Woody Wonders

  Sometimes you need to take a step back and ... think Last week I spoke about procrastination and either not taking enough action or the fear of starting something.  At the other end of the scale, we can be so busy 'actioning' that we don't have any 'thinking' time.   Taking time out to simply think is really important.  It's what actually keeps us progressing and moving forwards.  If we don't have the capacity for strategic thinking then how are we we going to keep coming up with new ideas.  From thinking things through we can then take the necessary action. I always used to take the mickey out of Mr Bob when he announced he was taking himself off for some thinking time.  Mainly because that usually meant I could hear him snoring within 10 minutes!  Thinking time?  Yeah right.  Although I shouldn't be too hard on him because it does seem to work.  Any time he has a problem or needs to come up with a new way of working, he ste...

Don't let your challenges become a mountain, tackle them whilst they're still molehills! I've felt completely overwhelmed this week, there's lots going on in my life right now and it seemed like all the balls I'd been juggling had come crashing down around me. It all came to a head on Thursday evening; I'd not completed half the things I wanted to at work, me and the lovely Mr Bob had still not decided on some big decisions for our new house and we needed to get things moving, I hadn't done any French practise, I'd not done the running mileage that I needed to do this week for my upcoming half marathon and I still had to complete my fitness planning for the next morning!  I felt like I was scrambling up the side of an icy mountain, getting so far and then sliding back down to the bottom.  It was time to flatten this mountain back down to a molehill. When faced with challenges, it often forces you to re-think the situation and ask the follo...