Dealing with distractions by choosing 5
If you want to develop your power to focus, as soon as you feel the temptation to move away choose to stay, choose another five – five more lines, five more paragraphs, five more goes, five more minutes.
The impossibility of doing it all
Do you ever wish you could do it all? I start most of my Time Management training workshops by reminding people that “Doing it all” is not the goal of my training. In my professional area It’s not really possible for someone to do everything, the best we can plan for is to do the most important things. So the skills I share include how to prioritise as much as how to manage time.
New Year’s Eve 2020, thank you for…
Because gratitude is important.
Sometimes I want to kick back against gratitude – If I’m honest, there’s a whole lot of stuff that I am so not grateful for and I’d change in the blink of an eye if I could. But to focus on that is the source of great suffering. I need to see that stuff honestly, for what it is and learn to either, fight back strategically or to adjust and adapt. Some parts of this last year have been hard and cruel and I am so glad to have survived them…
