Anything that is not beautiful, useful or makes you smile, has to go! Make your home office the best zone in your home for personal productivity by clearing out the clutter. Clutter comes from the old English word “clotter” which means to clot or coagulate, i.e. it’s anything that causes us to get stuck or [...]
5 Ideas for Email Overwhelm
For those of us who get email overwhelm by an enlarging inbox and frustrated that we never slay the inbox monster, here are my top tips that help me get back on track in the world of email and business productivity. 1. Sort by ‘Received from’ … Unsubscribe from all those nasty spam mailers that [...]
Creating Your Blueprint For Better Time Management
When it comes down to figuring out how to master time management, regardless of your time organisation style and without overcomplicating things, it helps to follow these 5 top tips in creating your unique weekly blueprint. Simply put, this is a master schedule of what you plan to do, when, ensuring you have planned time [...]
Minimising, Eliminating and Organising Distractions: 5 Questions To Ask Yourself
In my quest for personal productivity, I realise it’s the small things that count. Small things make the biggest difference. Small things become the biggest distractions. And distractions are fatal! Here’s a peak into my private world and the 5 questions I ask myself when things go a bit wobbly. 1. What’s niggling me? Figure [...]
Office Organising: The Paper Piles In 7 Steps
While helping a client systemise their workflow and do some office organising, I’m reminded that paper is like the waves of the sea … just as you are up to date, life hurls another paper wave onto the shore! Here are some ideas to prevent you from getting swamped with a flood of papers in [...]
Team Productivity – 4 Golden Nuggets
Team productivity is one of the most challenging areas to navigate because you are working with individuals who all have their own unique ways of getting things done. As a leader, there are sure ways to do it well and to reap the rewards: 1. DEFINE EXPECTATIONS: Clarify, review, and re-communicate the Job Description of [...]
The Home Office: Organising Interruptions
I love my home office. It’s a quiet, sunny, happy, creative space where the coffee is good. But one thing that can drive me to the end of myself and knock a day completely off kilter are the days of incessant interruptions. Do you feel my pain? There is nothing more annoying that that wonderful [...]
9 Nuggets To Make Admin. Effortless In The Home Office:
Has your home office got you in a spin? Life is hectic, work is pressured, and when the weekend hits, I want to switch off. At the end of the day, I need time out. I want easy and effortless. I want a haven, a safe place to be able to let my hair down, relax, [...]
7 Reasons To Get Up and Go When You Don’t Feel Like It
So what happens when life throws you a curve ball, a kick in the pants or the unexpected? You’re supposed to get up and go, but it feels like the day just got up and went, leaving you behind? Here are 7 tips to stay on track and keep moving forward to a place that [...]
Stop Overwhelm From Paralysing Your Productivity
As I sit down at my work desk today for an in-house Get Organised admin day, I feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of my master list. (Yes! The organiser and productivity consultant did just confess!) It’s 8:38am and I have a list that looks like it will take me at least a week to get [...]
