Dec 9, 2021 | Experience, Happiness
What’s your calendar like? Do you run a tight schedule with back-to-back meetings? Or do you try to keep it easy with something every now and then? We recently travelled to the UK to look at schools and I tried to keep the appointments spread out with space in...
Dec 8, 2021 | Connection, Experience
What does it take to catch up with old friends? A friend visited us from the UK recently. He had been wanting to come for a few years but he had tried to time it together with another friend. This date didn’t work for him, that date didn’t work for the other friend...
Nov 18, 2021 | Experience, Questions
I was talking to a friend who was thinking about launching an offer to her clients before the end of the year. She was going back and forth with whether to do it or not. It was taking up a lot of mental energy. It reminded me of when I first set up my old business...
Nov 16, 2021 | Experience, Happiness
“I regret to inform you…” I was recently in tears as I read the email informing me we couldn’t get a place at the school for my son that we wanted. I had set my sights on this little school and when I got the email, I was filled with shock, disappointment, and dismay....
Nov 5, 2021 | Productivity, Schedule
My Rocketbook notepad was full, my calendar was full, my mind was full. I couldn’t find my phone anywhere. I found myself constantly thinking that I was forgetting something. Ever felt like that? As we are moving countries next year, there’s been a lot of things to...
Nov 4, 2021 | Decluttering, Motivation
“How about a minimum of 1 hour and a maximum of 2 hours a day decluttering and packing?” I’d been listening to the book Effortless (1) and I was reminded of a useful productivity technique. It’s where you set lower and upper limits of work in order to pace yourself....
Oct 14, 2021 | Connection, Experience
I recently gave a Strategic Networking workshop and I noticed that the topic of finding it difficult to speak to people in authority positions often comes up. They said when they are dealing with peers, they are fine but the moment someone more senior is in the room,...
Oct 12, 2021 | Connection, Experience
“We don’t have a life in the evenings” I went to a party recently and I was talking to some friends of my friend. We were discussing our kids’ bedtime setup. They said they didn’t have a life in the evenings as they were putting their kids to sleep. We also used to...
Oct 7, 2021 | Productivity, Schedule
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again and again… if only to remind myself. Schedule it, stick it, put it, whatever you want to call it into your calendar. Otherwise, it may never get done. For some people, especially Obligers (1), those who need accountability,...
Oct 6, 2021 | Connection, Experience
A few weeks back, I was reading about Emma Raducanu who had won the US Open. I loved watching the highlights of the game seeing these 2 teenagers on the court. How inspiring to see such young people already at the top of the game, with such expertise and dedication....