As I’ve mentioned before, I feel a bit ripped off on holiday Mondays because I lose my one dedicated day of self-guided productivity. Not this week. Today I need a day of rest. (If that makes you question why I’m writing a blog post instead of resting, I can assure you that I slept in …
Category Archives: focal points
28: Focal Points Follow-Up
Now that January is almost over and the excitement of a new year full of new goals and plans is wearing off, I think it’s a good time to check back on my Fall Focal Points. I did this in October when I was just starting out, which was about 3 months ago now, so …
Week 25: Twelve Days of Vacation
Here we are at the penultimate post of the year, and I really didn’t have a plan for this week. I am now on vacation until the new year, and while I would normally be off today anyway, it still feels glorious. I’m not going to go into great detail about what I’m going to …
Week 23: Best Books of 2019
As I mentioned last week, I read a lot. So far this year I’ve finished 44 books, plus I’m midway through 2 more right now. I have always loved reading but it fell out of my routine while I was in school, so a few years ago I made a conscious effort to bring it …
Week 22: Depth Year
A few weeks ago I came across an article on Raptitude that I found very interesting. You can read it here, but the basic idea is presented in the first few sentences: “After you’re established in your career, and you have some neat stuff in your house, you take a whole year in which you …
Week 21: Reflections at 40
Birthday week complete! I’m writing this from the other side of 40, and things are about the same as they were last week, but for one: I feel like I’ve now paid my dues and I no longer have to care what anyone thinks. Admittedly, this was not a sudden change; I’m really just using …
Week 17: Early Retirement
Retirement is something that I think about a lot, and while I am coming up on a milestone birthday, it is definitely nowhere near my 65th. That being said, I don’t intend to spend the next 25 years working for a living either. I got into this topic a bit in my post about Life …
Week 16: Blues Dancing
I wrote a post a few months back about Swing dancing and what I love about it. Swing dancing is definitely one of the great pleasures in my life, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Recently, we’ve also started exploring Blues dancing, and have really been enjoying it as an extension of our …
Week 14: Watch Not, Want Not
We decided to cancel our cable a few months ago, and I have to say, I do not miss it at all. Not because we don’t watch TV, because we definitely do. We watch Netflix, and we stream a few shows or movies here and there. We probably have more than enough options with Netflix …
Week 13: October Check-Up
October starts tomorrow, so I thought it would be a good time to check in on the Fall Focal Points situation. I wrote that post just about 2 months ago, in eager anticipation of gaining my weekend hours back, and as of yesterday, our basement project is 100% complete. Big sigh of relief. To say …
Dancing In Irreverence 