Today’s the start of a renewed focus on good healthy habits and particularly sleep and reducing screen time. I’ve also started a new approach to caffeine this morning. No caffeine for 90 minutes after rising, instead getting outside into the morning sunshine, and also no screens for 30 minutes. I’ve heard about this approach in […]
Frustration, impatience, nothing seeming good enough
I just wrote about 1,000 words and then realised it wasn’t really a blog post. It was just me thinking through my training plan for my running for the summer. I even went and planned out my mileage for the whole summer. Then I felt frustrated because according to my plan I will only get […]
The middle way
I’m back! I think my last post was maybe last Friday, or even Thursday, a week ago. I ran my ultra last Saturday and have basically been just exhausted ever since. Today, for the first time since then, I feel almost if not entirely back to normal, and ready for a normal day of writing, […]
New project, getting ahead to ease anxiety
As I was journaling this morning, it occurred to me to wonder whether it would help my anxiety if I prepared for things further in advance. The reason this popped into my head was that I realised I felt less anxious this morning (the day before my ultramarathon) than I have done all week, and […]
Life is good
I want lots of things. I want to feel happy, relaxed and at ease every day of my life. All day. I just want to enjoy life. Every last bit of it. I want to be one of those people who just can’t stop smiling, who’s always positive, who cheers everyone around them up because […]
Habits, perfection and energy
It seems to be so easy to let a day go by without posting, and then another one, and before you know it you have completely let go of a habit that you felt you were really enjoying and completing easily. For me, especially with blogging, because it tends to be one of the last […]