Does it ever feel like your organisation pays a mere lipservice to work/life balance? On a trip to Sydney to speak at a conference, I got into conversation with the chap in the next seat – John is a senior account manager for a very large multi-national firm and sells very high value products. We’d already done [...]
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
Right when you want to start winding down you realise there is still so much to achieve before you can take that much anticipated Christmas leave. As we enter the madness of the silly season wouldn’t it be so nice to know that at least things in the office are organised and in control! If [...]
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I recently had a fascinating discussion with my project manager, Sanchia. She came to me from the diplomatic corp. where the requirements of work and raising her young family were so all-encompassing that she ended up becoming unwell while on an overseas posting. Her whole perspective on life has changed after she had to take a year [...]
Never let go of the child within – children have endless curiosity. Start each day as if we’re going to open presents, that it will be a surprise, that we will learn something new and exciting, or have serendipitous wonderful events happen to us. Nine times out of ten, whatever we expect will happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedd2FiZTqM All I’m going to say about this post is – take a moment from your busyness and watch this short clip. No explanation required. I found myself sitting at my screen laughing out loud! Robyn