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Are you dropping the “eating well” ball?

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Jo VanEvery 9 Comments

A tightly packed wooden bowl of mixed chopped veg and meat is on a wooden tray with a little wooden spoon ready to eat, fuel and nourish the consumer.

During my planning classes I have participants note which juggling balls typically get dropped for them during term time. When I asked how many people noticed that they ate less well or didn’t sleep enough several people on the call responded affirmatively. Good nutrition is a foundational … [Read more...] about Are you dropping the “eating well” ball?

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Planning, Self-care Tagged With: balance, control, decision fatigue, decision making, decisions, effort, expectations, food, habits, health, meals, mental health, planning, plans, preparation, responsibility, rest, self-care, taking responsibility

Squaring “write every day” with “take the weekend off”

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Jo VanEvery Leave a Comment

Habits are important. Rest is also important. How do you square the advice to write every day with my advice to take weekends off and have real vacations? Change “write every day” to “write every working day”. Your brain is perfectly capable of distinguishing between work days and rest days. … [Read more...] about Squaring “write every day” with “take the weekend off”

Filed Under: Developing a Practice, Planning, Writing Tagged With: habits, holidays, sabbath, vacation, weekend

Small steps yield big results

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jo VanEvery 2 Comments

Whether it's the New Academic Year or the New (Calendar) Year, you probably have some New Year's Resolutions! It is tempting to set big goals. However, every big goal is achieved by a set of very small steps. Small steps are much less overwhelming than big changes. A post from Peter Shankman … [Read more...] about Small steps yield big results

Filed Under: 15 minutes a day, Developing a Practice, Ethos & Influences, Experiments, Writing Tagged With: 15 minute challenge, habits, resolutions

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