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, […]
Recently I’ve had a couple of conversations about change. In one I said, ‘I don’t know what I’m worried about, change is so constant for me, I’m used to this.’ Context: wondering whether I had capacity to take on something new with all the change happening in the next few months. In the second conversation, […]
When was the last time you said something like ‘I just need to prioritise’? Or ‘I just need more time.’ We say these things so often that they’re almost devoid of meaning. It’s like saying we’re good. It doesn’t tell us anything anymore. Ironically, to actually prioritise, we need to prioritise prioritising. We won’t magically […]
You may have seen the ‘quiet quitting‘ convo happening in the media right now. If you haven’t, ‘quiet quitting‘ is supposedly when employees passively-aggressively refuse to work longer hours or outside of their designated responsibilities. i.e. that doing your job, is some kind of silent rebellion. Madness! I’m not alone in this but what I […]
Working in IT, I’ve seen a LOT of resignations over the past twelve months. Certainly from my point of view, The Great Resignation is alive and well. And being a career coach in that environment, means I’ve had a lot of conversations about do I stay or do I go? So I felt like it […]
Self care is such a buzzword. I feel like it’s overused to be almost meaningless. Yet here I am writing an article on the relationship between self care and productivity. Two things that don’t seem like they go together. Which is the point. When did doing things to take care of ourselves and live a […]
Job searching can be hard. Fact. The uncertainty. The rejection. The interviews you never hear back from (seriously what’s with that?). Part of what makes it difficult is so many of us don’t even know what we’re looking for. We’re not sure what our next career move should be. We’re more concerned what we think […]
A month ago I finished a three month group Mastermind and made more progress in my business than in the previous year. Two years ago I invested in a relationship coach and completely changed all of my beliefs surrounding relationships. Now I have the best friendships imaginable and clear understanding of what I want in […]
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 […]
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