I was chatting with Joshua Black via his guest post at Men With Pens about my propensity for eavesdropping in coffee shops. But the following story, if you’ll excuse the pun, takes the biscuit. One day during the summer when my brother and nephew were staying with me, Bobby wanted a long lie. Not that…
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4 Reframes To Get Your Career Groove Back
When you fall victim to some form of corporate insanity, it doesn’t just set your career back – it can cripple your professional confidence and make you doubt your ability to realise your long term ambitions. On top of that, the bogey man of today’s employment market can be the all pervading fear factor, threatening…
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…
What If There IS No Work?
So, here’s the thing: some of my clients are in the unusual-for-them position of having no work right now. They’ve either been made redundant from their firms, are watching their businesses hit the skids, or are just generally less well employed than they’d really rather wish to be. Their hearts tell them they’d love to…
The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need?
Did you see the recent research that reckoned it takes only two days back at work for all of the benefits of being on holiday to disappear? How sad is that? Still, it echoes a lot of what I hear and see around me: people completely frazzled ahead of the school holidays, bouyed up by…