Hi MAPS this month, next week, is Monday, 12th February at 7.30pm. If you can join, please let me know as soon as possible. I wrote a longer piece about the Elephant and Rider that you can read here. In it, I talk about the elephant having two voices...

Hi Is there a conflict in our thinking and behaviour – between fast and slow, old and new, automatic and controlled or chimp and human? There are certainly a lot of perplexing qualities to the material Day Crafting is dealing with – us and our contex...

Hi MAPS this month, next week, is Monday, 8th January at 7.30pm. If you can join, please let me know as soon as possible. Please let me know if you have a question you'd like us to focus on. One request from last time is to look at how Day Crafting m...

Hi Here's a reflective exercise designed to enhance your memories of 2023. One of the earliest ideas I had for Day Crafting was being able to design perfect days – or Remarkable Days as I’ve called them in the Body-clock Workbook. Being able to desig...

Hi Have you noticed a lot more lists around at this time of year – presents to get, shopping to do, who to send cards to or not? I've kept my mother's handwritten version of the latter, in columns, going back to the mid 90's with additions and crossi...

Hi MAPS this month, next week, is Monday, 11th December at 7.30pm. If you can join, please let me know ASAP. It's possibly a long shot as it's December, and I know a lot of you will be busy, but if there are a few of us or more, then I'd like to see...

Hi Advent begins today. I invite you to join a reflective journey – the Day Crafting Advent Pen Labyrinth. This special activity infuses your days with mindfulness, intention and a sense of calm amidst the festive hustle.Introducing the Day Crafting...

Hi Thank you for taking part in NOvember.If you found time and motivation to engage with the materials each week and put some of them into practice – well done! Would you please take a minute to complete this end survey?NOvember end surveyIf you want...

Hi I've read some research that says people get busy to a set level of 120% to match everyone around them. Only then do we find it easier to say no. This is also an affiliator / reciprocity trait. If everyone else is at 120% busy, I must match that b...

Hi So far, the practical exercises (all on the PDFs) in NOvember have covered learning about our default behaviour, our purpose and setting intentions to make us better prepared to say no when the time comes. This week the exercise is focussed on the...