Organising home life: Sharing the domestic and emotional load at home

In recent months, I have had the opportunity to work with a growing number of couples to increase their efficiency at home, which I absolutely love to do! The sessions have been about clarifying how to reprioritise their time, reconnecting with values and needs, organising personal affairs and life admin, and upping self-care and fun […]

The basics of project planning

I love hearing about my clients’ big ideas and the projects that they’ve decided to spend time on. The hugeness of a project is often what trips them up though. It’s what kills the motivation and spirit that first brought the project to life. This is often where I will say ‘chunk it down’ to […]

Three FAQ about working with a Time Trainer

The top 3 questions that I’m asked about working with me: 1. What are your methods? My method is generally to take a client through three stages. The first stage is to put out the fires. My clients have called me because something has become too much. So this is what we deal with straight […]

Strategies to help boost your working memory

Our brains need support. They are fantastic at thinking up new ideas but not so great at holding on to all of them in our working memory (the more active version of short-term memory). Working memory relates to the information we can pay attention to and manipulate at one time. In fact, researchers put the […]

Close all your tabs to claim back your focus

I have to say, I love that feeling of exiting many tabs after I’ve completed a task. It could be that I was writing something and I’ve closed off all my research pages. Or I had to update my social pages so have clicked out of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google My Business and the master document. […]

Rethinking the speed at which we do things

I unexpectedly bumped into a new acquaintance of mine recently who apologised for having not responded to a text I’d sent. They said that they felt bad for having left the reply so long and then they felt too bad to reply that and then so much time had lapsed they felt silly. We laughed […]

Why is goal setting so important? Where do values come into time management?

Goal setting is the backbone of everything that you’re working towards. If we don’t know where we’re going, if we don’t know our destination, then we’re just wasting time every day on things that come our way. What I see often is that people focus on what has shown up rather than what they actually […]