Day Crafting: Make your days harder

Hi The first Foundation course finished this week. The hardest part was deciding what to leave out as six sessions became two. The course is framed around the Preparation method, which has lots of applications and value. Rewriting gave me the ch...

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Oct 24, 2025
Day Crafting: Six Types of Busy (and which are you?)

Hi Have you noticed, of the ways people answer the question, 'how are you?', 'busy' has to be at the top of the list? The question used to get you a, 'fine thanks' but now it gets you a, 'let me catalogue my chaos', or, 'My to-do list is so long I st...

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Sep 25, 2025
Day Crafting: Two Ways to Look Back

Hi I've been reviewing how I review since using the lovely hardback Design Notes every day since it was published. I'm on week 22 in case anyone else started at a similar time.The daily(ish) minimal practice is to set an intention...

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Aug 29, 2025
Day Crafting: When You Can’t Start, Start Here

Hi – how are you doing? More often than I'd wish, I plan to do something, but when the time comes, I hit some kind of resistance. Amongst the self-condemnatory self-talk, I hear myself say I don't feel like it. If this never happens to you, I'd...

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Aug 07, 2025
Day Crafting: The hormones making up your energy rhythm

Hi Your hormones have a schedule, but is yours in harmony with theirs? Can you draw your energy rhythm across the day? It turns out that most of us don't need deep reflection to make a reasonable estimate. Most finches, which is most of us, draw...

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Jun 09, 2025