Make meetings meaningful...

I freelance, or as someone recently put it: ‘work as an ingredient brand’ (I understand food analogies) and I am increasingly aware of the importance of time. Time is money? Yep, because if I’m late – you’re late. If I’m not efficient then I’ll charge you more for doing the job. Doesn’t seem fair does it? I wasn’t aware of this when I was employed full time. I thought I was at work to do the job my boss told me to do and they took responsibility for the time management. All of it. Project delayed? Train late? Teabag in...

Getting things done...

The title of today’s blog is inspired by a book of the same name by David Allen. The book gives practical tips on how to organise your working life so that you can get your ‘stuff’ into a workflow and get it completed. Sounds good thinks serial to-do-list-maker me. So why does your ‘stuff’ get so complicated? Damn – you forgot to call someone. You didn’t read that email properly and you can’t remember if Sunday comes before or after 4 o’clock. I’d like to apply this confusion that we face in our day-to-day work...