A new year

Welcome back, yeah right.... So you've been away on a holiday break and you're now back at work refreshed and ready to attack a new year with vigour and passion. This break you made some decisions about your future and you can't wait until you get into it..... Hmmmm maybe not! So you've had a great break and now being back at work is horrible, you lack focus (especially with this hot weather in Canterbury we're having) motivation, got lost somewhere between Xmas pudding and 2am New Years Eve

Ok so the truth lies probably in the middle for most of us, we have plans for the new year but getting back into the daily ritual of working is hard, so here's how I have done it:-

• Plan the first day as a planning day only, clearing emails and generally mucking about. I found that after doing this I was more prepared to actually do some work, the tasks and objectives were now documented and recorded so it had me relax and not feeling over whelmed
• Turn up in the office everyday for the first week with no massive expectations of personal performance, expecting that after a lovely break you'll be full of beans could be dangerous as it'll set up feelings of guilt when you do get to the end of the day with little achieved. All I did was sit at my computer at 7-7:30 every morning and start from there, it was a making that a couple of days I worked so well that I didn't even consider breaking for lunch until 2am.... Of course I rewarded myself with a 2 hour training ride ;-)
• Be casual if you can get away with it, going straight from jandels to lace up shoes and a tie is down right depressing, I found that I went to the office a couple of days and wore dress shorts and a tidy clean shirt and this had me feel like I was still in control and on a break...

I'm sure that you may have a strategy feel free to share your strategies with us

 

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Stay on mission with Week Cal

This is my first blog attempting to share the beauty and experience of the iPad and the iPhone.

I've now had an iPhone for over 12 months, a 4s for six months and an iPad for a month tested and used over 250 different apps and become reliant on the technology every single day. This has lead me to decide to blog on a regular basis to assist those that enjoy the iPhone and iPad to be more productive and have more fun! 

Week Cal

 

I've decided to rave about this app first, it's the one I've used the longest, has stayed in my main menu since first bought it and use many times aday.

 

Now being a very busy person, with three kids a wife, a cycling addiction and a small business dealing with many clients, I needed a system that organised my time in a graphical manner (see the image) and that could sync with my google calendar without fail. It had to be very reliable and easy to put new calendar entries into as there is very little patience with time tardiness in my industry.

 

Week-cals strength is in three areas, the templates that assist with very fast new entries, the week view and finally the colour coding making it easy to see important meetings on a small screen. The rest of the calendar functions a what you would expect with good calendar, but these features I could not find anywhere else on the app store. Testimony to the quality of the app is that even with a bigger iPad and a computer I still reach for the iPhone with week-cal.