The Rise of the Family PA
How a Family PA or Home Secretary can help you make the most of your valuable time . Read on if you need more time and energy for the things that truly matter to you….
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How a Family PA or Home Secretary can help you make the most of your valuable time . Read on if you need more time and energy for the things that truly matter to you….
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How Organising your home & office can improve your happiness & relationships
The Benefits of Organising your space from this …
to this!
Endless To Dos are not only exhausting, they can actually mess with many aspects of your life and by that I mean a lot more than your daily schedule or orderly home. Being organised is about having more time to yourself and letting you live a more balanced life.
Clutter can create tension and conflict, shame and embarrassment. This will create a physical and emotional boundary around you that prevents you from letting people in.
Living and working in a cluttered environment means that you will lose things, spend more time looking for them or forgetting altogether about them or simply no dealing with them. Unfortunately you are not only letting yourself down, you are letting people around you down. By letting people down, you are affecting your relationship with your partner, your family and your work colleagues.
Clutter is distracting! Research from the Journal of Neuroscience reports that “clutter can actually affect your ability to focus. Looking at too many things at once overloads your visual cortex and interferes with your brain’s ability to process information”
Organising the clutter around you will help you improve relationships & productivity at home and at work!
If you think of the bigger picture, how are you going to organise your thoughts, life and goals if you can’t even organise the clutter around you.
If you can’t do it by yourself, thing of a Practical solution: Would you consider, and can you afford, getting any help in even for a short while?
And don’t forget that other people’s tidying up is always easier to handle than your own because it is viewed simply as a task and is not imbued with emotion.
The most successful people take risks, they think big, they make & execute well thought out plans but mostly they surround themselves with support, not because they are weak or incompetent, but because they realise that to achieve and maintain success they need support. Who are you turning to for help? Just ask!
If you want to achieve success with your work-life balance, don’t be afraid to ask for help!
None of us can possibly do it all or do it well without a little help balancing the multiple demands of work and family that come along each day.
Sometimes with all our big ideas, big projects, big goals, and big lives, life can seem . . . hard or a really difficult challenge. WE are the biggest obstacle to a life with more ease & less stress. A lot of the time, with a few simple tweaks and adjustments life could be a lot easier.
Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness!
Asking for help can be the place where we find the most instant ease, unfortunately it is also a place we tend to overlook. Other people have answers and skills and talents that we don’t have. It’s more fun to do something difficult in the company of others. Where are you flying solo when you might really benefit from delegating, bringing in a partner, a mentor, an expert!
Rethink your errands, consider whether you can outsource any of your time consuming household chores, errands and home organisation.
Even if you’re on a tight budget, you may discover that the time you’ll save will make it worth it. Allow yourself Precious Time to spend with your family & friends, Precious Time for the things that really matter to you…
The average “stay-at-home” mother gets through 31 hours of chores every week, which does not include other essential tasks such as food shopping.
On top of clearing up after the kids, from getting them to school in the morning to tucking them in bed in the evening , mums spend eight hours washing and cooking, four hours cleaning and two hours ironing.
As for working mums, they will have to cram it all in at the weekend. Instead of going to the gym, they will be trying their best to be a cheerful, involved mum spending quality with the child they have barely seen all week, even though they are completely exhausted.
A majority of mums reckon they never get a proper day off to unwind and enjoy time with their family and spend quality time together.
In most cases, mums are the head of the modern household and are more likely than dad to be the ones organising the family for days out and holidays.
Mums are the engine of the family and are heavily relied upon to keep home life as it should be. However many feel they never really get a proper day off. It’s important to be able to switch off and escape those hectic daily routines.
Every Mum is different but special in her own way and Mother’s day is the perfect opportunity to show your mum how much you appreciate her and all she does for her family. Here are some simple ideas to make her day so special…..
Make her breakfast in bed
Plan morning or afternoon tea
Make a memorable lunch or dinner
Spoil her with sweet treats
Treat her to a hot chocolate
Bring her favourite wine and flowers
Treat her to a manicure, pedicure
Take her to a spa
Give her a clean house
Bring that relaxed spa atmosphere home
Take her for a mini makeover
Give her the gift of time!
The lengths we go with delaying tactics to avoid doing certain tasks can be extraordinary. Day after day, strategies of avoidance may come to dominate how we spend our time. Everything becomes more inviting than that which we are supposed to be doing.
We make clever evasive deals with ourselves like, “I’ll tidy up the shoe rack, then I’ll get started.” A whole house then turns immaculate in the process of our not making a difficult phone call or not starting in on paperwork with a looming deadline.
We all tend to put off what makes us uncomfortable, for example chores that require time and demand focused attention. Sometimes we would rather do anything than face demanding chores. This is this art of Procrastination!
