I’m tempted to reset my iPhone and only install the apps I’m using to see how few apps I can get away with.
I would really like to be able to put apps in slide over on my Mac. Having Todoist there would be very helpful when I’m not plugged into my external display.
I finally have a new iPad to replace the one which died in early January. Realised how much I used the old one and my ancient MacBook Pro wasn’t able to handle some things I was doing. Been playing the new Affinity apps and they are very impressive.
I really wish Safari played nicely with all site or web apps. Having to run an app so that links for certain things (Monday.com and Miro) open in a Chromium browser is very annoying.
New iPad ordered and arriving to my local Apple shop on Tuesday. They had an offer with £75 off which was a nice bonus!
Apple bringing transcripts for podcasts is very cool. In fact the only thing stopping me from using the built in Podcasts app is the lack of a smart speed feature. I’m so used to having it that when I listen to a podcast without it it sounds really slow.
This week I’ve made a switch to Todoist, setup the calendar integration with Google and really leaned on their task durations. It’s worked really well for time blocking tasks in-between work meetings.
It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally I read something in the first lines of a post and can’t read the rest of the post because I keep going back to it.
In this case it was the first 4 words. I don’t want a productivity system, I want a creativity system.
Fit for Forty
This is a post which I’ve had brewing in the back of my mind since September. This year marks the end of my 3rd decade, September will be my 40th birthday the end of what has turned out to be quite a hard decade. A look in the mirror and I can see how hard it has been.
At the start of the year I weighed myself and had a little bit of a shock. My weight hasn’t just gone up, it’s ballooned and I am the heaviest I have ever been by a large margin. What’s worse is that I look at photos of myself and am shocked at the size of my stomach and my physique. One thing is clear. It’s time to change and do something about it.
This week I’m going to begin a trifecta of things. I’m going to start tracking what I’m eating and how much. I eat a lot of fresh food, but also a lot of convenience food, so that needs to change. My initial aim with tracking what I’m eating is to make myself more aware and then to try and make some more healthier choices.
Secondly I’m going to drink more water. I have a large water bottle that can hold two litres of water. I’m going to build a routine of filling that up first thing in the morning and finishing it by the end of the day. If I want something sweeter or a soft drink I will go for sparkling water and a slice of fruit.
Thirdly, I need to start exercising. I optimistically joined a gym back in September and have been a grand total of once a month since. I’m going to cancel my membership and use the money to subscribe to Fitbod instead. Then I am going to add calendar appointments for workouts throughout the week.
I’m sharing this in an effort to try and build a commitment with myself. I plan to share my progress each month with how I’m doing on each of these three fronts. If I can establish some good habits in the next month I will start to share some of the statistics around my weight, but for now this is all I’m comfortable sharing.
I always enjoy a birthday list. This one from Jeff Sheldon has a few nice points and a few that made me chuckle.