Category Archives: Personal Coaching
The Myth of Multi-Tasking
The mobile phone has become an intrinsic part of life. If you’ve just got in your car and realised it’s not with you, would you stop to go back? Most would. We dare not be out of contact. The convenience of calling ahead to say we’re going to be late. The availability of support in an emergency. The ability to interrupt our already busy day with messages and calls that other people think are urgent. And now the ability to manage diaries, read and send emails and play games. I wonder how much mobiles are used by motorists? We really do imagine we can sneak a quick look or punch in a quick number before hands free takes Read More...
101 things to do
I’ve had one of those days this week when all the little tasks had built up and I felt overwhelmed by the impossibility of getting through them.
Paralysis might have set in. But … just as we can choose our mood for the day – by which side of the bed we get out of – we can choose our strategy for the tasks we face. I start such a day the evening before by writing a fresh list on a pad, in any order, numbered from one to whatever. Then I allocate a time to each, in units of a quarter of an hour. Time for breaks and lunch is in there. This article is in there (half an hour for that). Then I add it all up and start a Read More...
Comfort Zones, Stretch Zones and Wilderness Skills
Expanding our comfort zone
Many things make us feel good about ourselves: knowing we have done a good job or been helpful to someone or when we are praised for what we’ve done. We feel an inner peace and live within a space that can be called a comfort zone. Each person’s comfort zone will have a unique size and shape. We can extend our comfort zone by experimenting with new behaviours and different ways of relating to other people. I call this going into the stretch zone.
The stretch zone is still pretty familiar to us. We remain in familiar surroundings, with Read More...