The Art of Procrastination

What’s your favourite procrastination activity? Cleaning the house, tidying your desk, internet browsing? For me it’s filing – I can quite happily while away time saving documents into their right place, then re-naming and reorganising the structure of my folders! Procrastination is the deliberate and voluntary delay of something we intend to do, despite knowing […]

Poor Performance – Don’t Blame Me!

Sadly I have a plethora of unhealthy (well, perhaps untreatable) indoor plants in my house. I hold myself completely responsible – I’m not good with them.  When a plant gets sick or dies, we don’t blame the plant – we generally take responsibility for not providing the water, sunlight or nutrients it needs to survive […]

I Hate My Job – Get Me Out Of Here!

I can’t tell you how many people I know who’ve come back from the Christmas break with the same realisation – they hate, REALLY HATE, their job!! Perhaps there’s just a plethora of unethical organisations, unfulfilling jobs and hopeless bosses right now. Or perhaps it’s because we often need to step outside of something in […]

Resilience at Work

Even in our relatively safe and prosperous country, bush fires, floods, crime and accidents are all too common. And we all know someone who’s battled cancer, responded to a family tragedy or faced a life changing event. Somehow these people find a way to keep going. We call them resilient, and we question our own […]

Getting Motivated

Many people tell me they’re struggling with motivation right now, whether due to exhaustion, a setback, a loss of direction, or just a cold, dark winter. So it’s timely to take a look at what we can do to keep moving forward, in spite of the things that seem to be holding us back.   […]

Ain’t Misbehavin’

It’s true that some people are more easy-going than others. But even the most tolerant amongst us, at some time, wish that others would behave better. My manager is rude My staff are lazy A colleague doesn’t respect me The kids never clean their room…. Once these behaviours start to bother us, it’s easy to […]

Focus

There was a time when we despised interruption – the phone call in the middle of dinner, the disruptive employee with another urgent question, the kids wanting something just when we’ve sat down to read our favourite book. Now days, if we don’t take a call during dinner, check something on Google whilst out with […]

International Day Of Happiness

Positive psychology and Career Satisfaction: Listen to a short excerpt from Jo’s International Happiness Day webinar interview Archived Event March 20 is International Day of Happiness, a day when the world celebrates the importance of happiness, and focuses activities around how individuals, communities and workplaces can build it. This year, to celebrate International Day of Happiness, […]

All I Want For Christmas…

Dear Santa, forget the socks (I’ve got plenty), the chocolate (I’m trying to give up) and the subscription to Home Craft (unlikely this will ever inspire me to crochet my own wall hangings). What I’d really like is the elimination of poverty, a reduction in youth suicide, a soul mate to journey through life with, […]

Tell Me The Future

We live in uncertain times, in a world that is not only changing exponentially, but one in which we’re increasingly less certain of what tomorrow will bring, let-alone able to confidently predict and plan for possibilities years into the future. Whilst much has been written on the topic of managing change, there is less acknowledgement […]