Category Archives: Stress

How The Threat Of Lay Off Can Scare You Sh*tless (And What To Do About It)

So, there have been like three rounds of job cuts at your place already over the last couple of years. And just when you were beginning to think it might finally be safe enough to move from your rented apartment to buying your own place, they put you under notice of lay off again. The…

What Keeps You Awake At Night?

The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly. We discovered an interesting thing. Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am. There could be two reasons for this: Either you’re so passionate about what you’re doing that you’re burning the candle on…

How To Maintain Your Work Detox In 5 Minutes A Day

Post six of  The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and by now some of the angst and overwhelm you’d been feeling about work is starting to recede as you whip your work and life into shape. The Detox In Brief Here’s the journey we’ve been on that’s helping you get a grip on things: First, Set…

Time Shifting For Success

If you’ve been reading The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and following along with the exercises, I suspect you’re already starting to suss out that how you’re focussing your time and energy right now is out of step with what you really want. In fact, if you take a look at the ideal week you created…

How Is Time Spending You?

So, if you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series, you’ve built a picture of what you want from your worklife, and what you need to focus on to achieve it. But what are you currently focussing on? You’ll get the answer to this question by looking at how you’re spending your time. Bottom line,…

The Critical Few Activities That Need Your Focus

If you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series so far, you’ll have a good idea now of what you want to achieve from your working life. You may have noticed, as a few of the commentors did, that the questions around goals in the last post were deliberately open. They did not ask you…

First, Set Yourself Goals

This is the second post in The Two-Week Work Detox, a series of 6 posts coming at you this week and next. Often at work and in life we become so accustomed to living out other people’s expectations of us we spend most of our time on automatic pilot doing task after task without consideration…

Introducing The Two-Week Work Detox Series

Like I said in The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need, a lot of people around me are frazzled right now, and ready for a holiday. The problem is that, unless you do something fundamental to change your status quo, the feel good factor from your expensive break will last about two days. Then you’re once…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part two

10 ways to be okay at work If you worked through the 10 coaching questions in the first post in this series, you’ll have a much better understanding of what stresses you at work and why. You’ll also know what you’d prefer to believe about yourself around work, and how you’d prefer to feel. But…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part one

10 coaching questions to help you take back the power This is the first of a special three-part series on tackling stress at work. Stress at work is big news. Figures from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive, reported in the Evening Standard last week, indicate that intolerable office hours and excessive work demands triggered…

Category Archives: Stress

How The Threat Of Lay Off Can Scare You Sh*tless (And What To Do About It)

So, there have been like three rounds of job cuts at your place already over the last couple of years. And just when you were beginning to think it might finally be safe enough to move from your rented apartment to buying your own place, they put you under notice of lay off again. The…

What Keeps You Awake At Night?

The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly. We discovered an interesting thing. Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am. There could be two reasons for this: Either you’re so passionate about what you’re doing that you’re burning the candle on…

How To Maintain Your Work Detox In 5 Minutes A Day

Post six of  The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and by now some of the angst and overwhelm you’d been feeling about work is starting to recede as you whip your work and life into shape. The Detox In Brief Here’s the journey we’ve been on that’s helping you get a grip on things: First, Set…

Time Shifting For Success

If you’ve been reading The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and following along with the exercises, I suspect you’re already starting to suss out that how you’re focussing your time and energy right now is out of step with what you really want. In fact, if you take a look at the ideal week you created…

How Is Time Spending You?

So, if you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series, you’ve built a picture of what you want from your worklife, and what you need to focus on to achieve it. But what are you currently focussing on? You’ll get the answer to this question by looking at how you’re spending your time. Bottom line,…

The Critical Few Activities That Need Your Focus

If you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series so far, you’ll have a good idea now of what you want to achieve from your working life. You may have noticed, as a few of the commentors did, that the questions around goals in the last post were deliberately open. They did not ask you…

First, Set Yourself Goals

This is the second post in The Two-Week Work Detox, a series of 6 posts coming at you this week and next. Often at work and in life we become so accustomed to living out other people’s expectations of us we spend most of our time on automatic pilot doing task after task without consideration…

Introducing The Two-Week Work Detox Series

Like I said in The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need, a lot of people around me are frazzled right now, and ready for a holiday. The problem is that, unless you do something fundamental to change your status quo, the feel good factor from your expensive break will last about two days. Then you’re once…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part two

10 ways to be okay at work If you worked through the 10 coaching questions in the first post in this series, you’ll have a much better understanding of what stresses you at work and why. You’ll also know what you’d prefer to believe about yourself around work, and how you’d prefer to feel. But…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part one

10 coaching questions to help you take back the power This is the first of a special three-part series on tackling stress at work. Stress at work is big news. Figures from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive, reported in the Evening Standard last week, indicate that intolerable office hours and excessive work demands triggered…

Category Archives: Stress

How The Threat Of Lay Off Can Scare You Sh*tless (And What To Do About It)

So, there have been like three rounds of job cuts at your place already over the last couple of years. And just when you were beginning to think it might finally be safe enough to move from your rented apartment to buying your own place, they put you under notice of lay off again. The…

What Keeps You Awake At Night?

The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly. We discovered an interesting thing. Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am. There could be two reasons for this: Either you’re so passionate about what you’re doing that you’re burning the candle on…

How To Maintain Your Work Detox In 5 Minutes A Day

Post six of  The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and by now some of the angst and overwhelm you’d been feeling about work is starting to recede as you whip your work and life into shape. The Detox In Brief Here’s the journey we’ve been on that’s helping you get a grip on things: First, Set…

Time Shifting For Success

If you’ve been reading The Two-Week Work Detox Series, and following along with the exercises, I suspect you’re already starting to suss out that how you’re focussing your time and energy right now is out of step with what you really want. In fact, if you take a look at the ideal week you created…

How Is Time Spending You?

So, if you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series, you’ve built a picture of what you want from your worklife, and what you need to focus on to achieve it. But what are you currently focussing on? You’ll get the answer to this question by looking at how you’re spending your time. Bottom line,…

The Critical Few Activities That Need Your Focus

If you’ve been following The Two-Week Work Detox Series so far, you’ll have a good idea now of what you want to achieve from your working life. You may have noticed, as a few of the commentors did, that the questions around goals in the last post were deliberately open. They did not ask you…

First, Set Yourself Goals

This is the second post in The Two-Week Work Detox, a series of 6 posts coming at you this week and next. Often at work and in life we become so accustomed to living out other people’s expectations of us we spend most of our time on automatic pilot doing task after task without consideration…

Introducing The Two-Week Work Detox Series

Like I said in The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need, a lot of people around me are frazzled right now, and ready for a holiday. The problem is that, unless you do something fundamental to change your status quo, the feel good factor from your expensive break will last about two days. Then you’re once…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part two

10 ways to be okay at work If you worked through the 10 coaching questions in the first post in this series, you’ll have a much better understanding of what stresses you at work and why. You’ll also know what you’d prefer to believe about yourself around work, and how you’d prefer to feel. But…

How to kick workplace stress in the butt: part one

10 coaching questions to help you take back the power This is the first of a special three-part series on tackling stress at work. Stress at work is big news. Figures from the UK’s Health and Safety Executive, reported in the Evening Standard last week, indicate that intolerable office hours and excessive work demands triggered…