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Crafting Better Days
Discover how to shape your day with care, rhythm, and intention. These posts concentrate on the daily craft: building small achievements, designing repeatable patterns, and refining how your days feel and flow.
The Paradox of Autonomy: When Freedom Becomes the Problem
You have the freedom. But what do you do with it? Explore why autonomy doesn’t always lead to flourishing – and how a rule-of-life, or a...
Jul 242 min read
Aligning with Circadian Hormones for Energy and Wellbeing
Introduction: The Body’s 24-Hour Hormone Clock Our bodies run on an internal 24-hour (ish) clock (the circadian rhythm) that orchestrates...
Apr 2413 min read
Day Crafting: The Change Workbook
Enhance your daily life with practical tools to foster meaningful change. Day Crafting: The Change Workbook offers a step-by-step method...
Jan 162 min read
10 Proactive Diary Tools to Escape Reactive Workdays
The Secret to Better Workdays? Get to your Diary First First Does your work system feel more like A or B? A B Pressing problems....
Mar 23, 20243 min read
Crafting Days with Play: 50 Experiments to Break Routine and Spark Fresh Thinking
Blueprints for Days with Play: A Day Crafter’s Guide to Creative Experimentation When I was a kid, growing up in the 70s and 80s, there...
Feb 21, 20243 min read
VIA Strengths for Deeper Connection in Your Day
Beyond the Superficial: Exploring Deeper Connection Through VIA Strengths This is an important question: do you want to improve your...
Oct 5, 20233 min read
NEAT Tricks from Blue Zones for Longer, Healthier Days
Are your days NEAT enough? Why is it that citizens of certain places live significantly longer, healthier lives than the rest of us?...
Jan 31, 20233 min read
What rhythms does your body move to? Circadian, ultradian, infradian and circasemidian
Is your day a harmony or a discord? This isn't just poetic language. You have a finite amount of energy you can use during your day to...
Nov 10, 20224 min read
Day Crafting: The Productivity Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 9, 20223 min read
Day Crafting: The Body-clock Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Day Crafting: The Introductory Workbook
Front cover The Introductory Workbook has a charming, vintage feel, reminiscent of a craftwork manual from the 1970s or 80s, with just...
Nov 1, 20213 min read
Get Your Day Crafting Five A Day
What five things could you craft into every day to help your life flourish? This simple intervention goes to the heart of the Day...
Jun 4, 20213 min read
How to Help Children Plan the Holidays: A Day Crafting Guide
Wondering how Day Crafting can make your children's holiday days more organised and fun? Asking, 'What do you want to do today?' might...
May 28, 20211 min read
Reset your days to your internal clock
Imagine a clock that told you personally when it was your best time during the day to do certain tasks, such as the optimum time to do...
Apr 21, 20215 min read
Replacing Big Goals with a Mission Driven Practice
Why is Day Crafting primarily concerned with shaping today, this day, as the way to a good life? I began coaching leaders over 20 years...
Mar 5, 20213 min read
The best way to design a new behaviour
I know a 'lean systems' expert. Her role in aerospace manufacturing is to observe factory processes and find ways to improve efficiency....
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Redesigning effective rest and unlocking energy use
Given that the human brain is constantly monitoring our energy budget and predicting our energy use and attempting to get us to balance output with restoration, it is perverse, but not altogether out of character, that the part of our brain that thinks it runs the show should come up with a notion such as, 'I'll rest when I'm dead'. Sometimes we choose to believe the dumbest ideas.
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Crafting freedom from the hidden rules we allow to govern us
Last Wednesday, the power went off. It was planned. Someone from the power company told us this was going to happen from 9am, with power back estimated at 4.30pm. So, as a family all at home in lockdown, we scheduled a special day of doing a lot of unplugged things. Including going for a walk after lunch. When we got back at 2.30, the power was back on early ... so what did we do?
Feb 1, 20212 min read
Setting intentions – the Day Crafting tool you’ll use most
Have you heard of a stitching pony? Every craft has ubiquitous tools, the potter's wheel, the smith's anvil, the carver's chisel – and the leatherworker has the stitching pony which is used to grip the material. To the Day Crafter the tool used most often has to be intention setting.
Jan 15, 20212 min read
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