I’m just going to put it out there – I’ve been completely silent these past few months. No social posts, no blog posts and no newsletters. And there are a few good reasons… Firstly, my partner and I separated. We’ve been together over a decade and done a lot in Read more…
Think that multi-tasking is a great, productive idea? Think again… It feels pretty damn good to tick task’s off our to-do list, doesn’t it? That little hit of feel-good dopamine has us feeling like we could leap off tall buildings. Or at the very least like we’re winning at life. Read more…
If you regularly read my blog posts, you will have heard me speak about productivity as a self-care practice and that one of my favourite productivity tools is automation. Which leads to the question, how is automating my tasks a self-care practice? Great question! And it all comes back to Read more…
Heads up – it’s truth time… You are the most important person in your life and if you don’t take care of yourself first, your health and business will suffer. How does that idea make you feel? If you found it a little hard to swallow, let’s look at it Read more…
It can be easy to forget that we’re not task-completing robots. We are in fact all human beings with human brains, living human lives. Which means mistakes are normal and to be expected. There’s no one-size fits all… When it comes to productivity there are no right or wrong, one-size Read more…
The end of the year is officially upon us. For a lot of us that means frantic shopping trips and trying to fit lots of things into small spaces of time. Christmas parties, lunches, school concerts and assemblies. Winding up projects so we can start the new year with a Read more…
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, once famously said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln Now old Abe was not (at least to my knowledge) an avid woodsman. But he was a Read more…
Distraction is a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. According to Google I like to think of distraction as a passive concept. It’s not something you actively do (like procrastination) but is actually something that happens almost by accident. We all know that distraction is bad and Read more…
How do you deal with frustration and procrastination during your work day? Do you take a coffee break? Walk around the block? Do a few yoga stretches? Or are you like most of us and jump into your social media accounts to check in with what the world’s up to Read more…
In the past few months, one of the CRM platforms that I and a number of my clients use and love, released a whole new suite of sophisticated notifications. My advice to my clients – turn them all off! And here’s why… Nothing in nature goes beep.Cows moo…Insects chirp…Waves roar…But Read more…