Is Multitasking really the devil it’s made out to be?

After a recent Masterclass delivery, I received an email with the following question from a participant: What are your thoughts on multitasking? I’m very much one to have many pots on the go at once. I find I can be really productive like this but perhaps there are some downsides that I’m not thinking of. […]

Have you got too many tools?

In the last round of my four week course “Four weeks to get your life under control” one of the participants expressed a desire. Their desire was to have one thing to look at to track all big projects and see their day to day. The bones They had a wall planner, a paper diary, […]

Which key productivity question aren’t you asking yourself?

Life is full of many things to do. And we all have 168 hours a week, four weeks a month, 12 months a year, in which to fit it all in. So when a new task or opportunity comes up, I recommend that my clients ask themselves the following questions: Which of my big-picture goals […]

Ever feel like you’ve done nothing?

I wonder if you can relate to this? The other day I had a break at 1pm and I felt like I had achieved nothing. I was thinking back over the morning and my inner critic was loudly telling me that I was behind on EVERYTHING. Which simply wasn’t true. My tasks for the day […]

Calendar Booking Etiquette

Confession time! I find the process of booking meetings or arranging when someone should call me, stressful. I did as an Executive Assistant and I still do running my own business! For that reason, I like to have processes in place that minimise stress at any opportunity. Here are some of my processes that NOW […]

What to do with all those notebooks that are full of ideas?

Do you take notes? During meetings? During client calls? During presentations? During courses? When making appointments? Maybe you doodle while speaking with friends and family? And what do you do with those notes afterwards? During a session recently, a client of mine laughed that she has many ‘Maybe Never Do Notebooks’. They give her anxiety […]

Could you be having a better quality time?

My client held their day planner up to the camera during our Zoom session and pointed at their day: “Full, full, full.” It’s something I see a lot when working with clients, overloaded days, wishful thinking that ALL of it is going to get done TODAY. But… it’s not possible! The secret to getting it […]