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Find pre-holiday focus every day. Stop circling, start deciding.

Find pre-holiday focus every day. Stop circling, start deciding.

by Zena Everett | Nov 3, 2025 | Zena Everett's Blog

It’s November and is crazy busy again.   Are you on track to achieve your goals?  Do you spend most of your time doing what’s most important to you? Doing something unimportant well does not make it important.  Requiring a lot of time does not make it...
Sprinting into September?  Hold your horses. Slow down and find something more impactful to do.

Sprinting into September? Hold your horses. Slow down and find something more impactful to do.

by Zena Everett | Sep 2, 2025 | Zena Everett's Blog

Any pagans amongst you will be gently preparing for the autumn equinox, that midpoint between summer and winter which is a time of gratitude and reflection after the harvest.  Most readers are more likely to be on full speed already.  The same old story.  Our days are...
No time? No problem. Take 15 minutes and do just one thing.

No time? No problem. Take 15 minutes and do just one thing.

by Zena Everett | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog

Think 15 minutes isn’t enough to get anything meaningful done?  Think again.   I was inspired to write this by Nicola Lutz of No Fluff who teaches sales techniques to international education institutions.  She asks her clients to block out 15 minutes a...
Are you a Shoveller or a Shifter?

Are you a Shoveller or a Shifter?

by Zena Everett | Feb 3, 2025 | Zena Everett's Blog

Pop tarts don’t benefit us in any way, although I’m sure they taste great.  There is a work equivalent of pop tarts: low value tasks with no benefit, involving extra layers of touch points and bureaucracy.   Is your...
The thirty stage interview process and other mind-numbing bureaucracy

The thirty stage interview process and other mind-numbing bureaucracy

by Zena Everett | Nov 4, 2024 | Uncategorized, Zena Everett's Blog

Senior candidates at one global tech company have to undergo a thirty stage process before a hiring decision is made.  This is a classic example of  productivity drag: the sludge in the system that gets in the way of getting things done.  It’s...
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