The Monday Read: Living Life Now
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently. To be honest, I have overthought things my whole life, but recently I have been thinking about health, mortality, and making the most of today. I’ve also been reading a lot about AI, and that makes me almost as nervous as climate change. Cheerful stuff. In terms […]
The Monday Read: Health and Fitness Edition
Now that I am unemployed (according to my wife) I have been focusing on health and fitness. Or, at least in my case, unhealth and unfitness. On the health front, I am still committed to getting my weight down to a healthy 77kg by September (I have not been under 83kg in my adult life). […]
The Monday Read: Back on Track
The weather and the cherry blossoms have been glorious. Classes started at my wife’s school without too many incidents, I finally managed to book a flight to see my friends and family in Europe, after two decades of trying I finally have official ID with just my kanji alias on it (kokumin kenkou hoken card), […]
The Monday Read: Sakura
The cherry blossoms hit Sendai a few weeks early this year, but they are looking great. Had some wonderful weather this weekend although I only managed to grab a few minutes to enjoy them. It’s been BUSY, so much so that I missed both my goals this week and paid the penalty (see below). Will […]
The Monday Read: Mantras
I was idly thinking about mantras the other day in the shower, and came up with the following that have served me well: Realising that I choose to do most of the things I do makes it easier to do them, knowing what is important to me and what isn’t let’s me use my time […]
The Monday Read: Ball is Rolling
My financial incentive habit creating system is working well (see below). I went to jiu-jitsu three times this week, even though I am still slightly injured and very busy with work. There is no way I would have gone without the public commitment and financial penalty. Today I got on my rowing machine for the […]
The Monday Read: March Madness
March this year has been really warm and the pollen so far has been dreadful. My younger granddaughter (4) is suffering terribly with congestion and painful eyes. But the weather has been really nice. Walking/cycling to work as been really nice these last couple of weeks. How is your March going? For me it’s one […]
The Monday Read: Getting Things Done
We were at a wedding on Saturday in Chiba. Ended up being a nice break going down and staying the night before. Always good to get out of the daily grind. Doing the things you want I was talking to a friend the other day and I realised that I am not getting round to […]
The Monday Read: Life-changing books
A life-changing book is not a term to throw around lightly. I feel like I might have read one this week (details below). Other life-changing books include Your Money or Your Life, one of the first personal finance books I read, and one that might have had the largest effect. Another was Minako Takekawa’s iDeCo […]
The Monday Read: Happy Birthday
The Monday Read is five years old! RetireJapan TV This month’s edition of RetireJapan TV will be live at 20:00 tonight (Monday 20th). Hope to see you there, and if you haven’t subscribed to the channel yet, what are you waiting for? YouTube Thank you for your support of the RetireJapan YouTube channel. We published […]