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Tools & Blueprints
Here are practical posts filled with simple tools, exercises, and ideas that you can try right away. Whether it's daily reviews or blueprint sketches, these are tried-and-true methods to help you experiment with your day and make it more rewarding.
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%?...
Aug 132 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: Design Notes
A notebook to capture your Day Crafting practice, design thinking, intentions and journaling. The essential companion notebook for...
Mar 122 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
System Debt: One Hidden Cause of Stressful Workdays You Can Pay Off
When the systems you set up in a hurry start making your days harder, it might be time to pause, pay off some system debt, and craft a...
May 26, 20243 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
A to-do list of to-do lists
Lists are not the best solution at the productivity and information management system level. For that, I use a Kanban system like Trello....
Jan 22, 20242 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...
Jan 21, 202415 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
Day Crafting: The Self-care Workbook
Crafting involves intentionally focusing on each step of the process, an attention to detail that leads to a well-formed product. Crafted...
Sep 20, 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
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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