Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash This week I talked with a client about that dreaded feeling that comes over her on Mondays. Mondayitis can hit anytime but many people really feel it on Mondays – that feeling of “here we go again and it’s never ending”, generally accompanied by “what’s the … [Read more...]
I'm excited to be holding another vision board play day! Spend the day and create your 2016 vision board. If you've never done a vision board before you'll be surprised at how easy it is to do and how inspired you'll be to bring it all to life in 2016. Create your 2016! The … [Read more...]
Getting Organized at Work - 24 Lessons to Set Goals, Establish Priorities, and Manage Your Time The Employee Handbook for Enhancing Corporate Performance McGraw-Hill Professional Education series By Ken Zeigler (2005) This is a really easy to read book of 24 lessons (as suggested by the title) … [Read more...]
Do you ever look at how far you’ve come? Or are you so focused on what you haven’t done yet that you can’t even see how far you’ve come? Far too often I’m guilty of not seeing the good things I’ve done and when I’m in that frame of mind I see only the mistakes I’ve made and, in that frame of mind … [Read more...]
Living life as a house sitter has been a great way to simplify my own life. I was done with working hard, getting nowhere with not much to show for it and feeling stuck. I knew that if I was to grow and experience more of the world it could not be from that space. Something needed to shift. Life … [Read more...]
If you’ve been following my personal page, you will have seen my photos for this project #100DaysHappy. What a journey this was and the results were unexpected and surprising! There is a period during the process of change where things really turn to pot. Intellectually I know this. It was only … [Read more...]
Last time, I talked about routines and how they can simplify your life. Repeated regularly they are great time savers. Here's a couple for the work day. 1. What key tasks can you turn into a routine? If it's a regular task perhaps it can become part of your natural routine, something you can … [Read more...]
Ten ideas to declutter your mind and get your brain thinking about something else: Purge or brain dump - Write a list as long as you need to get everything out of your head. Use pen and paper, or software (eg Evernote). Record it on your smart phone. Share the load with a friend or … [Read more...]
Decluttering the mind has many of the same benefits as decluttering a physical space. As the work is internal you'd think you might not see any physical signs. Let's run through some of the benefits and see how that can translate into physical changes. The benefits of an uncluttered mind: … [Read more...]
After having been away for a week and feeling some overwhelm with all the new ideas and excitement it generated, I've realised that, of course, I can't do everything until I declutter what's going in my mind. Then the priorities re-order, the focus returns and the action starts. Here are some of … [Read more...]