My first experiences trying to meditate • February 10, 2019
For the last week, I have been spending 10 minutes every day, trying to meditate using the what I have learned from the book about Mindfulness so far. What are the challenges I have? When and where to do it? When I am not at work, I did it during my younger son's nap time in the afternoon, or after he has fallen asleep. At office, I was looking for a free phone booth and went there after lunch…
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Mindfulness - The Practice • February 10, 2019
"Take10" This is the section in the book, where it explains the approach of taking just 10 minutes every day and mediate. For my own learnings, here is the summary, copied straight from the book: Getting ready: Find a place to sit down comfortably, keeping a straight back. Ensure you'll be left undisturbed during your mediation (switch off your mobile). Set the time for 10 minutes Checking-in…
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Mindfulness - The Approach • January 18, 2019
Insight 1 Imagine your mind is a highway with many lanes, and you are sitting at the side of the highway, easily watching your thoughts (i.e. vehicles) pass by. Insight 2 The mind is the sky. Your thoughts are the clouds. There can be heavy clouds, light clouds, white clouds, dark-grey clouds, but at the end, and as we all know what happens when you fly in a plane, the sky is always blue, no…
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Mindfulness - Let the journey begin • January 13, 2019
As mentioned in my 2018 retrospective entry , I want to focus on Meditation and Mindfulness this year. First stop: Reading THE HEADSPACE GUIDE TO MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS . I completed the first chapter, and can say that I am pretty much convinced that, if done properly, this will have a big impact on me. Here are a few quotes from the book, that totally resonated with me: At the time I just…
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Retrospective on my year of 2018 • January 12, 2019
Inspired by Jason Lengstorf's blog entry , here is my own 2018 retrospective. I am publishing this in the hopes that I will be more accountable and therefore hopefully increase the changes of actually achieving my resolutions! What went well? 2018 was actually a very good year for me and here are the things that are standing out: 1. Managed to take care of our baby boy (without any outside help…
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Blog created! • January 03, 2019
While I continue to work on exactly defining and prioritising my 2019 resolutions, I went ahead and created my first blog. I read a lot about about GatsbyJS and done some prototypes with it at work, so it was clear to me that I want to use GatsbyJS to build my own blog. It truly was extremely easy to create it (and yes, it also is blazing fast!). It literally requires a single "click-on-a…
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My (draft) 2019 Resolutions • December 31, 2018
Contribute to any open source project Become a member of a scrum team (permanent? Floater? “Whenever I have time”?) Become a more hands-on engineer (focus on a technology? Which one?) Start a blog to document progress Blog about the agile transformation of my team Properly define my role and agree it with my managers Become a better coach/mentor for my direct reports (regular 1:1 with all of them…
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