Getting Away from it ALL!

Did you get away this summer on vacation? Good for you! What did you do? Play, get sunburned, sleep late, eat good food? Well yes you say, I did that between frequent check-ins to my smartphone and fielding a few calls from the office. You know work doesn’t stop when I go on vacation. Really? Why did you bother? To be effective in our work endeavors we need time away. I am not much of …

Handling Tolerations

We all have them…tolerations that is. Some may appear bigger or more consequential than others, yet they all have the same impact. Tolerations are a condition that is allowed to exist even though it tends to drain our energy. So how long is your list?   2, 5, 50 or 200?  My list started with 4 but grew to 50 quickly as I learned to recognize tolerations.  If you need help recognizing them, e-mail me at barbara@acceluspartners.com …

What are you Tolerating?

The last issue of this newsletter dealt with clutter in the physical and mental form. There was a sentence at the beginning that stated “Some of us are oblivious to the amount of clutter we have.” Oblivious? Yes, we can all get used to that mess of a desk or the disorganized closet, yet deep down inside we know it exists. There is also a form of clutter that we have a harder time seeing …

Creating Space (aka Decluttering)

Clutter. We all have it. For some of us we derive a feeling of importance from it. Others of us can’t imagine parting with any of it. Some of us are oblivious to the amount of clutter we have.  We need to create space. Clutter is physical. Open that closet again. Yes, it is the same feeling every time…overwhelm and “I just can’t deal with it now!”. Yet once you clear the clutter from the …

Developing Awareness

The last two messages involved you in a process to develop awareness. You can only harvest what you plant. Are you aware of what you are planting and nurturing? Awareness is two-fold: The amount of time we spend in reflection forming thoughts, opinions or ideas Where our attention is focused Instead of reflection we live in reaction, responding to what happens to us, rather than creating our world. In turn, our attention is focused on …