Are You Encouraging Laziness?
23 August 2016Laurie has mid-level responsibilities in an IT firm. It’s fast-paced, the firm is growing fast, new faces keep showing up every week, and an underlying sense of organised chaos permeates the whole firm of about 200 people. He’s one of the more experienced team members. So you won’t be surprised to hear that newer staff […]
How Is Screen Time Impacting The Children?
19 July 2016It was people working in the television industry who told me, years ago, that there is a direct inverse relationship between the amount of TV a person watches (and these days we would include any devices providing entertainment) and the income they’re capable of earning. In other words, those who spend a lot of time […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are You Too Available?
11 November 2015‘Simon, what’s your biggest challenge?’ I asked. He was having a follow-up coaching session after a half-day’s training. ‘I think I’d call it delegation,’ he replied. ‘I seem to be interrupted all day long with team members wanting help. I don’t want to send them away – I know we have to be available for […]
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 […]
A really awesome built-in smartphone time management tip – and hardly anyone uses it
14 October 2015A few months ago I was about to start typing a text when my grandson Sam, standing nearby, asked a question. The keypad was already on the screen and without realising it I bumped the small microphone button down on the lower left beside the space bar. I replied to Sam, went back to my […]
My Answer to ‘Please Explain the 80/20 Rule’
3 June 2014From Damien a couple of weeks ago, in response to one of my recent blog posts: “I’m just wondering what’s meant by the 80/20 rule. It sounds quite interesting and good to keep in mind.” I should know better than to assume the term is universally known – we all have a first time for […]
How To Separate Work And Home When Working From Home
8 April 2014These days more and more folks, even corporate people, work at home some or part of the time. Two key issues need to be handled if we work without the immediate physical support of an office and the external motivation of ‘going’ to work. Mastery of them will dramatically increase your home-based productivity. They are: […]