If I offered to pay you $1,000,000 to sit in a meeting room for an hour each day for a week, could you find the time? I thought so. Time management isn’t only about time, it’s about purpose. Here’s 3 steps to help you clear some clutter from your schedule and make some space for what matters.

If you’ve ever turned down the music to concentrate on a tricky driving manouver, you know we’re not wired to do two things at once. Interruptions at work make deep focus impossible, yet multitasking is a myth and deep focus is essential to productivity. Here’s an easy tip to help you concentrate at work… and enjoy it.

There can be nuggets of gold in negative feedback but it can be hard to find them when we feel attacked. This week I’m sharing a handy “Is it this? Or this?” table to help you work through whether negative feedback is constructive or destructive.

So you’re outside your comfort zone – what now? Understanding the four stages of learning can help you cope with the challenge and maintain your momentum. Here’s how to use the four stages of learning to make that new habit stick.

You're human; running at 110% is not sustainable. Exhaustion and burnout are serious problems in law. Setting boundaries is essential for lawyers to maintain a healthy balance in their lives. Yet succeeding in law practice can make this very challenging. Here’s 5 tips to help lawyers (and other humans) set and maintain boundaries.

Quick: you have three minutes to prepare a song to perform in front of the group! Your comfort zone is comfortable… and essential. So is challenging it. But don’t make the mistake of thinking the panic zone is where you need to be. You can be confident outside your comfort zone – it’s all about balance.

Go hard or go home! We know it’s easier for humans to make big changes by starting small, but we keep forgetting. In organisations, the impact is magnified.

If play is so good for us, smart people would spend lots of time doing it… right? Recently I’ve been revisiting Life Lessons by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler. I was reminded how central playfulness is to our wellbeing, and how often and easily we seem to put it low down on our lists.

Humans are wired, for survival, to avoid threats and pain. And we’re wired to prioritise immediate threats over distant ones. Which makes sense. If it’s a choice between fleeing a fast approaching tiger, thereby leaving some food behind and being hungry later, or avoiding later hunger by hanging around for a nice meal as the tiger runs towards you… clearly, it’s an easy choice.

I’ve learned, now, that slowing down can sometimes actually get you further than going fast. And sometimes quick, profound change is what’s needed. The challenge is knowing when to use which approach.

As a leader approaching 2021, have you considered the biggest challenges you expect your people to face this year, and how you will operate and lead?