7 Steps to Bring Your Work-Life Balance into Sync
How to Achieve Work-Life Balance in a Digital World According to Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. It is too easy to forget that there is a difference. Just because we […]
The Benefits of Deep Work and How to Establish It
After stumbling across an interesting article entitled “Why Deep Work Matters in a Distracted World” I found myself cataloguing just how much time is lost to shallow work (read more here). By shallow work, I mean doing work (in my case writing), while: People are present I’m listening to music I have multiple projects open […]
Too Late To Make New Year Resolutions?
So how are those New Year Resolutions going? I’m not really a huge fan. You know how it goes: you start off so well, dead keen, then three days in and you’ve missed a few… before you know it, you’re writing the whole year off as a failure. But perhaps there are some resolutions you […]
What’s Your Excuse? – A Writer’s Daily Fight Against Procrastination
Writers & Procrastination: The Art of “Just One More Thing…” We writers turn procrastination into an art form: ‘I just need to do this first…’ Procrastination takes many guises. Here are a few that may sound familiar: “I Can’t Write in All This Clutter” – The Chaos Excuse Clutter can be physical and/or psychological. It […]