Now that business is getting into a rhythm for myself and my team, I have started implementing ‘Getting Things Done’ rigour. This includes working offline, ensuring that the ‘new email notification’ pop-up in Outlook is disabled and not allowing the whims of others to dictate where my time is invested.

For those who have not read it, every business person who works in today’s connected world should  It is transformational (but difficult to keep implemented). That being said, it has helped me massively over the last 5 years.

‘The winds and the waves are always on the sides of the ablest navigators’    Edward Gibbon

‘Rule your mind, or it will rule you’  Horace.