Category Archives: Work status quo

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…

Introducing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers

Welcome to the first in an unfolding and to-be-developed series of posts, creating The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. To kick off, I want to share three things: My intention in writing The Manifesto Some thoughts on how this process will run Article headings that could shape some meaningful draft content and lead to some…

The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer

Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…

How to make sure you never get ahead

If you’ve been surfing the web you’ll have seen there are a number of blogs and bloggers around that want to make you believe you can be successful on your own terms at work. Here’s how to avoid their pernicious influence: Remember what your parents told you about work being a necessary evil. They were…

Category Archives: Work status quo

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…

Introducing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers

Welcome to the first in an unfolding and to-be-developed series of posts, creating The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. To kick off, I want to share three things: My intention in writing The Manifesto Some thoughts on how this process will run Article headings that could shape some meaningful draft content and lead to some…

The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer

Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…

How to make sure you never get ahead

If you’ve been surfing the web you’ll have seen there are a number of blogs and bloggers around that want to make you believe you can be successful on your own terms at work. Here’s how to avoid their pernicious influence: Remember what your parents told you about work being a necessary evil. They were…

Category Archives: Work status quo

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…

Introducing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers

Welcome to the first in an unfolding and to-be-developed series of posts, creating The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. To kick off, I want to share three things: My intention in writing The Manifesto Some thoughts on how this process will run Article headings that could shape some meaningful draft content and lead to some…

The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer

Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…

How to make sure you never get ahead

If you’ve been surfing the web you’ll have seen there are a number of blogs and bloggers around that want to make you believe you can be successful on your own terms at work. Here’s how to avoid their pernicious influence: Remember what your parents told you about work being a necessary evil. They were…