Clearing Out Clutter Can Change Lives
5 April 2016In a recent article about protecting and improving our energy by clearing out clutter http://blog.gettingagrip.com/how-to-have-more-time-guard-your-energy I shared that I was eliminating one thing per day from my bedroom. (I’ve extended that to anywhere in my home or office.) You might like some of the great contributions that flowed in from readers. From Diane: ‘I […]
How To Have More Time – Guard Your Energy
22 March 2016I had a great contribution to one of my recent blog articles “How to Simplify Your Busy Life” from Diane. “One year I removed 1 item per day from my house and wrote it on the calendar. It was really amazing to do the actual writing down as it made you think ‘why had I kept […]
A Hard Lesson On Simplifying – ‘Just In Case’ Is Not Always A Good Plan
15 March 2016At the beginning of this month I cracked a big goal, to hike the Hump Ridge Track in Fiordland. In the process a hard but very valuable lesson about simplifying was learnt. When you go on holiday, are you likely to add a couple of extra items ‘just in case’ you need them? With all the […]
How To Simplify Your Busy Life
8 March 2016Is it just my noticing, or are you also seeing an increasing commentary and focus on decluttering and simplifying? It’s not just things: it could be activities or even people. Can You Reduce Driving Time? I had a big wake-up call a few weeks ago while chatting to my friend Elizabeth Jeffries over coffee. She […]
‘I Never Seem To Get To The Big Jobs!’
1 March 2016Like many beginning business owners, Derek was feeling overwhelmed. As you’ll know if you’ve ever started a business, there are so many details to handle. His question to me: ‘I know there are some key tasks that, if I get started on them, will make a long-term difference. But there are so many immediate tasks […]
Who Says The Office Has To Be In A Building?
23 February 2016Most of us reconcile ourselves to the fact that, once our summer holidays are over, it’s time to get out of our casual clothes, off the beach or mountain and head back to the office. If or when we work away from the office, mobile working for most of us equals cranking up our […]
Let Your Staff Nap On The Job
17 February 2016The problem is, not only parents of young children, but now also the rest of society is sleep-deprived. Almost all of us are awake for longer hours than a century ago, due to the opportunities afforded by electricity. Add to that the impact of an increasingly global economy, the advent of the internet and modern […]
Delegation Is Not A One-Stage Process
11 February 2016Ben is a mid-level manager with a team of four, all relatively new in their positions. ‘They need less help than last year, but I still get quite a lot of interruptions asking for things that I think they could have done a bit more work on. It seems they rely on me quite a […]
Is There an Efficient and Easy Way to Set Goals?
I’ve just come back from speaking at the HR Advisors conference in Wellington. A number of other presenters, although not all talking overtly about goals, reinforced the importance of them. From David Keane, speaking on ‘The Art Of Deliberate Success‘: ‘Really successful people don’t appear to be very busy. They don’t waste time on peripheral […]
The Annual HR Advisors Conference
22 January 2016Another event coming up quick! I’ll be speaking at The Annual HR Advisors Conference on Tuesday January 26th from 10:45-11:00 am. Are you an HR Advisor? If so, don’t miss this event! Here’s a little bit more about it: “While HR doesn’t own culture (and many HR teams haven’t called themselves People and Culture because of […]