Are you feeling overwhelmed at the number of things you’d like to improve and worried you won’t or can’t improve. Instead of goals use the wheel of life to find your priority annual theme.
The wheel of life can help you have a great year
Achieve the success you want
How to keep the holiday feeling when you return to work
Holidays are about relaxation, calm and freedom. Is it possible to keep that feeling when you return to work? These four steps will help you find holiday calm in your work day.
Picking a theme instead of New Year resolutions
I’m not a fan of having a new year resolution as I’ve found they rarely have a successful outcome. So this year I’m doing things differently and I’m working towards a long term goal. A goal that will help me achieve the life I want in the future.
Tell your time by Amy Lynn Andrews – book review
The book Tell your time* is about developing a schedule so you can complete the things you want to do. It’s a short book (which seems appropriate for a book about making the most of your time) with a lot of great information packed into the pages. Are your daily activities moving you toward where you want to be, or are you swept up in the tumult of your to-dos? We all know there is a Continue Reading …
Rethinking my task list – why do I want to do more?
There is so much I want to achieve that for years I’ve been working on becoming more productive. I’ve focused on do more, do more, do more. However, after several tired weeks when I haven’t looked at my task list, I’ve had a revelation. Why do I want to do more? What will I do when I’ve finished everything on my list? Nothing, because I’ve added everything I want to do on to my list, so Continue Reading …
The power of finding your keystone habit
March was a disappointment for me as I wrote just one blog post, so I’ve been thinking why, what happened? And I’ve realised it comes down to one thing – habit interruption, specifically my keystone habit. What are keystone habits? The keystone is the centre stone in a bridge arch, and holds all the other arch stones in place, even with no mortar. The same thing can happen with habits, with one habit holding the others Continue Reading …
How’s the darktea brewing? #3
Not exactly a great start to these monthly reviews by missing two months. I’m still working on getting used to working full time and with a longer commute and unfortunately it is my blogger time that has suffered the most. However, I hope I’m on the cusp of getting back to a more balanced routine. Improving my sleep My only resolution this year is to improve my sleep and last month I got to bed earlier than January Continue Reading …
Finding and deleting duplicate files
I’ve spent most of the last two weeks finding and deleting duplicate files. A rather tedious task and one that worries me as I think I may delete a non duplicate file by mistake. I have to admit this isn’t the first time I’ve worked on removing my duplicate files, but it has recently become a priority because: my laptop hardrive was almost full, I was down to 5Gb free out of 688Gb I was Continue Reading …
How is the darktea brewing? #2
Seeing as we’re almost at the end of March it seems a bit late to be reviewing my progress in February. However, I don’t want to give up on these progress posts after just one month. I’ve been quiet this month here and on social media because I started a new job at the end of February which is very exciting after my role was made redundant in October last year, but I’m still getting used Continue Reading …
How is the darktea brewing? #1
This is my new monthly progress post, but as I did progress posts for two years up to 2009 I wanted to call this something different and came up with something a little cheesy. Unlike my previous posts these are going to focus on two areas I’m looking to improve this year, my sleep and reading self improvement books. Improving my sleep My one resolution this year is to improve my sleep as I believe it will Continue Reading …
