I was standing behind a couple at a busy hotel reception recently. The husband asked his wife: ‘What time shall I book the taxi for?’ The woman, struggling with various bags and cradling a mobile phone in her shoulder, whilst conversing with the receptionist, spectacularly lost her temper at this question. She told him [...]

I was sharing coffee and cake the other morning with a group of women in a delightful garden the other morning. A time well spent I think, but you might not.
Anyway we got onto the vexed subject of time and the lack of it. Despite some laughter about time management one could sense the [...]

Have you succeeded in big life-change and kept to it? As you think about it now was it one particular mental switch that made the difference? The other night my partner revealed how he finally quit smoking after many painful failed attempts. At the heart of his success was sticking to one simple [...]

What is motivation? It’s hard to explain but everyone uses it or wants it. It could be useful to think of it as shorthand for opening the gap from where you are to where you want to be. In other words how to achieve your goals.
When you let that sink in your mind [...]

Isn’t interesting that when you really need to get things done that’s when your mind is buzzing with stressed thoughts that stop you being productive?
We can all easily fall into this trap of being busy and stressed and not be productive. So we feel bad and regret the time we waste.
Get Resourceful
Here’s a quick exercise [...]