Category Archives: Work and life

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Doing Your Real Work

Today I'm delighted to welcome the super-talented Tara Sophia Mohr. Her beautiful piece challenges us to consider what our real work is - and how we can do it, ...

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The Vocation Myth

Lots of people get sucked into the current new age wisdom that we all have one unique thing we're called to do in life. They spend years, not to mention thousands of pounds, on the ...

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Is Yours A Job, Career, or Calling?

Monday morning. How did it feel to get out of bed and anticipate another week? Much of your answer will depend on how you choose to see the work you do. Job If you see your work as a job, you consider ...

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Work life change: event or journey?

This is the sixth in The New Work Pioneer Manifesto series. Today we're talking about the landmark stages navigated on the way to work life freedom. Many coaches sell seminars and bootcamps where they promise transformational life change ...

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