Suddenly working from home. Extremely grateful to work for such a caring and responsible company. I rely on routine a lot, and it’s severely out of sync now. Working to create new routines. I did some inner work on how imposter syndrome shows up for me for training I had planned, which was then cancelled. […]
Author: LiLi Kathleen Bright
The week that started 2nd March 2020
Writing Went to a meditation and restoration event, after which I connected with some of my writer friends about writing. Now working on an application for a writing residency I’m really excited about and that seems made for me. Booked onto a writing course too. Feels good to be investing in writing like this. Trees […]
The week that started 24th February 2020
More balance A couple of weeks ago I said watch this space for more about balance. Well, here’s the space. I’m looking at working on a compressed schedule, namely 9 day fortnight: alternating between a 5 day week and a 4 day week, working slightly longer days. There are many potential benefits. I’m running an […]
The week that started 17th February 2020
Balance Last week I did 3 weeks of activity planning, which was so useful for prioritising things I want to do, scheduling them and booking tickets. This week I did some financial planning for some of the classes and courses I want to do, to prioritise them and balance importance and urgency. It feels great […]
The week that started 10th February 2020
Values I reflected on what’s important to me. There were a lot of things, as you might expect, but I kept going over them until I got down to a list of 4: Balance Solitude Meaning Compassion There were some surprises. Balance has been so important to me for such a long time, years, but […]
The week that started 3rd February 2020
Botany After my first introduction to botany lesson at the weekend, I recapped what I learned. Monocotyledons Dicotyledons alliums, e.g. garliccereals, e.g. rice, quinoa, cornbutcher’s broom pretty much everything else I saw a photo of the widest tree in the UK, a yew in Stafforshire at Shugborough Hall. And I saw that holly bark has […]
The week that started 27th January
Rest I’ve been thinking about rest because I listened to an episode of Feel Better Live More about it. Another thing, I have this objective about an excellent life balance, and my focus for this quarter is on learning more and measuring that by habits I’ve changed or integrated and measuring my wellbeing. I didn’t […]
The week that started 20th January
Healthier habits My mum came to visit me at work and heard Disco 2000 by Pulp playing, which she enjoyed. So we danced to it when I got home. 😊 Practising doing stuff I enjoy Walked around St James’ Park with my mum during my lunch break. Lovely. Never imagined that this would be my […]
The week that started 13th January
Healthier habits Move more: Walking I finished reading Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s The 4 Pillar Plan. It, along with Feel Better in 5, helped me move more. Which is the main health intervention I want and need. As a result, I’ve started dancing for 5 minutes when I get home from work, and now my mum […]
The week that started 6th January
My definition of happiness: Happiness is knowing what to do to combat low mood, and doing it. LiLi K Bright, 30 Dec 2019 Definitely influenced by my – relatively brief, thankfully – history with depression and anxiety, since before December 2016 (maybe since late 2015 / early 2016). Which I got help with from August […]