I bought my laptop home with me for the long weekend. I was writing code at 9pm on Wednesday night. Last week, I worked Sunday night. Sounds like I have a work-life integration problem, right? I used to have these strict rules - laptop stays at the office. No work at the weekends. I drew lines around ...
On the way to Toronto my friend is telling me I need to give up bagels, and I say, there's enough change in my life right now without introducing more. But that I think it will be better next month. She says, "you always think that; you said that in August, too". She's right. This month's ...
It was inevitable, the amount I've been flitting about, and the number of bugs that have been going round, but Thursday last week I came home early and pretty much keeled over. I barely got up for 3 days. Monday I got up but I was berating myself for being so lazy, annoyed at myself ...
I've determined that 6am workout classes are the way to prioritize and fit in exercise. As a result, I've discovered that there's something quite depressing about oversleeping and thinking "because I did not get up at 5:30 I am not going to fit in everything I want to do today". But on Monday I made it, ...
I have had a pretty appalling week in terms of the difference between what I wanted to achieve, and what I did achieve. Things outside my control: Re-aggravating shoulder injury. So much pain. Increased sleeping due to pain killers. Two trips to chiro (feeling a lot better now - finally). Car is broken and needs a bunch of work, so we ...
Back in May, I started checking email only once a day (and sometimes not at all if I had no meetings). I had to accept that no-email days would be scarcer than I'd like, but overall it's been a good experiment. Typically I get through it as fast as possible (< 15 mins) and once ...
Mid- way through June, I paused, and wondered - why was I focusing on little things during a month of big things? I hope that end-of-May-Cate realized that this was something that June-Cate would need to stay sane. This month's focus gave me permission to make time for small, unimportant (but important to me), things ...
Arriving, stressed, on a Monday morning the other week I decided to shut the mail tab on my browser, with no intention of opening it again. This impromptu panic started a new thing - I'm checking (work) email at most once a day, if I have a meeting. No meeting days - usually one a week ...
There's this advice that women seem to give each other, it's "you can have it all, just not at once". I hate it, because to me if you can't have it all at once, you're not really having it all. Rephrasing it, I would say, "You can't have it all at once. So remember to prioritize ...
I've been getting really stressed out on Mondays lately. I realized why when I called someone out on doing the exact same thing. Monday mornings I do my "snippets" - I make a list of things I achieved the previous week. And I mentally plan what I want to achieve over the course of the coming week. Towards ...
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