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Identity & Change

Change isn’t just about habits, it’s about who we are. These posts explore the beliefs, cues, and little acts of defiance that help us become the people we aspire to be, step by step.

Six Types of Busy And How To Escape Them

Why busyness isn’t the same as a good life and the hidden costs of busy. Have you noticed, of the ways people answer the question, 'how...

Productivity Without Burnout

Sep 255 min read

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The 1% Principle: the 10 minute habit that reshapes the rest

You’re awake for roughly 960 minutes a day. What if just 1% of that – a simple 10 minute habit – could shift the tone of the other 99%?...

Tools & Blueprints

Aug 132 min read

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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...

Crafting Better Days

Jul 242 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...

Identity & Change

Jan 162 min read

Understanding the Complexity of Human Behavior. The Elephant and Rider. Insights from Day Crafting

The Problem: Unravelling Human Behaviour How do we explain our strange behaviour – procrastination, resistance to change, difficulty...

Identity & Change

Jan 21, 202415 min read

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Time, Energy or Money: Choosing the Right Currency to Make Today Better

It might feel like you're making it up as you go along, but that's not really true. Beneath our actions and choices are rules we follow...

Identity & Change

Aug 17, 20232 min read

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Journalling Prompts to Refine and Design Purpose

Days with meaning: is it time to design and refine your purpose? Day Crafting examines the flow of energy from your maintenance (energy...

Identity & Change

Jul 17, 20233 min read

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Enjoying the Power of Celebrations, Rewards and Treats in Day Crafting

It's Friday, the weekend has arrived, or you've finally cleared your email inbox. Maybe you've achieved a milestone that required hard...

Identity & Change

May 4, 20232 min read

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Breaking the Mold: How to Change Your Identity in a Single Day

When asked how he managed to stay so active and enthusiastic, despite his age, an 80-year-old man said, "Each day I wake up, and I don't...

Identity & Change

Mar 17, 20232 min read

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Small Shifts, Big Difference: Review Questions That Reframe the Day

Are you off course? This is a particularly relevant question if you're in new territory or creating something new, and more often than...

Identity & Change

Jan 13, 20233 min read

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Time-Rich and in Harmony: What Joining a Choir Taught Me About Joy

Does the lack of time or fear of stepping out of your comfort zone prevent you from experiencing joy and remarkable days? This is a short...

Behind the Practice

Sep 21, 20224 min read

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How To Think Like A Day Crafter

I'm fortunate enough to control my schedule, so why does the 9 to 5 work ethic, among other influences, still loom and cast a shadow over...

Productivity Without Burnout

Mar 19, 20212 min read

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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....

Crafting Better Days

Feb 12, 20212 min read

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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.

Sustainable Self-care

Feb 5, 20214 min read

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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?

Identity & Change

Feb 1, 20212 min read