Category: Organisation
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Stop making excuses…
This morning I stopped myself mid sentence, because I was about to break one of my golden rules. You see… when I first started working part-time, I felt really guilty when I was leaving the office before everyone else or when I couldn’t join a meeting because it was outside my agreed hours. I had…
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I have 1hr of freedom…
Oh my goodness, on Sunday I got back from my a walk and found my husband and children gone. Yep, he has taken them OUT and they are not due back for an hour. This means I have the house TO MYSELF. This is a rare occasion and I am both excited and anxious. Yep…anxious.…
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My personal cheerleader…
I’ve talked before about some of the bad managers I have had during my career… like Teflon, or the manager who threatened to throw her laptop at me (and I haven’t even written about “the aggressor” yet). But mostly, I have had the pleasure of working under some pretty amazing, influential and inspiring managers. I…
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A little bit of sunshine in my office
It continues to amaze me how much work environment really does impact your mood, motivation and essentially your engagement at work. This week I was extremely fortunate to get a beautiful massive bunch of flowers given to me. They were sitting out on the kitchen table when I suddenly realised I should totally move…
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Email…a necessary evil of the modern workplace…or is it?
Back to work today and quite frankly, it’s not a great first impression. My inbox is overwhelmed with emails, but the scary part is how many of them are irrelevant or wasteful. Started off feeling frustrated this morning but as I plough through all the emails getting more annoyed at each one, I cheer myself…
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Balancing, juggling, prioritising….drowning…
Call it what you will, but this issue is likely to come up quite a lot in my blog because it’s something I think we all have to deal with, and today…it hit me smack in the face. Each day, we are all faced with the decision of where to spend our time and energy. …
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I’m so impatient…
So yesterday it happened, that down turn of spirits I have been expecting ever since I hit “post” on my first update. I knew at some point I would come crashing down from my high. What was exciting me is now stressing me, what was inspiring me now seems daunting and frustrating…and today, I’m not…
claire george 