Six types of Busyness – which describes you best?
With more labour-saving and time-saving devices at our disposal than ever, how are we chronically just so busy? People talk of being busy, feeling stressed or out of control. We look for solutions to our time management but the truth is, busyness comes in a variety of...
Busy or Productive?
Being productive is not the same as being busy. Productivity requires that we have a sense of focus or at least an awareness of the desired outcome. If you start each day with clarity about even one thing that you would like to achieve that day, your chances of having...
Catastrophising!
It's true, our brains are wired for certainty. A lack of certainty tends to trigger a threat response, at least a sense of heightened alertness, maybe increased anxiety or a sense of dread. Fear and anxiety are different. Like many other animals we can sense fear in...
Tools to move beyond Imposter Syndrome
Yes, me too, a recovering imposter. For much of my earlier professional career as an academic researcher I felt like an imposter, quietly competent yet secretly certain that I wasn't good enough to have that role or position, afraid that people would find out I was a...
The value of education
OK, I confess, I'm addicted to learning. Or at the very least, I engage in the activity of learning at almost every opportunity, when there is no obvious financial benefit and the outcome for me is sometimes difficult to define. I just love learning. I do have...
The joys of serial single-tasking
We've all heard about multi-tasking. The chances are that you're doing it right now. You might be sitting in a meeting room waiting for the action to start. You maybe introduced yourself to the new arrival who entered the room a minute ago before breaking off to just...