While having the pleasure of traveling with my family for the past three weeks I had the opportunity to just notice some things. Most of the noticing made me very proud, some curious and some of it absolutely and utterly perplexed. Among this confusion is the notion of initiative. For the first four days husband […]
Can initiative be taught? Read More
How often do you plan to work in the evening only to be seduced by sleep as you put a kid to bed? I had my first 2 kids in my 20s and it seemed easy to negotiate those witching hours, then return to my desk and punch out a uni. assignment, business plan, delegate
Are you doing the night shift? Read More
If you had all the time in the world what would you do? How would life be different? What would you be doing right now? TIME (or lack thereof) is the blame for so many things not getting done – particularly things for oneself. But the problem is, we DON’T have an infinite supply of
What do you need to do? Read More
Last week I did a lot of thinking about time. Time management, efficiency, not enough time, time for me and time for family. Time was a BIG, MASSIVE challenge for me last week, one of those weeks where I felt I could have cloned myself, added an extra 10 hours to each day and yet
Are you running against the clock? Read More
You know how those days leading into a trip away are chaos, you cram in so much that you’re lucky if you remember to eat and there are so many lists and things to do spinning around in your head that if you were to have a brain scan the doctor would probably be surprised
Step away from the computer Read More
I’ve been working a lot of late nights lately. With purpose and results. But I’m getting tired and really feeling the pull of needing time for myself and my family. So this morning I slept in a little. Knowing it’s one of my days to get the kids on the bus and realising that it’s
Morning routine, the school bus and a wild beast Read More
So, how do you let the world know that you have something to tell it? What do you do when you’re reached the final straw, when you’ve had enough and you are just about to explode (or implode)? Are you a bottle it up kinda gal who waits for something like a stubbed toe to
Expressing your stuff Read More
Some days I miss my dad like crazy. Those are the days that I remember he was actually kind of cool. That he was the ‘doing stuff’ guy from visits to the beach to french cricket, bush walks, long long bike rides and spots of tennis. My dad loved to do things. He loved to
Remember when talking about ‘binge drinking’ was a big deal in Australia? It was burned into my brain during the Rudd era, when the Federal anti-binge drinking campaign was launched and our media was utterly saturated with messages about how bad it was to bring children up in a house with drinking, ANY kind of
For goodness sake, just put it in a coffee cup Read More
This morning I’ve set a goal to put up 4 posts on my blog by 11am. This is number 2 (of the 4). When I finish I’m going to celebrate by hanging out some washing – OK, that probably doesn’t sound like celebrating but actually it means some time outside and that I’ll smell civilized
Set a goal and go for it Read More