Top Tips

Time management can allow you more time with your family and friends, increase your performance and productivity…it can also help you to reduce stress.  To improve your time management:

1. Save time by focusing and concentrating on one task at a time.
2. Delegate as much as you can, ideally leaving yourself only the tasks that you alone can do.
3. Take out your diary and schedule time in for yourself.
4. Whilst you have your diary out start keeping a record of how you spend your time (include work, family and leisure) you might be surprised by how much time you are giving to something that isn’t really important to you.
5. Examine your beliefs and aim to eliminate ( or at least reduce) any conflict between what you believe and what you spend your time doing
6. Prioritise your time by rating a task’s importance and urgency. Then focus your time of the tasks that are important and meaningful to you. Do not move on to unimportant tasks, however inviting, until the top priorities are complete
7. Use a daily planner to help deal with procrastination, and to help you break down larger projects by setting short-term objectives
8. Develop strategies to deal with difficult situations in advance.  One way of doing this is to think about how you have coped with similar situations in the past, what worked well and what didn’t, what you can change or control.  This will save you wasting your time of strategies that do not work.

Calmspace Limited offers time management training and coaching. For further information visit www.calmspace.co.uk

Upcoming Events

Maureen O’Callaghan will be delivering the following short courses:

Lincoln

Mondays 10.00am – 12.00noon

Market Rasen

Mondays  1.00pm – 3.00pm

Grantham

Tuesdays 7.00- 9.00pm

Weeks beginning:

4 week Stress Management
24th Sept – 15th Oct 2007
6 Week Introduction to Relaxation Techniques
29th Oct – 3rd Dec 2007
Confidence Building
7th Jan – 4th Feb 2008
Introduction to Reiki
18th Feb – 17th March 2008
Indian Head Massage
21st April – 19th May 2008

News

IOSH calls for employers to tackle workplace stress
The Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called on employers to minimise workplace stress following the publication of research undertaken by King’s College London, showing that stressful jobs appear to cause clinical depression and anxiety in previously healthy workers.
Source: www.iosh.org.uk

News Continued

Employers are ignoring occupational health

Most employers are woefully ignorant about the need to improve workplace health, either dismissing is as too expensive or a waste of time. Research for Investors in people found employers generally failed to recognise the needs of employers when it came to creating a healthy workplace. A quarter of the people involved in the research said their organisation did not take action because managers simply did not know how best to help, with a further 17% saying it would be too expensive.
 
Source: www.PersonnelToday.com

Many Brits take work on holiday

A shocking 20 million Britain’s thought it was necessary to take their work on holiday, and two thirds of those questioned admitted to having their holidays interrupted by work, while 80% worried about work while they were away.
 
Source: www.breakingtravelnews.com

This Month’s Offers

Free E Coaching for a limited period

Calmspace Limited is currently trialling an E life coaching programme.  If you are interested in taking part in the trial please email enquiries@calmspace.co.uk

Useful Resources

How to deal with Stress
Stephen Palmer and Gary Cooper
Kogan Press
 
The Power of Letting Go
Patricia Carrington Phd
Vega
 
Change your Thinking
Dr Sarah Edelman
Vermillion, London
 

Inspiring Quotes

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. “ Ralph Waldo Emerson