part of the plan I will be monitoring progress through monthly reviews, which I'll share here. Monitoring should not be confused with evaluation - these monthly updates are not an assessment of whether or not my annual plan is a success or… Continue reading Health and Wellbeing – May update
My 'project' for 2021 is a focus on health and wellbeing, and as part of the plan I will be monitoring progress through monthly reviews, which I'll share here. Monitoring should not be confused with evaluation - these monthly updates are not an assessment of whether or not my annual plan is a success or… Continue reading Health and Wellbeing – April update
Business Rules for Life 