Goal Control tips
I will shortly be writing more fully on some 'New Year' insights and hindsights but for now I just want to clarify one point. This year, like every other year, will be a 525,600 minute marathon, not a sprint. Yes, it is vital to start strong. Yes, it is vital - nay critical [...]
When it comes to managing our purpose, our goals, multiple projects, competing priorities and the tsunami of to-dos, emails and other communications that tumble out of them, I am relatively ‘Tool Agnostic’. Sure, a lot of our client work focuses on helping their people implement and sustain best practice workload management [...]
Today, 23rd September marks the start of the 100 day countdown to December 31 – and only 69 official work days to achieve our career and business goals for the year. Whether we are on target or not, now is a great time to get serious again on the priorities that [...]
How many people do you know who, in some way, define themselves or allow themselves to be defined by their job, their home, their car, their social status or some other ‘thing’? […]
‘You have taken me well beyond the edge of my comfort zone – and now there’s no way back.’ Part of what I do for a living is what I call Targeted Executive Support. I don’t promote it but friends in the IoD and other network groups, as well as [...]
OK let’s get one thing clear. This is more about strategic planning and strategic priority management than it is about comparing Donald Rumsfeld with Neolithic man. Stick with me – it will be worth the 3 minutes and one click, I promise. […]
Some words of encouragement for you, if your race towards your goals in the first half of the year did not go as well as you had hoped. You might know someone who could use this to re-energise themselves and redouble their efforts for the times ahead, if so feel free [...]
So, part of your priority management strategy over the next month or so is not to miss any critical World Cup matches. Here is a link to a great Microsoft Excel file that will place all the fixtures into your Microsoft Outlook calendar for you in one click.You can use it to [...]
Everywhere I go, recently, people are telling me 2 things and I wonder if these are true for you? Those who are thriving, in particular, tell me that they are having to be even more creative in how they approach their business; its almost like they are in a [...]
Life can be a roller coaster at times. Sometimes we are just about managing to juggle our competing priorities before they become conflicting priorities. Sometimes we are squeezed right up tight against a critical deadline. Other times we feel lost, cast adrift and long for the cut and thrust of [...]
