by Catherine Stothart | Aug 2, 2022 | Managing your time, Planning
Do you return to work after a holiday with good intentions to work fewer hours, keep your inbox empty, your meetings short and your stress levels low? Maybe you manage this for a few days, then before you know it, you find you have slipped back into old habits. This...
by Catherine Stothart | Apr 28, 2021 | Managing your time, Personality styles
Every time I have a holiday I say the same thing – when I get back, I must slow down, be less busy with work, make more time for friends….etc. Then after a while, the good resolutions are forgotten and I am as busy as ever. Maybe it’s just the way I am – I am...
by Catherine Stothart | Sep 27, 2019 | Resilience and re-energising
The Thomas Cook collapse got me thinking about holidays and what they are for. Amongst the many different answers to that question, a common one is “to get away from it all”. But what exactly are we getting away from? And why do we feel we need to? ...
by Catherine Stothart | Aug 14, 2018 | Personality styles
Holidaying Fast and Slow One of the differences between people’s personality styles is how they use time – whether they have a quick use of time, and speak and move fast, or whether they have a more sustained use of time and speak and move more slowly. (Remember...
