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Get on With It!

Get on With It!

We know it needs doing. Yet, we sit and stare at our screens, unable to get started. As the deadline looms, the pressure builds. Finally, when we realise we might not get it done in time, we suddenly get going. Panic and impatience being to kick in, we start to rush, feelings of stress are not far behind. By now we’re in a time management spiral.

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Stop Multitasking!

Despite popular belief, multitasking more often hinders us than helps us in our busy lives. Beyond mindless activities, simultaneously attempting two or more tasks, that need our attention, results in longer completion times and higher error rates. How often have you typed what you wanted to say, or said what you wanted to type when talking on the phone whilst penning an email?

Always Saying Yes?

As interior designers we want to help. We don’t like to say ‘no’

Sometimes we don’t seem to be able to say ‘No’. Putting other people’s priorities ahead of our own. We put all our efforts into doing things for others, drowning in the work we feel we’ve committed to. When it comes to our own tasks, we’ve run out of time, or worse, we’re frazzled and exhausted. Not being able to say ‘no’ destroys our time management, our productivity, our creativity

Immersed Isolation

COVID cases are rising, and with it more social restrictions are looming. We are facing another 6 months of continued, increasing isolation. Dreaded by all; horrific for those living alone, with 4 or more kids, older (and so often vulnerable) people starved of contact with grandchildren

The approaching winter means I am going to be denied my isolation. Given everything that’s happening, how can it be that I’m going to miss being isolated?

It’ll Only Take a Minute….

It’ll Only Take a Minute….two hours later we’re still at it. It’s experienced by almost all us, all too often. It stems from our natural human tendency to be optimistic. This trait has no doubt given us great evolutionary advantages over the centuries. When it comes to time management, underestimation can be catastrophic: project delays, unhappy clients, stifled creativity, long hours, stress

Dashing from Crisis to Crisis?

As Interior Designers there just isn’t enough time to do it all. The problems keep coming. You’re doing just enough to keep the plates spinning. When in a constant whirlpool of problems we get sucked into treating the symptoms. There’s no time identify and tackle the underlying cause. We’re doing little other than firefighting

How We Erode Time

We all have our imperfections. But which of them are eating up our time, killing our creativity, destroying our productivity? In this post, I outline the negative personality traits which erode our time. In subsequent posts I will discuss what we can do about each of them So, what are these traits? Firefighting: Everything isContinue reading “How We Erode Time”

Beat WFH Isolation

The media is filled with speculation of increased local restrictions and talk of another stay-at-home order. Home working is likely to continue for many, even increase for some. Many of us have benefited from the new world flexible working arrangements. For other others, this way of working comes with a very negative feeling: isolation HowContinue reading “Beat WFH Isolation”

Pause & Reflect

Do you want to get better? Then pause and reflect Back in my corporate days, I heard a presentation by a guest speaker on the value of reflection for growth and development. He could not understand why within companies reflection was so infrequent. Teams rarely get together more than once a week and individuals wereContinue reading “Pause & Reflect”