Marcia Francois's Blog, page 82
June 25, 2014
{Time management} Make Parkinson’s Law work for you
Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. What does that mean? - if you allow yourself one hour to clean your office, it’ll take one hour to get it clean. - if you allow just 20 minutes to clean your office, it’ll take just 20 minutes to get […]
June 23, 2014
{Time management} Dealing with distractions
Just a last-minute courtesy reminder that our class Help! I need more time starts today. You can still sign up if you haven’t yet done so. Don’t overthink it and miss out ********************************************* Can we be honest for a moment? I think our main distractions used to be other people. These days I think […]
June 20, 2014
What does your {before} snapshot look like? Take this quiz
I came across this quiz I put together ages ago (it’s part of the current Organise your Time e-course) and, as I answered it for myself, I thought you might like to do the same. Grab a pencil and a piece of paper and let’s go! Part A Mark off all the TRUE statements I […]
June 18, 2014
{Goal-setting} Do you reward yourself enough?
My default setting is usually to go, go, go. As such, I usually keep striving and reaching towards the next thing, without taking a moment or two to just enjoy having accomplished a goal. I’m not great at the resting and rejuvenating types of rewards but I’ve got better. A large part of it is […]
June 16, 2014
{Time management} A story about tolerations
Today I want to tell you a story about my boot (trunk). This boot had been misbehaving, but infrequently. Sometimes it would open properly; other times I had to hold it open for a few seconds (3 – 4) and then it would stay and I could get my bags out. For the non-South Africans, […]
June 13, 2014
{Organising} Don’t wait for perfect
Before I get to today’s post, I’m very pleased to announce that the new e-course Help! I need more time is now open for registration. I haven’t hosted this new format in my e-courses before but I’ve had very good success in using it. There’s just enough teaching, just enough action, and if you do […]
June 11, 2014
{Intentional living} Notice your yellow flags before they turn red
One Sunday morning I was enjoying a mug of tea while reading blogs. I happened upon a friend’s blog where she mentioned her hard drive crashed and she lost everything. Fortunately for her, her husband backs up weekly. Right there and then (I didn’t even finish reading her post!), I got up, fetched my external […]
June 9, 2014
{Time management} Get unstuck through mind-mapping
We all know that we each have a unique learning style. I see this so often with some of my clients because a lot of them are really creative. Which keeps me on my toes because I have to challenge their thinking in a different way sometimes too. I even adapted some of my organising […]
June 6, 2014
{Intentional living} saving money on cleaning materials
I am a marketer’s dream. I could walk down that cleaning aisle and buy everything just to try out new products. I LOVE A CLEAN HOUSE!!!! Here are the things we do buy: the stuff in the photo (except the Mr Muscle and the Handy Andy bottle – I’m working through my “stash” of cleaning […]
June 4, 2014
Life lists: I debunk the 5 most common excuses, and this month’s free printable
I am extremely passionate about life lists. I simply love the idea of living life to the full and enriching your experience by tapping into all the little and not-so-little things you’ve always wanted to do. When I speak about life lists, dreaming big and why I think it’s so important to have one, some […]
