Blog - WorkLifePsych

Mar 09

Schrödinger’s email: using your technology with intention

Do you find yourself automatically checking your email in the evening? Do you catch yourself getting lost in a social media stream when you should be working? Do your device's various notifications get your attention faster than anyone in your family can? Would you like to be more deliberate and... read more →

Feb 25

Productive prioritising: choosing with intention

Core to being productive in a sustainable and healthy way is realising that it requires prioritisation. As David Allen points out in ‘Getting things done’, you can do anything - but not everything. Prioritising our workload is a key skill if we want to ensure we get more of the... read more →

Feb 19

The top 5 productivity mistakes you’re probably making

The word ‘productivity’ can elicit groans and eye-rolling, as it’s been over-used and misunderstood for quite some time now. I take a pragmatic view and define it simply as doing the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. This doesn’t imply mountains of outputs or some kind... read more →

Feb 02

Announcing WorkLifePsych.club

Last year, we ran a series of free public webinars on a range of psychology topics. While feedback was great, it’s not possible for everyone to down tools and take part in a webinar at a set time. So when thinking about 2021, I knew we had to come up... read more →

Dec 22

‘My Pocket Psych’: a year in review

We're at the end of another year - albeit an incredibly strange and challenging one. Despite everything, or indeed because of everything, we've continued to release our podcast on a fortnightly basis. At this time of the year, I like to look back and see what topics and guests have... read more →

Dec 14

A new perspective on working from home

We've recently launched a new podcast series all about working from home. Indications are that it's not going anywhere anytime soon, so it's much better to look at how we can make the experience a healthy and sustainable one. Let's draw a line under the 'working from home in a... read more →

Jul 22

Why you should treat your personal development like a project

Why do we sometimes fail to make the progress on our personal development that we’d hoped? It may be that there’s a lot of good intentions, but insufficient action to make a difference. Think about those books left unread. The YouTube videos you’ve ’saved for later’ but never watched. The... read more →

Jun 22

Introducing Bite-sized Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought untold disruption to our daily lives. For millions of people, this has meant trying to work at home, a state of affairs that isn’t going to change any time soon. Even with the reopening of workplaces, there will almost certainly be a large proportion of... read more →

Apr 14

Covid-19: Coping with overwhelm

The present coronavirus gives plenty of opportunity for us to feel like it’s all a bit much. Bad news from around the world, massive disruption to our routines and freedom of movement, family difficulties and the worry of being ill. Frankly, it can feel overwhelming. If you can identify with... read more →

Mar 26

You don’t have to be ‘productive’

This health emergency is truly unprecedented in its scope and impact. So yeah, it’s okay to be feeling a whole mixture of things right now: fear, anxiety, frustration, helplessness. But if you’re one of the many thousands of people who are being forced to work from their homes due to... read more →