Ever had this thought on a Sunday night? “I’m the worst. I had this whole weekend and instead of cleaning out my basement, running errands, and getting a jump start on this week’s presentation, I sat my lazy butt on the couch and binged watched Top Chef. I’m such a failure!” If that’s you, let…
Do you constantly overestimate how much you can get done in a day? Then, what you don’t cross off your to-do list, makes you feel like a failure. You think there’s something wrong with you. Like you’ll never catch up. Which means you stay in scatteredness. And the self-sabotaging cycle repeats the next day. Totally…
Question for you. Where do you keep all your lists of all the stuff you need to get done? Are you relying on sticky notes, backs of envelopes, planners, and journals? Or maybe like a lot of women I work with you have different notebooks for different projects. Or multiple tabs on separate spreadsheets. Whatever…
Do you put in lots of hours but not get the results you want? There’s a difference between working hard and creating value. Sometimes what you think you need is not what gets you results. What if you changed your thinking to… To get balance, space, and time, I don’t need to DO more. I need to…
What if time management or organization doesn’t come to you naturally? Maybe your desk looks like it’s been hit by a bomb or you’re drowning in emails and you think “why didn’t I inherit the organized trait?!” I have good news for you. It can be learned. First thing: *Forget natural-born talent.* Think about all the…
When you think “improvement” what comes to mind? Maybe it’s adding something better. Like when a chicken dish doesn’t come out great, you add more salt or garlic. But what if the way to improve was to take away? To decrease instead of increase? Like maybe the chicken needs less water so the spices are more flavorful….
You plan a 45-minute walk but snooze for 15 minutes, so you skip it. You need hours for a project so you wait for a free day. Who knows when that will happen? You have hours of reconciliations so you’ll do it when you have downtime. Now you’re months behind. Do any of those scenarios…
“What. Happened?!” I was SO frustrated yesterday. I’m running around like a crazy person, responding, reacting — getting everything done. And while driving to pick up my son at 5pm, an utterly annoying revelation comes to me. I have no idea what I got done all day. Like I really can’t think of one thing of…
You know the project is coming up. You know the event is around the corner. You know the meeting is on the calendar. Which is why you’ve gone over the details, made your lists, and planned to be ready. So why then my sweet friend, are you running around like cray-cray,…
It’s easy to lose focus on what’s most important. It happens to me from time to time too. On from the crack of dawn, managing emails, tech snafus, lunches, client issues, emotions, and hundreds of other demands and needs. And in the hecticness of it all, the planning, thinking, or exercise takes a backseat. But…