I’m a bit stumped when it comes to planning 2023; there’s a great deal of uncertainty and unpredicatibility coming up for me this year. Each year when I start planning, I start with some tongue in cheek horoscope reporting, usually checking the predictions again as I review the year. Predictions for the last five years […]
2022 Year End Review
My 2022 review almost didn’t happen; I received reviews from every single company I did business with during the year, and I could care less. But when I was working as a Project Manager, it always annoyed me when the press of new plans meant skipping the project reviews. Besides, I wrote a book about […]
December 2022 Progress Report
So. December 2022. Last month of the year. Supposedly the time you close out the year, ready to start afresh the very next day. I’m fairly certain I didn’t get to that… Highlights Though I did manager to get sufficient food and drink into the house, along with all my Christmas cards and gifts posts, […]
November 2022 Progress Report
What can I say about November 2022? I finally got my sauna! And while getting it unpacked and put up almost killed me, along with the fencing, I’m really happy it’s here. But otherwise… Highlights Got myself mostly organised for Christmas with cards and gifts all sent, and some luxury food treats laid in ready […]
October 2022 Progress Report
October 2022 is over already! A day seems to take forever, but the month seems to have flown by. As usual. October 2022 has been one of those months you’d like to pause to give yourself a chance to take a breath. On the surface, not much has happened, but underneath, it’s all go go […]
2022 Transplantiversary
It’s that time again – the 2022 transplantiversary. Eleven years and counting – officially past the nice, neat, predictable transplanted lifetime. I’m feeling weary, and that makes it feel like a lot happened this year. But my life hasn’t changed a great deal since the dark days of Covid, so it’s possible like millions of […]
Q3 2022 Review & Q4 Plan
Well, Q3 may have gone a lot better if I hadn’t missed the first couple of months, but with a new spirit of get-it-done-ishness, my Q4 plan can only make it better! In fact, I’m half inclined to skip the Q3 review altogether, but there are some things to learn and take forward to my […]
September 2022 Progress Report
September 2022 was notable for a deluge of stationery shop emails inviting me to pre-order my 2023 diary. Which was also handy for remembering to start my Christmas shopping list! In case you wondered, I’m very happy with my Jibun Techo Biz and am impatiently waiting its arrival. One stationery email mentions the diary perfectly […]
July-August 2022 Progress Report
This is a combined July-August 2022 report, because quite frankly I’ve no idea why I didn’t do one in July. And I’m not going to bother this late. I suppose because I caught so many lurgies in June, I carried them through to July as well. Spent a lot of time asleep – going to […]
Q3 2022 Plan
I can’t help but feel more positive about my Q3 2022 plan, there’s just enough change to make me feel like I might be getting somewhere. According to Dean Wesley Smith, the third quarter is the time of Great Regret, when you suddenly wake up realising the year is half gone. Not that I regret […]
Q2 2022 Review
So. Q2 2022 Review eh? Pffffffffff! For those who don’t know, that’s how you write the sound of someone blowing a raspberry (a very long one). Which coincidentally, is pretty much how I feel about the quarter. I can’t say there was much in the way of Great Forgetting, as I managed to stay more […]
June 2022 Progress Report
June 2022, was pretty much missing in action – I went out to visit a doctor and came home with a lurgy or two. It seems I need to build up my immunity after being confined to the house for the better part of two years. Even had to drop the 04:30 wakeup calls for […]