Maybe you were one of those lucky kids whose parents were pretty sorted, and supported your self-actualization growing up? I wasn’t, and neither were most of the people I work with. It’s not that our folks were bad (okay, actually some were awful). Sometimes they just taught us too well how to fit into the…
Category Archives: Work and life
Why You Need To Trust Yourself When The Wheels Come Off Your Career Wagon
What do you do when the wheels come off your career wagon? That’s a question that brings a lot of people to me. People who’ve expected their work – and lives – to go in a certain direction. To have just the same enthusiasm today as they always had yesterday. But then something happens. Someone…
Why Freelancers Hold The Key To Happiness At Work
Did you know that there are now 1.4m freelance workers in the UK, and 42.6m in the US? That’s around 8% of our full-time working populations taking responsibility for their own livelihoods. Interesting? Even more interesting, freelancer workers are among the happiest. Reasons for being happy? They have more control over what work they will…
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…
Category Archives: Work and life
5 Golden Career Rules Your Parents Taught You (And Why You Should Ditch Them)
Maybe you were one of those lucky kids whose parents were pretty sorted, and supported your self-actualization growing up? I wasn’t, and neither were most of the people I work with. It’s not that our folks were bad (okay, actually some were awful). Sometimes they just taught us too well how to fit into the…
Why You Need To Trust Yourself When The Wheels Come Off Your Career Wagon
What do you do when the wheels come off your career wagon? That’s a question that brings a lot of people to me. People who’ve expected their work – and lives – to go in a certain direction. To have just the same enthusiasm today as they always had yesterday. But then something happens. Someone…
Why Freelancers Hold The Key To Happiness At Work
Did you know that there are now 1.4m freelance workers in the UK, and 42.6m in the US? That’s around 8% of our full-time working populations taking responsibility for their own livelihoods. Interesting? Even more interesting, freelancer workers are among the happiest. Reasons for being happy? They have more control over what work they will…
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…
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Category Archives: Work and life
5 Golden Career Rules Your Parents Taught You (And Why You Should Ditch Them)
Maybe you were one of those lucky kids whose parents were pretty sorted, and supported your self-actualization growing up? I wasn’t, and neither were most of the people I work with. It’s not that our folks were bad (okay, actually some were awful). Sometimes they just taught us too well how to fit into the…
Why You Need To Trust Yourself When The Wheels Come Off Your Career Wagon
What do you do when the wheels come off your career wagon? That’s a question that brings a lot of people to me. People who’ve expected their work – and lives – to go in a certain direction. To have just the same enthusiasm today as they always had yesterday. But then something happens. Someone…
Why Freelancers Hold The Key To Happiness At Work
Did you know that there are now 1.4m freelance workers in the UK, and 42.6m in the US? That’s around 8% of our full-time working populations taking responsibility for their own livelihoods. Interesting? Even more interesting, freelancer workers are among the happiest. Reasons for being happy? They have more control over what work they will…
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…