Four day work week?  Maybe not so fast…

As many of you know at NEP we are all for working smarter not harder. We have always been about getting outcomes rather than just looking busy, so naturally we are following this 4 day work week research and discussion with interest…

Plenty of things are technically a good idea, easy enough to execute. In isolation, and in a perfect world, sure. I could do 20 different tasks in deep focus. But in reality, not quite…

“It’s shameful”, Greg tells me, “I have no routine apart from the work and family obligations. Everyone thinks I’m doing really well, but really I’m struggling deep beneath”.

There are so many ways to fit in study – some are quite obvious (in theory) and others take a bit of understanding of some neuroscience and psychology.

“I know everyone’s telling me I’ve got to be grateful, I know looking at all the people around me, I should. But I can’t. Am I a bad person?”, my client Terence asks me.

“Yes I remembered The List, and I did them!”, my client pings me a year after our work together. I love making these lists because they are memorable and more importantly, they circumvent how we’re wired to sabotage ourselves.

Working on yourself is hard. We now have so many resources at our fingertips to constantly be reviewing who we are and how we work that it can be overwhelming.

Like it or not, pretty much everyone has had a chance to experience working from home thanks to COVID.

For many people, 2020 has felt like all systems go. People have been forced to spend energy credits on things they never thought they would spend energy credits on.

When I need to ground myself or get out of a funk, I cook or sing.