For the first Better Me Podcast of 2022 I talked about trying to be consistent while not beating myself over some stumbles here and there. Some of the things that I’ve done well at being consistent at during the first six weeks of the year include: I’ve meditated every day for at least five minutes. READ MORE
Category: Habits
Rewarding Small Successes
I’ve written before about my ongoing quest to find a planner that really fits me. I stumbled across The Self-Care Planner from Simple Self and ordered myself one of the Daily Planners that has enough pages in it to last for six months. I’ll write more about the planner later because I like it a READ MORE
Asking Myself Four Questions
I was listening to an episode of Todd Henry’s podcast early last week and it struck a nerve with me. In it, he recommends asking yourself four specific questions to start 2022. He does this every year, but the questions change. The questions this year are: What is my defining question right now? What do READ MORE
The Stories We Tell
I facilitate a workshop on how to deal with difficult conversations with students, whether individually or with a full class. One of the things that we talk about is the stories that we tell in such situations. There are three types: The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves – these are the ones like, “I READ MORE
Revisiting a Habit Journal
Back in early July 2020, I wrote a blog post about the Clear Habit Journal from James Clear that I’d ordered. I used the habit tracking pages pretty consistently for a year (it’s designed to be used for a year), noted blog post ideas in it almost daily, but only sporadically used some of its READ MORE
What’s Essential?
This will be brief because I’m starting my vacation tomorrow. That’s also why you won’t see a new post here until November 18th. On Monday, however, be sure to check out the Better Me Podcast to here my interview with gynaecologist / singer-songwriter (yes, you read that right) Kristina Dervaitis talking about her new album READ MORE
What Did You Start?
I had a conversation with a colleague almost three years ago about our respective struggles with depression. I was in the middle of a bout and he’d been through it in the past. I mentioned that I’d taken up meditation a couple of months earlier and had been doing it daily. “You established a new READ MORE
Having Faith In Yourself
It’s really easy to lose faith in yourself during challenging times. For years I struggled to have any really faith in myself, and I recognize when I’m feeling that way again. Am I a good partner and parent? Am I good at my job? Am I a good friend? I’m a bad cook. I’m unattractive. READ MORE
Three Tips For Email
I was listening to an episode of the Becoming Better podcast last week and they were talking about email, which got me thinking about my own email habits so I thought I’d share some of them here, in case anything I do might be useful to any of you. I’m going to break this down READ MORE
New Clothes Are Better Than Old Judgements
I got some new clothes over the weekend. Every time I put on one of my dress shirts I felt bad about myself because the buttons were bulging. I’d look at myself in the mirror and feel bad. I’d carefully adjust my computer to make sure that anyone I was on a call with couldn’t READ MORE