But strategies of avoidance can take a toll on us as we end up being driven by negative consequences—letting people down, losing opportunities due to missed deadlines, feeling guilty, useless and unable to cope. Avoidance just keeps on costing us more in our relationships with people who count on us, in addition to peace of mind.
So don’t let tasks & chores nag you the entire time….. asking for help is your first step to a happier state of mind!
How Senior Citizens can benefit from a Personal Assistant !
A PA will assist their Senior Citizens clients with shopping, travel arrangements, and home organisation tasks and paperwork . A PA will help with recreational activities; Arrange for vehicle maintenance and repairs, home services, transportation, cleaning, maintenance and lawn care, running errands, plan and arrange social activities…… the sky is the limit!
So don’t be afraid to ask and see for yourself how the benefits can make your life a lot more enjoyable!
New Year’s Day. A fresh organised start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written.
A new year provides fertile footing for a fresh start. So whatever your intention is for 2017, make it a good one. This life is yours to make of it whatever you desire, so start now!
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one.” – By Mark Twain
What are you going to do now to make sure you have your best year ever? What one thing will mean the difference in actually achieving your goals rather than chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions?
In order to get your resolutions underway, Be Organised !
Write your New Year’s Resolution list out on a planner, chart or calendar where you can make notes. It helps your focus to make notes and lists to direct your efforts in starting new habits.
Write down any needed item so that you can work out whether you already have what’s needed or need to buy, beg, borrow or freecycle it.
Write down anything else of relevance, for example memberships, travel, subscriptions or any other service necessary to help achieve your resolutions.
Start by Clearing the space around you!
Are there piles of papers and books on the desk and floor? Clean them up in short bursts here and there.
Do you have trouble finding things, from keys to socks? Look for simple solutions, such as hanging up a key holder and setting up a special lost sock basket.
Hate cleaning? Try to convince yourself it’s exercise, a moment of Zen or a chance to throw out old junk. Find help and delegate the cleaning jobs to others as much as possible and try to arrange it so that you’re doing what you’re best at.
Take de-cluttering steps by steps. For example, sort through your desk on Monday, re-arrange your wardrobe on Tuesday and Wednesday, go through your bookshelf on Thursday, vacuum on Friday, dust on Saturday, and sort out whatever else needs to be organised on Sunday.
Once you’ve sorted out the specific high-use areas around you, you will realise it’s much easier to concentrate and achieve your New Year’s Goals!
Christmas is approaching fast, how exciting for most of us. But for some some, it will be a sad event.
Do something amazing this Christmas and help combat loneliness. Contact Age Uk who are actively trying to recruit more volunteers, read on….
Age UK is the country’s largest charity dedicated to helping everyone make the most of later life.
The over-60s is the fastest-growing group in society and there are more of us than ever before.
Ageing is not an illness, but it can be challenging. At Age UK we provide services and support at a national and local level to inspire, enable and support older people.
We stand up and speak for all those who have reached later life, and also protect the long-term interests of future generations.
Our vision is ambitious. It won’t be easy to get there, and it won’t be a quick journey, but we believe it’s how things should be for older people and we work every day to achieve this.
Age UK would not be able to function properly without the dedication of the more than 75,000 volunteers who get involved and help all older people to make the most of later life.
The action of delaying or postponing something.
“Your first tip is to avoid procrastination”
Procrastination is an easy way that all of us get stuck. And yet, we may not even realize we’re doing it. When we unknowingly act like an Avoider, we create reasons in our heads that supply us with enough logic that we can delay the task at hand. The results can be very negative for yourself, friends, family and your work.
Here are more tips to stop procrastinating…
HELP IS KEY – You might think it makes you look weak or not smart enough, but the most successful people rely on others to help them do their jobs better.
Successful people are people who get things done. How do they get things done? They take risks, they think big, and they make and execute well-thought out plans. There’s something else they do that most people don’t think about: successful people ask for help.
Call it what you will—building a team, outsourcing, collaborating, delegating, etc.—it all amounts to asking for help. And that is a critical factor in professional and personal success.
Many of us are hardwired NOT to ask for help. We think it makes us appear weak. We think we have to be supermen or superwomen. We think we have to do everything ourselves. Whatever the reason, we don’t ask for the help we need.
We have to get over that, NO ONE got anywhere alone. You cannot and should not do everything yourself.
Too much doing, going, helping and giving can take a toll on us, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Most medical books attribute anywhere from 50 to 80 per cent of all diseases to stress-related origins (Stress Among Women in Modern Society, Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1992). When we get really busy, we are quick to cut corners on the Big Three: sleep, exercise and healthy eating.
Asking for help is a sign of strength, not weakness. Asking for help clears space for you and frees your time and energy. It’s a smart strategy.
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