Wellness

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  • Health Goals for 2024
    Health Goals for 2024

    You might remember, I believe “wealth” is more than just money. Health goals can help you make sure you’re healthy enough, to spend the time doing all the things you want to do.

  • Making Quality Connections
    Making Quality Connections

    Moving on from energy, I’m considering one of the biggest energy penny expenditures, the relentless pressure to form connections with others. Connections through social media, in person, and with friends you haven’t met you.

  • Using and Losing Energy
    Using and Losing Energy

    I’m tired. I’m looking at all the stuff that needs doing, and I’m thinking I just don’t have the energy for this right now. Which would be fine if is was just a day or two, but it’s been weeks!

  • To mastectomy or not
    To mastectomy or not

    While I don’t need to explain or justify my mastectomy decision, it makes a good opportunity to talk about how (and why) I made my choice, as well planning and long-term thinking can be useful.

  • More on Labour Exchange
    More on Labour Exchange

    Aside from redeveloping the new look site, I’ve been thinking about labour exchange again. In Holistic Personal Finance, I posited a direct relationship between time, money and health. Creating an abundance of any one, depletes the others.

  • More Morning Routine
    More Morning Routine

    I’m not sure whether it’s because this is already an unusual year, but I’ve been thinking more about my morning routine. Perhaps because there’s been so little else to pin the days on, and the lazy, langourous, sleepy sense of nothing much happening lasts for about 87 hours per day.

  • Developments in my Lifetime
    Developments in my Lifetime

    I started thinking about the scientific and medical developments I’ve seen in my lifetime. How very fortunate I am, and how grateful I am for that.

  • The Pleasure of Getting Things Done
    The Pleasure of Getting Things Done

    Despite the hope of getting things done, we’re often better at starting than finishing them. Yet by definition, getting things done is all about the finish. Finish: A1. to complete something or come to the end of an activityB1. to eat, drink, or use something completely so that none remains Cambridge Dictionary And there’s the…

  • Pleasure and Pain of Healthy Habits
    Pleasure and Pain of Healthy Habits

    My last Transplant Clinic appointment was less pleasant than Iโ€™d hoped, and now Iโ€™m back to contemplating the nature of choice and healthy habits.

  • How to Solve the Time Management Mystery
    How to Solve the Time Management Mystery

    I was chatting about the Time Management Mystery with some creative friends the other day. Actually, we were whining about how we have so much to do, and not enough time to do it in. And speculating how some of the creatives we’re inspired by manage their time.

  • Creating a Happy and Healthy Home
    Creating a Happy and Healthy Home

    Recently there have been a lot of changes in the Blaelock Household, with the aim of creating a happy and healthy home.

  • How to Choose What To Do First
    How to Choose What To Do First

    It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I have so much to do that I’m not sure what to do first. Or second. Or last for that matter.

  • How to Plan a Bright Future
    How to Plan a Bright Future

    Iโ€™ve been reading Any Ordinary Day and thinking about what makes a bright future. In the book, Leigh Sales interviews people about their first-hand experiences.

  • How to celebrate your 100th birthday
    How to celebrate your 100th birthday

    A few days ago, Mary Beard asked; “How do you celebrate your 100th birthday?” Like her, I don’t have a fond hope for reaching 100 years.

  • 5 Easy Ways to Foster Your Life Energy
    5 Easy Ways to Foster Your Life Energy

    Eastern religions have a concept of life energy; Hindus call it prana, and the Chinese qi (chโ€™i). Some Western philosophical traditions call it รฉlan vital, or vital force.