When my son Trent was 11, I attended a presentation on “Raising Boys.” I already felt competent having a daughter and wanted more insight to the world of boys, which is much more simpler than raising girls!

Boys from the age of 6 -14 really need ‘time’ with their dads. That is the most influential period in their lives when they bond with him. And the type of time they need is not all thrown into a ‘once a week’ or ‘month’ block or some exotic holiday once a year.They need to spend time with their sons on a regular basis. Otherwise how can you build a strong and stable relationship? Commonsense, isn’t it?

For the single mums reading this, don’t despair. If you are estranged from your partner and bringing up your son alone, having a positive male role model in his life, i.e. uncle, brother, grandfather, teacher, tennis coach, etc. will work as well.

Do you have any favourite TV shows? I do and one of them is “The Biggest Loser”.  Any show that highlights health and fitness to the nation and how important it is to your well-being, has got to be a good thing.

Sure it’s an ‘unreal’ environment, the exercise regime is excessive and you’ve got to question some of the activities and challenges, however overall it’s very interesting. In an episode this year, one of the team members had to choose the main food supply for the week for his team.  The choices were between cabbages and unmarked tinned food.

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Have you heard of the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 rule?

It goes like this:

• 80% of your results are produced by 20% of your efforts

• 80% of your income comes from 20% of your clients

• 80% of your files are used 20% of the time

are you getting the picture?

It’s little things that make a huge difference on how productive you are.
Unfortunately it can be difficult to see the solutions yourself as you get so immersed in your story of how busy you are, that you can be totally unaware of the time you waste.

How often do you let your time get chewed up by others? Now you don’t consciously set out to let people waste your time, however without realising it you are probably allowing it to happen.

One of my clients, John, recently hired a new team member. At his previous workplace, Barry had a boss who always had his door open and let the staff wander in. Barry’s boss liked to have an ‘open door’ to show that he was accessible to his team. That sounds very noble but the reality is, that Barry’s ex boss would get very little done for himself as he was constantly letting others interrupt him.