Tags

🎨 Creative Tag
If I don't create something I've noticed that I don't feel good. Unfortunately I'm not a very creative person nor am I particularly talented so this might be more of an adventure into trying on different creative hats more than anything. It's meant to be just for fun and a reminder to slow down and be in the moment.

🥗 Health Tag
The younger you are the more you take your life for granted. I'm feeling that more and more these days. I want to improve some aspects of my overall well-being so that I can enjoy life. For me it's not necessarily about expanding life but feeling better and more capable during the time I do have. Why make choices that make life harder on yourself. Main goals including functional strength, movement, weight loss and regaining some flexibility. In addition to this I want to have a higher, cleaner and happier overall energy level internally.

🗣️ Language Tag
I live in a country that speaks English but as a second language. English is my native language and I am far from a natural when it comes to learning another language. I find it extremely difficult to do. Some people seem tuned into it more easily than others, so I am trying to teach myself ways to improve my experience on the journey to improve language acquisition and comprehension. I include English in this because as an Australian bogan I can barely speak it! 😀

👨‍💻 Technology Tag
My relationship with technology is complicated. I need it to pay the bills but I only see it as an ever evolving tool that I need to be proficient at. I do not have much of a passion for it on it's own merits but I'm more interested in it's results and abilities. My daily activities are old fashioned but my skill base is highly technology focused. I think this helps me but I do find myself getting obsessive if I'm not careful. For this reason I made a technology category to try to keep my targets and goals clear and not become overwhelmed by the ever changing requirements of such a demanding field. You can expect to read about things like automation, containerisation, Linux server systems, python programming and artificial intelligence or the occasional machine learning or maybe I'll just moan and groan about the whole thing - we'll see.

✈️ Travel Tag
For literally half of my life now I've been travelling and living abroad with the occasional stop back into my home country (of which I have a great pride and appreciation for). I am happy to have found what I was seeking in my current country of residence (Taiwan) a country of which one of many wonderful benefits is the ability to 'hop over' to nearby countries for a weekend without much hassle. I will use this category to document some of my trips as they come on occasion.

🧠 Mindware Tag
Human beings have an ability that as far as we know is unique to us alone, we are capable of using our consciousness to adapt, change and improve ourselves - essentially upgrading according to our own definitions of what we find ideal. Our body is adjustable to a point but someone cannot will their curly hair to be straight, green eyes to be blue, height to be taller or cells to react to sunlight differently. We might make some changes within what our body allows such as losing weight, gaining muscle, tanning, haircuts - but overall we hit a certain wall eventually when it comes to our body. To use a computational analogy our body is our hardware. You can modify it and even overclock it slightly, but overall its set in its ways. Our conscious mind is more like software. We can upgrade our mind, improve it and change upon it by improving the way we think and process things. It can become habitual based on the structural 'firmware' (philosophies, beliefs and values) you nurture. We all nurture beliefs and values whether we like it or not. The human mind doesn't allow you not to. It's our choices to actively select the helpful ones or otherwise life will select them for you through your own passive inputs. I don't find these as helpful. Overall I am actually not very good at keeping the right mindset, so I am going to do my best to improve upon it the best I can - which is probably the first step actually to installing new mindware.

🫶 Appreciation Tag:
This is the simplest of all the tags as it encompass anything that I feel appreciation for.

🐥 Random Tag:

If it is completely random or doesn't seem to fit well in other categories then you can expect to find it here.