My organising tips published on The Finder to make you more productive.
Dealing with procrastination
Procrastination is a tough habit to break. Even though I teach my clients practical solutions to deal with procrastination, I must say that there is much more to addressing procrastination than time management skills. In fact, I believe that before attempting to find solutions, you should ask yourself these 2 simple questions.
Why adopt a routine schedule
Do you ever feel like there just aren’t enough hours in a day to get things done? That you have little time if any to do the things you truly enjoy? Are you struggling to juggle work and family? Well, these are common issues that many of my clients face. And my first recommendation is almost always to adopt a routine schedule where they assign a time and day in their week for all the activities that are important to them, whether it is driven by a professional target or by a personal aspiration.
How to travel with kids – light and sane!
Christmas is soon approaching. For some of us, it’s an opportunity to visit family back home, for others the opportunity to discover new horizons. Traveling often comes with a mixture of excitement and stress, even more so when we travel with kids. There’s so much stuff we feel compelled to pack, just in case… So how to keep the packing (and your sanity) under control? By asking yourselves the 7 following questions that the last 12 years of traveling with my husband, my 13-year old son and associated paraphernalia, not forgetting ski attire and Christmas gifts, have forced me to consider…
Get your home ready for a stress-free Christmas
Ok, so this year is your turn to host the Christmas party at home? Don’t fret, the 3 tips below will ensure you can have your Christmas cake (or Buche de Noel) and eat it, well I mean entertain your guests while enjoying a stress free Christmas.
Plan your meals in 5 easy steps
Meal planning is a key pillar in our home. Being able to put a home-cooked meal on the table on time without worrying whether we’re missing any ingredients and ensuring that we’re having a balanced diet remove in my perspective a huge amount of stress from our lives. I just wouldn’t be able to operate without it. What about you? Do you plan your meals, or do you believe, like most people who don’t, that it’s hard work? Well, let me demonstrate to you it doesn’t have to be.
How I got more done when I quit being a perfectionist
We all complained that we haven’t got enough time for the things we have to do, and even less so for the things we enjoy doing. But how many of us are happily entertaining our perfectionist side? Well I know it’s pretty ironic for someone considered as an expert in time management to admit this, but I am… It’s taken me a very long time to realise that no matter how big my achievement was, the satisfaction I was deriving from it was very short lived. In the meantime, in my quest for perfection, I had sacrificed sleep, family time and personal time – maybe some would add sanity!
How to avoid the morning rush
Are you always in a rush in the mornings on school days trying to make sure that everyone gets ready on time? Do you make the school bus wait or drop your children to school past the time? Do things, whether it’s your child school work, her PE music instrument or your exercise gear, tend to be forgotten at home? Although this moment of the day is short, it can be very intense and charged with crankiness and low patience level. So with the imminent start of a new school year, let me share 5 tips to help you avoid the morning rush.
