Your Christmas Challenge Starts Today
Can you believe it is only 100 days until Christmas? That’s right, this week we countdown to the start of the silly season and if you’re one of my clients or a long time reader of this blog, you’ll know that I like to set ’100 day’ goals with a significant end date’¦ (and Christmas is a great end date!) What I particularly like about 100 day goals is that they present a significant challenge that is long enough to be a challenge but short enough that you can see the possibility of actually reaching...
read moreGetting Back on Track
One of the things I love about my work as a personal coach is that it constantly keeps me on my toes. The last few weeks, I’ve found myself helping a couple of my clients improve their productivity and reduce their stress levels. And to do this we’ve been working on improving organisation in their daily lives and we have spent some time dealing with procrastination. Last Friday morning, I sat at my desk and looked at my own ‘to do’ list. Being organised is not one of my natural personality traits; it’s something I...
read moreBeating Depression
I got an email from a client last Friday that gave me great joy. When she first signed on as a client with me a year ago, she was a mess. She was on medication for chronic depression, she hated her job, her family was neglected and she completely lost any sense of focus and direction’¦ and that was just the start’¦ over the last year we have seen some big changes in her life, but this email shows me that it has all been worthwhile. In part, she said: ‘I’ve made sure that I’ve left work on time (unfortunately...
read moreThe Forgotten Benefits of Men at Work
A few weeks ago I started clearing a corner of the shed and putting up a pegboard for all my tools, then last weekend I got stuck into building a workbench. As I was working on the project, it occurred to me that a large percentage of men don’t do anything constructive either at work or at home. Office workers for example, attend meetings, sit in front of computers, write documents and shuffle papers. None of these activities provide them with the physical challenges men really need. Many of the people I have met over the years have no...
read moreHow to have 2 weekends in one week
When I was in my early 20s, I lived in Crows Nest; walking distance to North Sydney. I went to a local gym one Wednesday afternoon and whilst doing my workout with my training partner at the time, we discussed the idea of a mid-week bushwalk. By the end of the workout we had two others interested and the four of us decided to each go home, pack and meet back at the gym at 7pm for an evening camping trip in the Blue Mountains. The whole thing was a rush. Not just because of the time limit we were working to, but also because of the excitement...
read more7 Steps to Beating Procrastination
Procrastination is an affliction I’ve suffered from many times over the years. I know, I’m a personal coach. I’m supposed to have licked procrastination long ago. Unfortunately, it is a bit like malaria, you never really get rid of it, but it can be controlled. In the last few weeks I have again found myself under the spell of this dreaded time waster. The thing about procrastination is that it can sneak up on you without you knowing it until it is too late. This is particularly true if you are an active procrastinator. We...
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