I listen to a lot of podcasts, they provide a great combination of education, entertainment and company when I’m out walking or cycling alone (I reserve listening to audio books for holidays). Yesterday I listened to a particularly interesting podcast that described the concept of Temptation Bundling: the idea of...
I’ve been in a severe flare for the last 37 days, a traumatic experience that’s required quite a lot of resilience to get through. Every day I’ve had to fight with myself to overcome my natural tendency to curl up in a ball and instead force myself to keep moving,...
On this blog I’m always going on about living the best day I can, every day, not living like every day is my last – which seems to extreme – but consciously planning to live well; to avoid going through life on autopilot; to avoid accepting a gradual decline in...
Further to my post earlier in the week, I’ve been reducing my Pregabalin dose gradually over the last few days. I’m much sharper in the mornings and the evenings now. I’ve been going through my normal Caffe Nero ‘work’ routine and I can’t believe how much time I have. Only...
Over the last month I’ve doubled my dose of Pregabalin, one of the medications that I use. Within a few days I noticed a significant improvement in pain (the desired result) but a strange side effect, the time taken to achieve any cognitively demanding task significantly increased, by at least...
Over the last year I’ve used the Coach Me app on my iPhone and iPad to track all of the aspects of my life that I want to promote or prevent. For example I wanted to have more family meals and less high pain days, I wanted to spend more...
Make my health my first job, I’m in the fortunate position that I’m financially able to make recovering my health my first job, but intellectually this has been difficult to come to terms with. Last year I made some steps in the right direction, this year I’m going to double...
I’ve achieved a lot in 2014, but there are a few things that I’ve failed on, I’m intending to try and fix these. But I’m also planning to be a little kinder to myself; to reduce the number of objectives I have; to worry less about work; to leave more...
In December last year I decided that this year was going to mark a change; a year that I needed to take seriously; to plan; and measure. This shift in my focus came for three big reasons: My health was starting to decline again, after a few years of improvement...
I know I’m getting old, surprisingly this isn’t because my body has lots of aches and pains; because I’m forgetful; stuck in my ways; no – I know this because of how I spend my time. A recent study bought this home to me, it found: Retirees spend more than...