This isn’t the post I thought I’d publish today. That was something about the Zen of the 9-5, and keeping your head when all around are losing theirs. Driving back from my morning coffee ritual, I was hatching the story line, stopping from time to time to take happy eyefuls of verges lined with golden…
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How To Be Inventive When Snow Stops Play
Totally weird I was talking about being in the moment on Wednesday. Turns out that’s what I’m going to be doing a lot of over the next few days. See, I had been planning on travelling north to Edinburgh for a short holiday. But snow has stopped that particular kind of play. Very sad, as…
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…
Looking At Life Through The Eyes Of A Child
My most favourite nephew in the world is staying with me this week from Glasgow. He also happens to be my only nephew in the world, but that makes him more, not less special. Suffice to say, we’ve been having a lot of fun. As I wrote elsewhere, James has the smartest way of looking…
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Christine Livingston is a coach and writer, who helps professional people wanting to work and live on their own terms. With a successful career both inside and beyond the corporation to draw from, Christine gives the support, challenge, tools and inspiration that enable people to thrive.
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