I haven't written in a while. Between raising a 1 year old, taking care of the house, and managing my own free time and sanity, I somehow found a mental space to ask myself: "If I were, in this one year away from work, to do something else, something that truly defines me, what would it be?" After ...
Review: Rituals for Living Dreambook & Planner
I know I've been away for quite some time. In the meanwhile I finished another coaching school, trained for and then ran a half marathon, and tried to find more time for myself (as you can see from the above, not working that well :)). So when I received the offer to do a review for ...
Minimalist packing
I try to never check my bag, unless it's a long vacation (2 weeks or similar) and/or I plan to carry back 3 bottles of local alcohol produce, which is the case for most of my travels in foreign locations. Anyways. I may not be the minimalist traveler as Leo of ZenHabits, but I gathered a ...
My brand new Life Planner!
I don't know about you, but I feel this first half of 2012 has been pretty hectic. I've had numerous new projects, long term priorities, meetings with long lost friends, catching up on older acquaintances, and on top, lots of hard work, at work. It's been getting hard to juggle all of these, and I knew ...
How to leave work on time and enjoy life more
Usually when I talk to people about their workload, they say they just can't leave early, and find various excuses: - "my work is not done" - "I have too much on my plate and need to finish it today" - "there's an important deadline tomorrow" - "I was in meetings all day and now I have to catch ...
Jevons Paradox in Time Management
Inspired by the recent Time Management infograph in DOR Magazine (the infograph was made by Quickdata.ro but for some reason can't be found on their website, so I'm afraid you're going to have to buy the magazine :D) I set out to research a bit on Jevons' Paradox. Jevons' Paradox : - The more efficiently a resource ...
Control vs Freedom – A Power Tool
This is a post inspired by my Power Tool submission for my coaching training. A Power Tool is an antagonism (two opposite concepts) that a client can use to his benefit in one extreme or the other. I chose to write about Control. Control vs Freedom We live in an era of multitasking, and we find ourselves ...
Taking the time to read
In a different life, my dream job is to be a librarian. I spent many autumn and winter afternoons in the Bucharest British Council library, near a roof window facing trees and grey skies. While working 3 months in Chicago, one of my favorite places was the Library - the large one with 7 floors, in the ...
Procrastination – why it’s hopeless and what you can still do about it
Note: Procrastination is the nasty habit of postponing things that need to get done. All the time. On the other hand, if you're not so familiar with Procrastination, you might not be needing this article, because you're a very happy and efficient person. So much has been written in the Productivity Bloging realm about Procrastination - two of ...
How to create a weekly meal plan
I've been cooking (ha!) this idea for more than a few weeks, since I've started looking in the fridge and realizing (a) there is no cookable food in there and (b) I don't have the energy to think up or look up what could be possibly assembled from the bits and pieces there. I am lucky to say ...
Spring rebalancing – update Week 2 and conclusions
Two weeks ago I started a mental-physical-emotional-spiritual Spring Detox. Why, and how I planned to do it, read here. And the update after the first week, here. So what happened this week: Conscious about my goals, I completely refrained from eating meat. That is, until Friday, when I gave in to some beef wrap advertised so much ...
Spring rebalancing – update Week 1
I wrote last week about starting a re-balancing endeavour for myself. I was a mess, physically and mentally, and realized I needed to do something about it. So in last week's post you'll find that I set to make some changes in 4 areas: - Physical - eating healthy, going to bed earlier and exercising - Mental ...
How to choose your 2011 Planner
In about 15 years of using organizers (yes, I started early), I experimented quite a few solutions. And now, the market is more diversified than ever, offering various types of organizers, agendas, planners, notebooks, all colours, shapes, types, sizes, filled with all possible templates for organizing mostly any life. So, out of a large array of choices, ...
The one simple thing that will help you get organized
People tell me I'm structured, analytical and organized. (of course, more often than not, they also tell me I'm strange, moody, and inconsistent). (I think the two sides make quite an interesting combination, and I don't intend to change either of them). Anyways, along time I've experimented (as you can tell by the posts on this blog) with ...
Easier Holidays
It's the first of December and I can't stop thinking that for many people out there, the most stressful time of the year has begun. Why are we creating such a mess on what's supposed to be the happiest time of the year? Sure, some of it is not our own doing - snow blizzards, frozen ...
