Clarity & Focus Blog
Top tips to help you have clarity and focus for your life and work.
How to Complete: Nearing the Finish Line After Fourteen Years
From running to writing, embrace the journey towards completion. Discover visualisation, accountability, progress tracking, collaboration, and faith as keys to success. Join the adventure!
Don't focus on negative habits. Instead create positive actions
It’s easy to focus on trying to control your doom-scrolling or news consuming to avoid information overload but don't focus on negative habits. Instead create positive actions.
The Price of Tomorrow
Finance is often a huge concern for creatives and entrepreneurs. Learning how the economy works can help you make more informed decisions.
Could you live without your smartphone?
Are you too attached to your smartphone? I was, and over recent years I slowly began the task of detaching, with a view to being smartphone free. Here’s how I got on.
4 transformational benefits of Reading
Reading can increase empathy and concentration as well as stave off the onset of Alzheimers and dementia. We look at 4 transformational benefits in more depth.
7 steps to create a Deep Work habit
How do you stay focused and concentrated enough to get quality work done? In this post I share my formula for Deep Work, and show you how it can work for you.
The 1 thing you never got told about boredom
Boredom is making a comeback. There’s been alot more research of late to indicate how this strange state can actually be beneficial to us. Take a look.
4 tips to stay productive during troubling times
With all that's going on in the world right now, with panic over COVID-19, there's understandably a lot of anxiety, stress and confusion. So here's four top tips to stay in control during times of panic.
How to increase your financial intelligence
One of the top reasons people give as to why they aren’t pursuing their purpose is lack of money. In Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki explains how it’s often a poor mindset that leads to a lack of finance.
5 ways to cope with working alone
It's not good to be alone. Don't make the checkout staff at your local supermarket your only regular human contact-as wonderful as they may be. Here's 5 ways to cope with working alone.
The Proximity Principle - How to do work you love
Are you spending most of your 90,000 working hours doing work you hate? In The Proximity Principle read about simple principles to change that.
7 Questions to help review your year and plan ahead
We are already into a brand new year and decade. If you haven’t already taken time to review last year and look ahead to this year, use these 7 questions to guide you.
Three questions to get clarity on your purpose
What’s your specific purpose in life? Here’s three questions to help you get clarity so you can head into the new decade with a bang!
How to visualise your future
If you don’t know where you’re going, how do you know if you get there? Journey with me into the future and describe your successful self.
How to take back control of your priorities
It’s easy to drift through life without setting your own priorities and ‘If you don’t prioritise your life, someone else will’. So how do you take back control?
Where are your boundaries?
A sure fire way to a stressful life is to have no clear boundaries. It seems noble at first to say yes to everything. Then things get difficult. Here’s why.
How much do you really want it?
How much do you want it? Whatever it is for you. A new job. Starting that business. Writing that book. Closer family relationships. It’s a question we need to ask ourselves regularly.
How to turn your overwhelm into clarity
It’s not difficult to realise that the way we live in modern society leads us to feeling more and more overwhelmed. Whilst not having a silver bullet, there are some things you can do to go from overwhelm to clarity.
How do I know if I’m ready for coaching?
I want to put you off coaching. Wait…what? Seriously, it might not be for you right now. But don’t panic. Read on for seven questions to check you are ready, because it’s only effective when you are ready.
The myth of the poor starving artist
We’ve been believing a lie. We’ve assumed that to be a true artist means you have to be poor. You have to continuously struggle. We were wrong.