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So what cluttered me this week? Yep, it was my inner chatter. Being self-employed means that I can be the master of my diary – at least most of the time. And this week I wanted to spend some time with books rather than the computer. My familiar inner critical voice kicked in straight away: …
Something odd has been happening to me lately. As more businesses have been opening up again and our lives have started becoming busier, I have had a few days recently which could be described as “pre-covid normal” in terms of activity. Except that I have begun to notice a pattern: those days have left me …
Aren’t we good at being hard on ourselves? Depending on our nature, this can be a useful tool, a powerful drive to help us follow our goals and push ourselves to greater achievements. But it can also be counter-productive, by being an unhelpful constant negative voice in our head, ready to undermine us and minimize …
Every day, going about our business, interacting with colleagues or friends, listening and feeding our inner dialog, we navigate our view of the world. And this view is based on a multitude of assumptions that we constantly make. What if we stopped, paused, and wondered if perhaps things were not as we thought they were? …
This is a topic that has come up with my clients a number of times lately! We often hide our whole selves or parts of us under layers and disguises in order to protect ourselves. The threats might be perceived or real, we feel that we can’t show who we really are. But if people …
I have been thinking a lot lately about how I can make more of a difference in the world. As I discussed in my conversation with Shalini, I am not necessarily able or inclined to get heavily involved in activism on all of the fronts that I might care about. However, I still want to …
Tip 12: de-clutter your communications. How often do people not quite understand what you are trying to say? Are you burying your message under layers of flowery language or unnecessary detail? Do you notice a difference between your spoken and your written communications? Keeping it simple, plain and clear will ensure that recipients understand you …
Tip 11: de-clutter your diary. With time, we tend to get into routines and auto-pilot mode. We stop paying attention to what we are doing and simply carry on with the usual. What’s in your diary that you could stop doing? What’s unnecessary, unhelpful or no longer a priority? And with that new space in …
Tip 10: de-clutter your desktop. Visual clutter in our line of sight interferes with our cognitive function and contributes to distracting us. Look at the desktop of your PC or the home screen on your various devices with fresh eyes, and remove all the icons and shortcuts that don’t need to be there!
Tip 9: de-clutter your kitchen. What we eat changes everything about how much energy we have, how focused and effective we are, and more generally how we feel about ourselves and the world. So noticing what our kitchen counter looks like and what our kitchen cabinets contain will help us pay more attention to our …