Continuous improvement is defined as ‘an ongoing effort to improve products, services or processes’. In a nutshell, this is my passion, motivating and guiding me through work and life. It’s difficult to always be improving, but there are some principles that if you keep in mind, will help you on that journey. Take Ownership The more Read More
Self improvement
Press All Of The Buttons
Today at the office I reminded myself of a very important lesson that I learnt years ago and one that pays off every time I remember it; be curious! Alone that isn’t very helpful, I know, so I’ll give it some context. Why Being Curious Is Great Today while doing a routine part of a regular Read More
Productivity Boosting Tools (for Windows): First Week Rundown
It has been a week since my first post on here, so I thought I would do a summary of how things have progressed, in order of how much I liked/used the tools. Desktops V2.0 This has been the most used tool this week by far. I have no idea how many times I’ve used the Read More
Making Friends With Deadlines
The feeling that there is never enough time to do anything is a common one these days, and I am no different. There are only so many hours in the day and with 7.5 of them belonging to my employer every week day, I have to be very careful with how I use that time. There Read More
The Importance Of Not Holding On: Part 1
This is a story about an Excel add-in that makes tracing back formulas and building finance-focused spreadsheets much easier than the standard Excel options. I had been working in commercial finance for a few months and was getting the hang of my job. The technical aspects were mostly fine, although sometimes when opening up another person’s Read More
Second Stage of Development
A year ago today I felt like I had encountered a second stage of development in my life. That isn’t the time that I thought I had started the second stage in my life, it was just the time that I ‘identified’ that I had entered it. I’d actually begun the second stage over a year Read More
The Journey Begins: Starting Over
I’ve tried blogging before, but it seems like it’s a difficult habit to stick to. One of the reasons may be that I haven’t written much since my school days. Another is that I sometimes lack confidence in the way I put across my thoughts. This time isn’t really much different, but I’m not trying to Read More