Planning

A deep focus hack from my Uncle

Listen to audio version I lost my uncle Patrick McCarville last month. He was a great man and had a great life – a life most would not believe. He w...

Meetings: The protein of the business world

Listen to audio version As a child growing up in Dublin in the 1970s, I knew nothing other than ‘meat and two veg’ for dinner. My mother was a cap...

Identify your value

Listen to audio version What makes you valuable at work? It sounds like a simple question, but most people struggle to answer it clearly. They can list thei...

The value of space

Listen to audio version I listened to a recent podcast where the British actor Bill Nighy said something about his apartment that has stuck with me. He love...

If it’s always ‘last minute’, it’s not a time problem – it’s a choice problem

Listen to audio version We’ve all been there: the deadline looms, the pressure mounts, and we find ourselves scrambling to finish something we knew was im...

The rule of ten

Listen to audio version A client I was working with recently asked me how many notebooks she should keep active in Microsoft OneNote. She wanted to know the...