Forget Habits; Try Rituals
Change is tough. We’re nearing the end of February and I wonder how you’re getting on with your New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps the great plans to exercise more, eat better, work less have all faded into another busy year. Perhaps you set yourself some Big Hairy Audacious Goals for 2012 but they are now just...
Little Acts of Kindness
”No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop This is a guest post from Bridget Stacey-Luff, founder of An Urban Om and co-author of The Business Yogi: how to be happy at work (out April 2012). Remember the first Valentines card you gave? (Not the one to your mother! But the first one...
How To Be Happy at Work: A Pinterest Experiment
This Saturday, 11th February is World Happy Day when thousands of people will come together to watch screenings of the movie Happy. I am fascinated that World Happy Day is on a Saturday and not on a weekday which reminded me of research I read on the Action for Happiness site that found that in...
What Is The Most Important Thing?
”The mundane details of our life eat us up. Therefore it is important to keep asking ourselves again and again: what is the most important thing?” – Pema Chodron There’s something about this time of year. I don’t know if it’s the dark mornings, the grey days or the cold evenings but I just want...
A Simple Formula for Mindful Productivity
My journey as a productivity geek started in 2008. At the beginning of that year, after months of deliberately avoiding it, I picked up Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek. His advice was simple: choose the work which is going to maximise your results (the 80/20 rule) and do it in the shortest time possible by setting yourself...
Forget New Years Resolutions; Make a To Stop List Instead
January is a time of review and planning, of looking forward and making goals and resolutions for the coming year. But sometimes as well as defining what we are going to do in our business and life, it’s essential to identify those things we are going to stop. I was inspired to put together my...
