Is There an Efficient and Easy Way to Set Goals?
11 February 2016I’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 […]
A Guaranteed Way to Get More Time In Your Day
26 November 2015I’m constantly delighted with the comments seminar attendees and coaching clients make after they start applying more focus in their daily time management choices. Just today, David, one of my corporate executives said: “With constant focus on my highest value and giving myself one over-arching priority, sometimes daily but with bigger projects, weekly, I feel […]
Some Strategies to Manage Overwhelm
21 October 2015Martin was a delegate at a conference. We’d been talking about daily planning and ‘to do’ lists. This is what he shared: “Robyn, you gave us some great advice about writing a list of all the things to do for the day, identifying just the top five, and working on them. The action […]
On Pushing the Boundaries – A French Goal Setting Story
7 October 2015Ever noticed how much faster and more effective our life lessons and personal development are when we push, or are pushed by external factors, outside our comfort zone. One of my life goals for some years has been to learn French, and right now I’ve allowed it to kick (not just push) me right outside […]
How to Save Time – Do It Right the First Time
22 September 2015For the first six months of this year I was housemother/flatmate/grandmother for my oldest grandson Sam, aged eighteen and in his final year of high school. His parents were on an overseas posting. Many times over that period I found myself saying, ‘Don’t put things off. Do it right the first time and you’ll save […]
How To Get Engagement From Your Staff
16 September 2015Are you interested in getting full and involved participation from your people? Instead of telling someone to do a task, ask them how they think it should be done. I first read the following story in Les Giblin’s excellent book ‘How to have confidence and power in dealing with people’. He gives credit to […]
Video: Little Child Feeds a Homeless Man
22 May 2015Hi, This morning I just want to share this very short clip and story with you – it’s truly inspirational. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11451571 Our teachers are everywhere. Have a wonderful day. Best, Robyn
A 1% improvement is all you need for amazing success
3 December 2014How many times have you made a firm resolution to lose weight or join a gym but a few weeks later find you’ve dropped the ball? You were sure you wanted to do it when you set the intention – but it got hard, took too much time, …. (The excuses are legion – pick […]
Being Too Busy is a Mindset, NOT a Badge of Honour
28 October 2014A client on one of my Sydney courses shared with the group how he’d changed the culture of his company from one of ‘ we’ve got SO much to do that we have to work long hours’ to ‘we manage our load effectively and profitably within reasonable hours.’ He was the owner of a very […]
The General’s Bedroom Lessons
7 September 2014“My dad was a 2 Star General. I learnt some great life-long attitudes and habits from him” said Penny Wing, participant in one of the CEO groups I worked with in London in July. “Every morning I would wake up to him knocking on my door saying: ‘Time to get up. Another day in which […]