Boss of Busy, 2nd Edition

Boss of busy planner

Before you tie a ribbon around this book, I'm obsessed about making sure that your desires don't gather dust alongside the baby photos under your bed but, rather, are strung out and crafted like award-winning Christmas light extravaganzas for all to see.

The anticipation of a new start is filled with excitement that makes your skin tingle. Not bad tingle, like stinging nettles, but good, goosebumpy tingles. Is this the moment to bite the bullet and finally make that change? Could this be the year??!!

Anticipation has a flip-side, however, and it kicks in when the excitement hangover wears off and the promise of beginnings quickly falls back into the mundane routine of washing up and red lights.

You feel a sense of deflation. You know, the same feeling you get when your favourite character on The Bachelor doesn't get picked at the rose ceremony. Or when you stock up during the Boxing Day sales with stuff that you soon just know will fuel your garage sales of the future. Short-lived excitement, followed by hall-cluttering regret.

So, what's going to be different in the coming months?

The one key difference between the things that stay as an idea and those that get transformed into reality is this: you work on them.

And this is where the real work starts. Within psychology I know that the right question at the right time has the power to prompt you to think differently and to see something you haven't seen before — and this can be a game changer. Planning ...