🛠️ Doing

I am pleased to report that February was the fresh start for 2025 that I hoped for.

If you’ve been reading my Now page updates for a while, you’ll know that I have been experiencing some health niggles (nothing serious; likely hormonal) and my energy has been frustratingly low. This month, I researched and experimented with intermittent fasting/time restricted eating (IF), and the results have been positive. Although I started my research and experimentation at the beginning of the month, I also focussed heavily on my the effects of IF as part of Anne-Laure’s Curiosity Collective (an ephemeral coaching programme I was lucky enough to be selected for; it was fab!). But, what about those results?

My energy has started increasing, and those uncomfortable extra kilos are coming off. My increased energy has allowed me to prioritise cardio fitness this past month and I managed a 5-mile run last weekend relatively comfortably. Next month I will aim to maintain my 5K (3-mile) running fitness as I just booked a race for May (two runs a week) and switch back to prioritising weights. Fasted exercise was way better than I expected, although I still need to experiment more with this to find my personal threshold.

In other news, I have continued my doodling (it feels like this practice is here to stay) and have enjoyed writing my email newsletter in the new format. There has been a noticeable increase in subscribers and open/click rates, so I am taking this as a good sign.

Next week, I am excited to be delivering a workshop to the Building a Second Brain community, and if that goes well, I will share the recording with my email subscribers (make sure you are on my list!). In other collaborations, I have something brewing with the team at Morgen.

In the training and coaching side of my work, effective workload management has been a recurring theme, so I will try to generate some content around that next month.

I think that’s it. I hope you’ve had a great February.

📺 Watching

Goodness me, TV is GREAT at the moment. I am obsessed with season 2 of Severance on Apple TV Plus, and Paradise on Disney Plus is getting very interesting. New seasons of The White Lotus and Reacher just dropped too… there’s just not enough hours! Grey’s Anatomy is, understandably, on pause (my commitment is waning).

🧠 Learning

The course aimed at coaches about PQ (Positive Intelligence) I started last month has not delivered what I hoped. It was free and something of a gamble; I got a small amount of learning from it, and met weekly with a great group of women, so that was enough of a win to see it through to the end (this week). I am taking a few days leave next week so have signed up for a free Open Learn course about poetry (just to do something entirely different and creative).

🎧 Listening

This month, I have been listening to some great audiobooks. You can see what they have been in my library (see the link in “Reading” below). Podcast-wise, it’s been mostly my usual shows, such as Cal Newport’s Deep Questions, Women’s Running, and Happy Place.

📚 Reading

Take a look at what I am reading here: Martine’s Library.