A journal in progress

Ordinary days, written down.

Notes on work, habits and the ordinary week. Not a system. Just what I am still doing.

Piyush Srivastava a mug in a sunlit room

Piyush Srivastava, Cheltenham

Morning kitchen counter with coffee, keys, notebook and gym bag

Ordinary days.

What to expect from our website & blog

in it. Notes from an ordinary working week, not a finished system.

Mind, body, and the approach. Three places on the site.

Cup of tea and a notebook on a windowsill by a rainy window

Mind

The stories I tell myself on a normal week, and the ones I have to put down.

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Trainers, kettlebell and water bottle on a bench at dawn

Body

Focus, patience and recovery. They run through the same body that sits in the meetings.

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Quiet autumn residential street at dawn with fallen leaves

Approach

Experience, not lessons. It is what I tried. It may not work for you.

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Most of it is an ordinary week

Gym in the morning, the school run, work until about six, then football with my daughter. The notes are what is left of days like that. An ugly week is not when I need a new system.

Football boots on an evening pitch next to a work bag
Red traffic light blurred through a rainy windscreen at dusk

When I cannot force it

A hard stretch does not always look like a crisis. Sometimes the light does not turn, and pushing does not help. I wrote that down instead of pretending I had a plan.

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“An ugly week is not when I need a new system. The normal day already feels like too much.”

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From the latest note

Quiet desk by a rainy window at dusk with a lamp on

The latest note

What I still do on an ugly week. A normal day that already feels like too much, and what I still do anyway.

What I still do

All the notes

Short pieces on work, habits and mindset. Nothing needs to be read in order.

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