Tag: focus
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A new year
Are you excited for the opportunities and possibilities of 2022? Now is a good time to reflect on the year that has just been and plan for the year ahead. What are the top 5 things you learnt in 2021? What are you most excited about in 2022? What habits or routines would you like…
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Change doesn’t stop
What a rollercoaster the last year or so has been! The world stood still in a sense. Locked down. But on the other hand, everything keeps changing.
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What are you tracking?
There is a famous saying by management guru Peter Drucker, “What gets measured gets managed”. So by drawing our attention and focus to key metrics, we can increase the chances of success in those areas.
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Wait ten minutes
“While we can’t control the feelings and thoughts that pop into our heads, we can control what we do with them.” – Nir Eyal
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More fears and self-doubt
So, you have decided to make the change, great! But then comes a surge of new fears and self-doubt.
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Making a difference
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James. Often we don’t think that what we do will make a difference. So maybe we don’t give it our best shot, or worse, perhaps we don’t try at all. Why not believe it does make a difference?
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Brave conversations
“Be brave enough to start a conversation that matters.” Margaret Wheatley We seemed to be so focused on what is quick and expedient. We rush from one encounter to another. We opt for the sound bite over an in-depth article. Why is this the case? Maybe the nature of technology, social media and the news…
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What we focus on makes a difference
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.” Sharon Salzberg We often find our minds swept away into negative thought patterns. It doesn’t take long before this spirals out of control, and we are living out every doomsday scenario which has not yet happened. I have been practising trying…
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Suffering for the weekend
“It’s actually a problem to really look forward to holidays and to weekends. It indicates two things: 1) It takes the joy out of the everyday. Because now you’re living in the future and suffering the rest of the time. 2) You have accepted a way of life in which most of your time is…