Irons in the fire

This page is a slightly more … transient version of my now page. It is a page describing a number of things I am toying with, trying or cultivating. Some get more energy, some will be abandoned. Not much in this life is permanent.

(- [p] = feeling good about it; - [c] = not so good)

Health

• [p] Running again.
• [c] Crisps only per week
• [c] Quiet prayer / Bible times. Somatic approach? Safe, incremental increases. Be aware of state and cues of safety and danger: what’s keeping me from doing what I want, what is natural? What makes it difficult, what are the blockers?
• [c] no evening meal dessert
• [c] Bed at 22.30 for sleep by 23.00

Routines

• [p] Pausing more. Sense of how I am in my body. Winning and seeing the benefits
• [c] Friday review time/ Involve others?
• [p] Interstitial journalling. Ideally including reset before the next thing; stretch, stand up, let go, decide what energy or mood is needed for the next thing.
• [p] Daniel prayers
• [c] Daily wind down add to the daily sheet events, achievements, good bad, commencement time. Tick Tick habit tracker?

Leader role at work

• [p] See my 1:1s not as meetings but productive time. Ask for team lead feedback on these.
• [c] Looking around and being more aware of my team’s state
• [c] Wednesday walks & strategic thinking
• [?] hot debriefs
• [p] Being clear about how I assign tasks to others: initiative level and dates.
• [c] Resisting email handbacks
• [?] “Feedback is a persona I put on”

Emails and tasks

• [p] Tick Tick for task management
• [p] Using Outlook draft folder and Power Automate to help me quickly assign tasks
• [c] Processing and responding to only emails from the day before or earlier. Struggling: dopamine? Walk first?
• [?] Weekly planning ritual. More review of the programme, created a new crib sheet.
• [c] My weekly and monthly task mechanisms [try task processing in the morning, and also not using TickTick as an inbox]
• [c] Email processing window. 1 hour strict? This adds up to 13% of my time. Change background to cyber? Use a pomo? use flags for later response.