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The Island That Never Is

25th January 2012

Have you booked your summer holiday for this year? We’ve got a couple of weeks in sunny Portugal to look forward to. The villa is booked, as are the flights and now there’s just the hire car to get sorted. Yippee! Sepia Tinged Freedom Of Youth In my single days, (those long-gone halcyon moments of [...]

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Choices In The Moment

26th November 2011

I was talking with a friend from the school run this morning, Emma, about the simple accumulative choices that can make a real long term difference to who and what we want to be. She was heading off to the gym but admitted that she’d not had a decent breakfast. I’d done exactly the same [...]

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At What Cost?

17th October 2011

Opportunity Cost It’s OK that you can’t do everything on your list. Recognise and embrace the concept of opportunity cost. If you’ve got ten pounds you can buy a CD or a book. But you can’t buy both. If you buy the CD then your opportunity cost is the book. Value Of Time Your use [...]

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Some Day

13th October 2011

To really make progress and get things done you have to focus and spend more time and energy on less. And although doing less will result in achieving more, I recognise that it’s hard to let go of some of the things you want to do. Some ideas are just too good to say goodbye [...]

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Avoid The Library

10th October 2011

Stuff To Do We all have a huge amount of ‘stuff’ to do. And sometimes the sheer scale of work that’s on the go can overwhelm us. When I go through clients’ work schedules to help them make efficiency changes I sometimes see small, silly things included like returning library books to avoid a late [...]

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