| 01 September 2011
Why do we often go on about how busy we are? It's as if we regard how busy we are as a symbol of self-worth or success. Do you 'do busy' in the hallucination of trying to be successful when in reality you are caught up doing things to make up for the fact that you don't feel successful?
Here I discuss why being busy doesn't mean your successful. In fact, the stressed out state you go into when "doing busy" actually lowers your productivity and can inhibit success...
| 26 November 2009
I have to admit, I am not the most technologically savvy of people in the world but at the same time I am not scared of using new technology. A lot of technological advances like mobile phones, I phones and Blackberries can greatly improve our productivity and work life balance but some applications in this time-poor society like texting, emailing and twittering seem to be adding to our workloads and dampening our productivity...
| 03 November 2009
Having an enjoyable workplace and client base is a key to a well-run business, but for the sake of having a healthy work-life balance it is also important that the workload is evenly shared by the team. It is often the honest, reliable team member that everyone likes who often ends up being the one whose life is thrown out of balance by work overload.
Although the blame is regularly laid at the feet of over-demanding bosses, the workers who take on the extra duties are equally at fault...
