Studio Espresso Weekly - 27/01📬
🎁 "Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax." - Mark Black
Good morning friends 👋
I hope you all had a good weekend.
I had a productive week, we had someone new join our team this week, I met up with some friends I hadn't seen in a while so all in all, so not bad 🙂.
In a house-update, we had both had both our electricity ánd water certified this week so things are definitely moving along (can't move in if we don't have power and getting that hooked up is out of our control so fingers crossed we can get an appointment soon 🤞).
Spending my time more consciously
I don't really believe in big new year's resolutions or making big changes on an arbitrary date but this year I'm going to try and change some things.
The past couple of months have been really busy and stressful, both at work and at home and that left me feeling burned out on the things I like to spend my downtime on: riding my bike, running, reading, building side projects.
Not that I didn't have any time for those, I just ended up spent on the couch more evenings than I'd like to do, doing much of nothing in particular. To then beat myself up about sitting around all evening doing nothing. That might sound familiar to some of you 🙂.
Since the first months of 2023 are looking equally exciting and stressful (finishing our house and then I'm moving in with my girlfriend), I'm going to try to get back to some basics and see where that takes me.
1. Move more
The most important thing I (can) do to improve my overall state of mind and my mental health is sports. Right now that mostly translates to riding my bike, be it indoors on rollers or outside when the weather gets better. But I would love to add some running back into the mix.
As a first "mini" goal, I want to join a 200km ride with some friends in early March, that gives me 2 months to build up my shape again.
2. Build more
I've build and I maintain a bunch of Craft CMS plugins and most of them are in sort of a maintenance-only-mode.
I have some improvements in mind for a couple of them that could really take them to the next level so I want to get back ti building new ideas instead of just patching minor issues.
Plan more?
I was taking about all this with my girlfriend at the end of last year and that prompted her to get me a planner/journal for Christmas 🙂 (which I may write something about once I start using it).
Off course I'm not going to be time-blocking every 5 minutes of my free time, but having a tool that I can use to look ahead (yes, any calendar does this as well, I know 😉) and to reflect on the days past, will hopefully help me to get a little bit more structure in my weeks.
Web links of the week
- A Beautiful Typographic Mini Golf Game
- Documenting knowledge: a guide to successful note-taking
- ChatGPT in the classroom (podcast)
- Light Painted Landscapes
That's all for this week! Have a good week and talk to you soon 👋
Jan