“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. ==================================================================== Successful famous people often have a regular routine. Working steadily on your main goal is clearly an important part…
Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean, Chaper 8: Online all the time
“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. ====================================================================Facebook can get out of hand. Not just late-to-cook-dinner out of hand, but 5-hours-a-day,-sneaking-off-work-to-check-it-until-you’re-fired,-then-sneaking-peeks-at-it-during-your-session-with-a-psychologist out of hand. Some people set…
The new website’s up
Well the new website’s up, although I’m sure there are broken links and missing images. I’ll be addingmroe later, but meanwhile, feel free to go have a nosy around https://sheilacrosby.com
“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” Chapter 7: When habits kill
“Making Habits, Breaking Habits” by Jeremy Dean. Full disclosure: If you buy the book through the link, it won’t cost you any more, but I’ll get a few pennies. But my main motivation for doing this is to understand the book properly. What follows is my summary of the chapter. ==================================================================== Habits can be lethal, but no, he doesn’t mean smoking. Pilots have to go through a long check-list before…
Do I dare?
Only three weeks ago I managed a quick and perfect installation of WordPress to get ready for my blog upgrades. Today I tried to do it for real, and it all went splat. Perhaps because this was on top of the old site instead of a nice new one. I have a backup of the site. Maybe I just need to take a very deep breath, clean it all out,…
A conference in Saudi Arabia
OK, so what do you think a conference on “Women in Society” in Saudi Arabia looks like? I was guessing that it looked like laundry bags (and sounded very interesting). My son guessed that it would be an empty room. Nope. It’s all men.