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 ...
A Gratitude Planner
A few months ago I read Martin Seligman's Flourish, and while I knew some of the concepts (he is the founder of the Positive Psychology concept), I hadn't tried actually writing a gratitude list at the end of every day. Turns out, it was one of the happiest and most fulfilled periods of my life. It's also ...
Make time for doing nothing
I started to meditate sometime in my teenage years, and always had the feeling that I'm doing something wrong. Since then, I read several books on the subject, did countless guided and non-guided meditations, went to India and meditated with monks and even in the presence of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and reached two ...
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 ...
Erin Condren Life Planner – Review after 3 months!
I recently bought an Erin Condren Life Planner, after - of course! - a lot of thinking and analyzing options (find the process and the other options here). After I've been asked to write a review, here's how the colourful little planner helped me so far: 1. It's pricey, but it stands out. Not your average business planner, ...
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 ...
10 Questions to raise Engagement (GROW model)
Whether you're a manager talking to a direct report who has a problem, or a friend helping out someone who doesn't know what to do next... there's a simple flow of questions that can help bring focus and call to action. Coaches talk a lot about the GROW model, perhaps the most known - and simple! - ...
Career Coaching for Millennials – and a Career Planning Tool
(picture from www.personalbrandingblog.com) I've been asked to deliver 3 Career workshops in less than 3 months, and while I love doing that, I can't help but thinking what might be the increasing need behind. Is it a trend? According to many studies, Millennials (or Generation Y) are the spoiled and undecided generation. Sure, they have strengths, such ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
1 year of Life Toolkit! Best posts & Coaching challenge
So one year of blogging passed away, quite fast. What happened during this time? Looking back... - I started blogging like crazy, read all I could on SEO and social network promoting, then decided I should just let my readers unfold as they come. And that's how I got to this steady, smallish base of you ...
How to save. More.
Since the crisis started, I've been seeing a lot of articles on how to cut down on spending. I've always been the saving kind of person, doing budgeting, checking where my money goes, saving at first 10% of my income, then reaching up to 30% monthly. Recently, I've been looking a lot at my finances, income ...
Tool: Mini Notepad for To Dos
I've always been looking for the perfect Time Management tool to carry around. Organizers are too big and chunky, end up being stuffed with papers and never fit in small purses. Plus, you buy them for work only. What happens at home, if you remember something? Where do you put it? I tried the electronic version ...
