by Nicola J MacPhail | Aug 5, 2019 | psychology, research, structure
Why A Good ‘Work-Life Balance’ Shouldn’t be Your Primary Aim. The notion of a ‘work-life balance’ is ubiquitous, present in pretty much all thinking about well-being, business, and success. And its central concern – that our personal worlds should not be dominated by...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Jul 29, 2019 | books, research, structure
Learning from the CEO of Patagonia. He’s one of my idols, really. Every book he’s written I’ve devoured. Every time I see an interview with him, a podcast or an article, I track it down and pour over it. I think he has a lot to teach us all about what business can and...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Jul 15, 2019 | research, structure
The Beauty of Breaking Down Large Tasks into Manageable Bite-Sized Chunks. It’s sometimes quite fun to talk to clients about their to-do lists. Because, ironically, they are usually lists of tasks that just simply can’t be done. And clients give me the weirdest look...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Jul 8, 2019 | psychology, research, structure
Returning to Habit Formation. Regular readers will know that I am something of an aficionado of habit. I’m intrigued by the fact that, really, habits are the most important things we do in life (with almost half (!) of our daily activities done habitually). I’m hugely...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Jul 1, 2019 | psychology, structure
We’re All Too Quick to Judge Procrastinators. Regardless of right or wrong, procrastination has a bad reputation. It’s a habit that sees people leave things off until later – whenever that ‘later’ might be. And this very fact causes frustration among both...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Jun 10, 2019 | structure
The Secret to Achieving More? Do Less. This is the argument of the award-winning academic, corporate thinker, and motivational speaker, Morten T. Hansen – who has spent his life studying the theories and structures of management and performance in the workplace. His...
by Nicola J MacPhail | May 30, 2019 | structure
Your time is under pressure from all sides. From your business, from your home life, from the little voice – easily forgotten, but ever-present – that requests, pretty please, if there could be some time you could have to relax. In all this, there may not be the time...
by Nicola J MacPhail | Apr 8, 2019 | psychology, structure
I’m not the first person to point it out; it’s rather a topic that has a lot of space in public conversation. Despite this, however, there’s little sign that anyone is really doing much to manage it. What is it I’m talking about? The blurriness of the border between...
