Well yesterday the man flu took a turn for the worse and completely flat lined me for the entire day. I couldn’t think straight or concentrate so I resigned myself to a day lying on the sofa trying to get better. Happily, that was the last of the man flu and now today I feel a whole lot better. I’m a little annoyed that a clean start to 2012 was obstructed by this, since today is the first day I actually feel well this year, but at least it’s over.

Whenever I need to get back into work, I take time to sit still and calm my mind through meditation. I remind myself to lock into gratitude and abundance (I now see these as absolutely tangible and no longer some ‘airy fairy’ concepts that no-one has ever heard of) and then I make a plan of attack. I normally will set a timer for ten minutes and focus on one project at a time for the next few hours. This allows me to cover everything I am doing in a matter of hours. This includes accounts, paperwork, taxes, emails, client projects, invoices, long term projects, my own websites, marketing and sales. I will normally do six things at first, then take a short break, then carry on. I make an attempt to cover everything that I consider an active project.

It’s surprising what you can accomplish in ten minutes if that is all you have to use, and whilst I’m an advocate of focusing for extended periods of time on one project, I like to use this ‘island hopping’ methodology every so often to keep up to date with everything that is going on.