Are you all too familiar with the feeling of having to finish that next piece of work today? Do you feel obliged to start work early, stay late and/or sacrifice your weekends? Have you convinced yourself that a catastrophe will occur if you don’t get through all your work asap? If this sounds like you then it [...]
Does your life often feel so frantic that you feel like you never have time for anything? Are you often running from one thing to another just hoping you haven’t forgotten something in between? I think we can all relate to having had this feeling at some point. That’s why a quote I read yesterday [...]
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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 [...]
I teach time management because I used to be bad at it! Over the years the path of my life has taken some very interesting turns. First I was a librarian, then a farmer’s wife and mother of six. Next I was a solo mother on government benefits. A few long years later I climbed [...]
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…’Twas the first week of February, and through all the country’s houses a huge sigh of relief could be heard from the mums and their spouses!….. Ahhh, it is the first week of February and down here in the Southern Hemisphere the kids are finally on their way back to school after 6-8 weeks of summer [...]
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A few years ago I was in Alice Springs with an unexpected opportunity to practise what I teach! I’d just completed a tour for the Northern Territory Government with their October Business Month: it took me not only to Darwin, but also to places that I’d yearned to visit for years – Katherine, Tennant Creek, [...]
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In July 2004 I had the privilege of speaking to 100 Adventist School Principals from all around the Pacific. As I listened to Barry, one of the first speakers, saying ‘Neglect yourself emotionally and you become toxic’, I had to agree. It led neatly to one of my topics – what I call Sanity Gaps – [...]
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Would a time management specialist encourage you to procrastinate? You bet! There’s a time and a place for everything. I’d just returned to my office after having been on the road in two countries for five weeks. You can imagine the pile of paper ready to grab me by the throat! Everything screamed ‘Do me [...]
As I was ironing a couple of garments prior to jumping on a plane to Sydney this morning the old phrase ‘A change is as good as a holiday’ flashed into my mind. It wasn’t because of the 3 hour plane ride – in my line of work that’s fairly common. It was what Mike [...]