Creating environments that support and align with our goals

I'm a big advocate of creating environments that support and align with our goals.  I passionately believe in using the non-conscious parts of our body and brain to help us stretch for those things we want to achieve as well as our plans and intentions. And shaping the environment around us can make a huge difference. I'll share a few things we've been talking about this week, in how to shape a work environment that's conducive to your goals: [...]

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5 Simple Steps to Work Efficiently

A recurrent theme of my coaching this week (in fact, most weeks) is how to work efficiently. Many of my clients are go-getting employees or ambitious entrepreneurs and all are super busy. And often super stressed. And if I'm honest, not operating super efficiently or effectively (mainly because of this stress). Instead, they're firefighting, juggling, and dealing with whatever's shouting the loudest. They're being pulled in many different directions and feeling overwhelmed. And they're starting to become frazzled and [...]

How to Stop Procrastinating and Get Stuff Done

Prefer to listen rather than read?  You can hear an AI-generated voiceover of this blog here: My name is Emma, and I’m a procrastinator. Or at least I’m a pretty much recovered procrastinator, and I’m happy to share with you how I did it. If you’re struggling to get your good intentions to stick, to tick things off that to-do list, and to do the things you know you’ll feel better for doing, [...]

“For God’s sake Emma, stop procrastinating and do some bl**dy work!”

These were the words semi-shouted at me by my exasperated dissertation supervisor back in 2005. The discussion had followed the usual pattern – me highlighting all my ideas and then listing all the excuses why I hadn’t done a thing! Often, these words ring in my head when I’m finding distractions or delaying tactics. They always make me smile; sadly they rarely make me do some work! And it’s just not work – sometimes it’s leisure activities that I [...]