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Effective Time Management: Eating that elephant

Time to blow the cobwebs off our New Year’s resolutions yet again, so I thought I’d offer a bit of help for those struggling with an important task that keeps getting shunted to the bottom of the pile because it seems impossible to achieve.

How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.

That’s all very well but it’s still a big elephant and it can be difficult working out where to take the first bite.

If the logical first step in a big task is still so daunting that you’re endlessly procrastinating, then how about being illogical?

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How do you define success?

A couple of things of late have made me reflect on how we define success and how we try to give advice to others on what they should or need to do to achieve it.

One being a recent article in Femail that was flagged up to me last week.

And I quote:

Louise (Vesey) is one of a new breed of middle-class women who, quite simply, consider themselves too clever to have children.

‘You can be too intelligent to have children,’ she says. ‘To reach your full intellectual potential you need to be childless. If you are a thinking woman it’s more sensible not to become a parent.’

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Christmas team building

The IT Crowd, Christmas baubles, team building suggestions, and getting the baby bathed….

It’s here again.

They’ve started selling baubles in the shops, I’ve seen several Santas popping up on the telly, and Cliff Richard must surely be doing a tour. This means the festive season is inexorably creeping up and now we’re past Halloween and Guy Fawkes, for better or for worse, we’re on the home straight.

For the corporate world that may well mean a party, a jolly day out, or possibly a “team build”.

OK so let’s nail my colours to the mast for a minute; I’m a big fan of Channel 4s “The IT Crowd”. It makes me laugh and if it doesn’t work for you try turning it off and on again as they say. Anyway, the first ever episode was all about the TEAM. In fact, it starts with Denholm (boss) insisting that the workforce work together as a team. It goes like this: Read more