Welcome to blog one hundred! I honestly didn’t think I would ever make it here. It has taken me over six years of off again, on again blogging to hit this milestone. That’s about one blog every three and a bit weeks. Wow, calculating that feels like I’ve posted way more than I realised. Maybe, […]
Over the years I’ve written a lot about the tactics of habit building. Which is not that surprising considering my first introduction to the idea of self development was Tim Ferriss, the king of personal hacking. Underpinning those strategies is the idea that building habits is hard. You need a game plan because otherwise you’ll […]
Recently I qualified as a life coach. As I headed towards the end of the six month course, I was a little nervous. How would I manage without the structure of the course? Can I maintain the momentum I’ve built? What if I just stop and all this effort is for nothing? Sound familiar? It’s […]
We all have times where we hit the wall and being productive is the last thing we feel like doing. For me, it’s really important to honour how we’re feeling, which is why I focus on productive flow (meaning, defining productivity for ourselves). However, there’s no getting away from the fact that as career women, […]
Productivity isn’t being busy. Productivity isn’t being exhausted. Productivity isn’t about maximising every single millisecond. Productivity isn’t even about output or how much you achieve or how quickly. You could do the crossword in your fastest time yet but for what? Why does that matter? You could complete a hundred crosswords a day which certainly […]
The last time you had a fight with someone, did you stop and ask yourself, what is my role in this? The last time you made a mistake at work, did you ask yourself, what could I have done better or differently? The last time you didn’t get the result you wanted, were you honest […]
At the start of the year, I found myself contemplating a goal around shopping and my possessions. Considering implementing a one in, one out policy. Or a shopping ban for January. Or fix it February focusing on repairing things I already own. As I evaluated different options and tried to figure out what was best […]
Welcome to the New Year! How is it feeling so far? Hitting the ground running with clear goals or taking it a bit slower? I’m certainly easing my way into 2019 and feel better for it. The start of a new year provides an easy reminder to pause, reflect, reevaluate but the thirty first of December […]
There is a lot of content out there at the moment about doing an end of year review. How to do one. When to do it. What questions to ask. Stand on your head and get a PhD in self-reflection first. It’s a lot of noise and it’s a lot of pressure to do something […]
Who here gets the Monday morning dread? You wake up, know you need to get a million things done but don’t know where to start. You drag your feet or switch between half a dozen tasks, underutilising precious time. Sound familiar? Monday’s don’t have to be this way. The secret to making Monday’s your favourite […]
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