My business and personal theme for 2020: Abundance
How to take a business forward by thinking differently. My vision for 2020 is to turn her mindset from scarcity to abundance.
Category: Life Management
A system for getting things done
I have a working system for getting things done. It wasn’t always that way. Years ago, going back to work after three years at home with a baby/toddler, I was overwhelmed. I am widely thought of as an organised person, but being a working parent meant I needed to up my game. I started out with complex task lists in the systems that come bundled with Windows, and added similarly complex calendars that linked to…
When breakfast becomes deskfast
I ate breakfast at my desk today, as I have done on most work days for the last 20 years or more. This is because of the odd hours dictated by work in online news (and, where they still exist, by afternoon newspapers). And these odd hours are one of the things that most people don’t grasp about journalism… that in order for there to be something to read, someone has to have been up…
7 ways to a less cluttered house
Cape Town – When my niece was in Grade 2, she needed an empty shoebox for a project. This should have been simple – but it wasn’t. Neither my sister, my mother nor I had such a thing as an empty shoebox. I had to ask a colleague (who has beautiful taste in shoes) to bring one to the office so that the school could get its project.
How to fail at being middle class
Being middle class is supposed to be a comfy, complacent sort of thing. But there are silent struggles everywhere you look.
Why we love old recipe books
Through the handing down of these familiar companions, our mothers were handing on memories and connecting generations over the love of what is both a daily chore and a source of life.
A system for getting things done
I have a working system for getting things done. It wasn’t always that way. Years ago, going back to work after three years at home with a baby/toddler, I was overwhelmed. I am widely thought of as an organised person, but being a working parent meant I needed to up my game. I started out with complex task lists in the systems that come bundled with Windows, and added similarly complex calendars that linked to…
When breakfast becomes deskfast
I ate breakfast at my desk today, as I have done on most work days for the last 20 years or more. This is because of the odd hours dictated by work in online news (and, where they still exist, by afternoon newspapers). And these odd hours are one of the things that most people don’t grasp about journalism… that in order for there to be something to read, someone has to have been up…
7 ways to a less cluttered house
Cape Town – When my niece was in Grade 2, she needed an empty shoebox for a project. This should have been simple – but it wasn’t. Neither my sister, my mother nor I had such a thing as an empty shoebox. I had to ask a colleague (who has beautiful taste in shoes) to bring one to the office so that the school could get its project.
How to fail at being middle class
Being middle class is supposed to be a comfy, complacent sort of thing. But there are silent struggles everywhere you look.
Why we love old recipe books
Through the handing down of these familiar companions, our mothers were handing on memories and connecting generations over the love of what is both a daily chore and a source of life.