❤️‍🩹 Slowly finding my rhythm again and getting back to “normal.”

🍛 Batch cooking is done for the week: Lamb pasta and Spanish Egg Frittata. With a week’s worth of meals sorted, the goal now is simply to stick to the plan without deviation!

📽️ I watched Sirens on Netflix recently. It started strong but felt a bit bland by the end. I’ve noticed lately that films and series aren’t exciting me the way they used to.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Went on a solo trip to Glasgow, Loch Lomond & Inverness. The plan was to do a personal retreat, but it didn’t quite work out. I was dealing with some personal things that left me feeling drained and sad.

💔 Still emotionally drained and a little broken. I hope my heart and soul mend and heal with time. Time, after all, has a way of softening emotional scars.

🍗 Cooked chicken tikka masala. It was delicious.

📽️ Watched Subservience on Netflix. It had the potential to be an exhilarating film, but it fell flat and dragged with a predictable screenplay.

📖 Started reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

📻 Started listening to Stories Sell by Matthew Dicks on Audible. Feeling inspired to start Homework for Life.

🏰 A photo from the top of the Inverness Castle.

I’m thinking of starting a practice of jotting down Daily Focus Beats and Weekly Reflect Beats using the Doing to Done framework. I’ll try this as an experiment for the next two weeks.

A few things to note:

• Aim for one small win
• One thing I’m grateful for
• One thing I learned today — the key here is “I learned”, not something I’m writing just to share
• Any additional thoughts I want to capture or good things I want to share
• Possibly add a photo at the end

Here’s yesterday’s (1st Apr) Tiny Reflections:

🏆 Daily Win: Decided to hit 10K steps for 30 days. I’ve been doing it for the past few days, and I’m slowly getting into the routine.

💝 Gratitude: My home treadmill.

👨‍🎓 Learning: When I’m emotionally drained and stressed, I tend to turn to my comfort food of choice — pizza.

🕊️ Thoughts: I’m trying this tiny experiment to journal a bit more and spend less time doomscrolling. This reflection format seems to work well for me — it’s quick and easy. I can also share it if I want. The focus of this daily reflection is to notice the good things happening around me and prime myself to keep noticing them.

Finished reading: The Notebook by Roland Allen 📚

I listened to this on Audible. The book didn’t engage me, and I found myself getting bored halfway through. I ended up skipping a few chapters and only listening to the ones that interested me.

One thing that really stuck with me was Expressive Writing by James Pennebaker. I journal quite consistently and prefer a stream-of-consciousness style of writing. I’ve fallen off the habit recently, but this has inspired me to pick it up again.

⭐️⭐️

🥳 Turn 41 on 26th March.

🎯 Attended Doing to Done Productivity Masterclass.

💔 Emotionally drained over the weekend.

🚶‍♂️ Decided to move for 1hr daily. Walking, running, stretching etc. Anything goes!

🎧 Finished The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen on Audible. It didn’t engage me. I skipped chapters and listened to few that interested me. ⭐️⭐️

🏡 Loved watching an Aussie Poet’s Tiny House video. The man is super inspirational. A true Aussie mate.

Finished reading: Death Row by Freida McFadden 📚

I’m really confused after reading this book. Talia is on death row for murdering her husband, and from the first page, I was intrigued. The pace definitely kept me going, but I was so disappointed by the epilogue. It left me frustrated—did everything just happen for nothing? I’m not happy with how this novella ended. Read it if you want to hit your reading goal, but otherwise, it isn’t worth the time.

In short: it’s fast-paced, but the epilogue left me completely confused and frustrated.

My rating - ⭐️⭐️ / 5

As I step into the New Year 2026, I’ve renewed my Micro.blog subscription and I’m truly glad to be back in the community.

This year, I’m starting with a single focus word: Consistency. My intention is to make small, steady improvements in all the good things—habits, relationships, and moments—that help make life more meaningful, joyful, reflective and grounded.

Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2026. ✨