Chatting about
Tips and tools
I’ve mentioned the Comfort\Stretch\Panic zone model before and here I’m going to use it to explain how stepping out of Lockdown could effect us in different ways. This is a great tool to use and it’s going to be really useful for understanding some of the changes that we may be experiencing now. Let’s have…
Read MoreMy holiday at home experiment was… interesting! There must be an art to making staying at home feel like a genuine holiday. After all you are still surrounded by jobs and chores so it is difficult to switch off. If you go away you can’t even see that the bathroom floor needs cleaning, the windows…
Read MoreA comment made by a friend over dinner the other night about some advice she had been given has triggered one of my pondering sessions…. Having started a new role she is now working from home for some of the time and was telling me that she has been advised to setup an office space…
Read More‘Eat That Frog’ and make progress with your to-do list There are many tools and tips out there for beating procrastination and getting down to tackling the to do list. Perhaps the most intriguing and fun sounding is Brian Tracey’s Eat that Frog. If you regularly use to do lists you probably have that one…
Read MoreNew Year, New Options New options is the way I prefer to see the whole business of New Year resolutions. After all the idea is about creating something different for the year ahead. There is something inspiring about that first blank page of the calendar. A fresh start, a new beginning. Of course we can…
Read MoreIn my last post I talked about who has success teams and what roles may need to be filled. Today I’d like to share with you some of my thoughts about how to select the people to fill these roles. Like with any vacancy, this is going to depend on the exact nature of the…
Read MoreHave you noticed how many celebrities have their success teams in place? Yet some how we think we need to reach success before we employ the people who will make our lives easier or who will get us on the right track. I read an article in Tesco magazine about Davina McCall and her team (the online version…
Read MoreAre you ready for a break? It looks as though Pickle is! I’ve never really understood the whole ‘rest is for the weak’ approach. I know some people thrive on very little sleep but for me it’s essential. I know that working for myself makes it harder to take a proper break. In part because…
Read MoreIt’s 3pm on Monday as I write this and overwhelm has already struck (and to think I normally love Monday). Does that sound familiar? Along with all the usual work and home stuff I’ve signed up for two online programs for work, I’ve got a growing list of books I want to read, I’m developing a…
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