Happy new year to everyone! I’m slightly befuddled by a little too much eat and drink but it’s been a great start to the year with the family.
Mind mapping again
It’s been a while since I last did any mind mapping—a few years, in fact. I’ve probably doodled a few smaller mind maps in that time, but this is the first time that I have done anything more than a doodle.
The two-page spread of my notebook works quite well for it, and the paper is thick enough to cope with most of my markers, so there’s little chance of it bleeding through.
I can see myself doing more of this in the months ahead.
Mind map to curated list to final plan.
It took an hour to do but I’ve managed to outline 12 blog posts for 2020 that I’ll publish at my main home page. These will be longer posts than I publish here at Micro.blog.
I’m not back to work until the 6th of January but I’ve got some marketing work to do tomorrow for my side product. Not my favourite aspect of building a product but an absolute necessity in this case.
Merry Christmas!
Well, Christmas Day is almost over in the Lang household. My parents have just left for the night, and I have to say they loved their Christmas lunch and the evening’s entertainment.
It’s not over, so I can still send season greetings to my little blog’s readers.
So, Merry Christmas to you all, and I wish you all a great day.
Sadly we’ve hit that point where the kids are no longer fascinated by Norad tracking Santa. We had a good run of about ten years though, so can’t complain.
I’m halfway through James Clear’s Atomic Habits now. So many great examples in this book. I’ve found chapter 17 on tracking habits to be particularly helpful.
Another Christmas, another reading of A Christmas Carol done. I love reading this book at anytime of year, but it should be read in the run up to Christmas.
Nicholas Bate has all the skills you’ll need for 2020.
Morning routines for the rest of us
Curtis McHale offers an important reality check when it comes to emulating the routines of the successful.
It’s important to remember that many of these famous people are entirely divorced from anything resembling the reality of the rest of us. At one point before they were successful they didn’t have this routine and had to rush through the laundry at 5 am so they had clean pants in the morning. Yoga and cryotherapy weren’t even a thing they knew about and wouldn’t have cared about if they had heard of it.
— The morning routines we idolize are often from people divorced from reality
My morning routine isn’t anything to write home about at the moment. Wake up at 5:30 am, spend a few minutes doing some stretches to loosen my back, shower and get ready. Have a quick breakfast and then head out the door to work.
It’s not the ideal morning routine that I would like to have, but I’m prepared to take the hit in the short term.