I wish I'd discovered writing "Morning Pages" a lot earlier.
I've been doing it for the last year, and it's helped me figure out much better solutions to so many issues in my life, than I would have without the calm, reflective thinking that writing for 30 minutes each morning brings.
Agreed. I hardly ever see my daughter in the morning but make sure that 99% of the time I'm home in time to put her to bed and read a story (she's 8), often it's at bedtime that any worries come out, and I'm so glad I'm able to be there to listen.
It’s not a city, but I’ve just spent 10 days working remotely from the Isle of Jura, population 200, off the west coast of Scotland.
I work in finance as a programmer, and whilst often need to spend time with traders and quants, this time away was a great opportunity to get my head down and get stuck into some issues that I normally don’t get time for.
The best thing was that my daughter could spend time with her cousins and I could do trail running at random times of the day. Seriously considering doing this more often!
What a great idea. I really struggle to plan sprints and projects just using lists. Also MS Project etc are just far too complicated for my small projects.
I actually resorted to drawing dependency and flow diagrams by hand, then translating those into JIRA tickets and adding to Kanban style boards.
The ability to track changes using git is such a simple (and with hindsight, obvious) idea, but I should think very effective.
I've been doing it for the last year, and it's helped me figure out much better solutions to so many issues in my life, than I would have without the calm, reflective thinking that writing for 30 minutes each morning brings.
Can't recommend it enough.
https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/