How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives – Annie Dillard It’s not time we lack, its a reverence for the preciousness of time and a day to day acknowledgement of its declining balance. We live like we are going to live forever such is...
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How to guarantee overwhelm – – the 3 versions: Overwhelmed version 1 = you are making more promises than requests. (Change the equation) Overwhelmed version 2 = you are making enough requests – but they are not big or bold enough. (Make them bigger) Overwhelmed version 3 = You are...
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Days turn to months, months turn to years, years turn into careers. Spend your days on the things that count by counting the days that count. Cue Donald Rumsfeld. The visual spreadsheet is to help plot how you could be spending the 20 business days available each month – with...
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The top 5 classic cons, misinformation, red herrings, and self-sabotaging beliefs about time: You will one day ‘find time’ for those things that you know that you need to be doing now.You will never find time. It’s not hidden under the bed, or in the biscuit tin or manifested as...
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Are you terribly busy? Then what a relief. A group of authors (to assist busy, busy parents) have condensed classic children’s stories into 60 second summaries. I did a double take on that one. Whilst sometimes (to my inner guilt) I feel too knackered to spend 20 minutes on the...
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..the bonkers version that has the busy manager going crazy trying to accomplish the linear notion of balance. It’s out in the the social paradigm and in every Sunday newspaper: Monday to Friday – No weekend working. 9-5 Getting all your ‘work work’ done and getting all your ‘home work’...
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The moment you feel the need to motivate someone, you’ve made a hiring mistake or you’ve put the right person is in the wrong role. The’ right’ people don’t need to be motivated. Challenged, lead, taught, acknowledged – yes. But not motivated. The right people in the right job...
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Hello again, It’s Paul Fox back with the Constructive Coaching blog. Where have I been and why am I back… is anyone interested!? Way back around 2009 I took a break from producing my own ezine and co wrote on a monthly ezine ‘The Leader’. The Leader became a published...
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It’s almost impossible to be successful without firm and clear boundaries. We naturally respect people who have strong boundaries. A boundary simply defines what people can and can’t do to you or, do around you. Some folks just put in boundaries without even thinking about it and we like that...
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Every solution creates it’s own problems. The car was the solution to the horse & cart. (Creating pollution, gridlock) Email was the solution to ‘too slow’ mail. (Creating overwhelm, escalations, focus on the small stuff) Credit cards were the solution to personal cash flow issues. (Creating stress, over extended debt,...
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