Is Twitter Dying? (Is it dead already?)

In the book The Artist’s Way it’s known as synchronicity.

Through absolutely no planning of my own, the topic of today’s post is a perfect case in point to what I wrote last time when considering the future of this blog. Specifically, the point I made in favour of maintaining some semblance of it indefinitely:

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Adventures in Reading: All Ears (At Last!) for Audiobooks

It was taking a course in speed-reading that finally made me try audiobooks.

My library of audiobooks in the Audible app

In my previous blog post, I wrote about my adventures and outcomes in taking MindValley’s 21-day Super Reading course last November.

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A Rapid, Last-Minute Reset and Replication: My Fourth-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In

As the famous saying goes, it ain’t over till it’s over.

After my mediocre showing in Q3, with its debilitating heat during both the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome and the hot-hot east coast where I later fled home expecting cooler climes, I was determined to finish the year on a positive note.

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Starting the Year Off Right When So Much in the World is Still So Wrong: My First-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In

Engine start-stop

The first quarter of the first full year of the Covid-19 global pandemic is now over.

Setting and achieving your goals during a pandemic is a delicate balance. Always with goal-setting you want to find the sweet spot between ambitious and realistic, between things that will challenge you but you’ll still actually be able to do.

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One Last Remembrance of a Year Best Forgotten: My 2020 Year-End Goals Recap/Accounting

Never was a day planner’s title so unfitting for the year 2020

It seemed to take the better part of a decade, but the year 2020 is finally over.

Indeed, once December hit, the year seemed to make up for its previous glacial progress due to Covid-19, at once jetting by and forcing me to likewise race to try to finish my outstanding resolutions for the year.

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Beautiful Things Take Time: My 2021 New Year’s Resolutions

I chose the cover quote of my 2021 planner with extreme care.

This wasn’t just to counteract last year’s wildly inaccurate “Grand Plans” amidst a year that proved to hold anything but for the whole world due to Covid-19.

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