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Help! Taming Tricky Teenager Tips Please?!

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I am ‘teenager sitting’ my nephew Joel, 13. My goodness you parents have my admiration. I don’t know how you don’t go grey the moment they shoot down the birth canal. I feel like a cross between a policewoman and a serial nagger. How people cope with it day after day, I really don’t know, I am more of the ‘naughty auntie, teach them a few bad habits and hand them back’ breed.

Stopping a thirteen year old from spending all day looking at computers should be a career. In fact maybe it probably is; “Preventative Consultant in X Box addiction.” Any companies thinking of spending £000s on influencing and persuasion skills training, save yourself the investment and send your executives to spent a day with a sulky bored teenager.

I am ready to leave the garden of England tomorrow and return to the peaceful teenager free zone of my cottage in Oxfordshire. Bliss. Off to read my own ‘saying no comfortably’ article – give myself a taste of my own medicine! 

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs042/1102862873131/archive/1103218836146.html

Any tips on handling teenagers, greatly appreciated. 

 

Cabin Fever And How To Cure It

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Do you find that there are certain tasks that you can procrastinate for England about rather than do? Would you rather pluck your nasal hair than do them? I am pretty decisive by nature, but there are a couple that get me dusting my light bulbs to avoid.

For me these are making prospect phone calls and creating proposals. I used to be a brand strategist in the communications industry who was kept in a darkened room and wheeled out for meetings to spout insights that would help the clients make more money. I am happy as Larry doing research and writing, but that other stuff, well I have to create the right conditions to get them done.

If you see a woman aged about 45 sitting hunched over a hot laptop on a long train route, think Stornaway to Penzance, or in a coffee shop long after the drink dregs have gone cold making prospect calls, that’ll be me. If I stayed at my home office, not only would I get severe cabin fever and start climbing the walls, these tasks would take ten times as long. What are your most creative avoidance strategies and least favourite tasks? Off to London to get on that yellow tube line.

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Exponential Delays And I’m Not Talking Trains

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I read somewhere once that things take on average 42% longer than you think they will. Increase the number of people involved in a project, and a dollop of post credit crunch risk aversion, and it’s probably more like 85%

I hate writing proposals so having given birth to one, feel very chuffed and want an instant response as reward. Months go by with such proposals floating wherever they reside. Frustrated by now, I put myself in my prospect’s shoes and think – very busy and stressed, doing 3 people’s jobs, make them smile. So I send them some tick boxes and an RSVP.

 All our budgets have been cut. All I have left will pay for a packet of Post It notes, one purple magic marker pen with sparkly ink and a college student from Outer Mongolia

 My feet haven’t touched the ground in weeks, I feel like a human helicopter. Bear with me, I will be in touch 

 I have spontaneously combusted and no longer exist 

Project? What project?

Any new ideas for my list?

Also, anyone out there happy to give me some interesting work without a proposal and with an instant decision!? Can’t wait!

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Do you feel too small to be effective? Mosquitos aren’t.

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I love this quote:

 “Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. “

Christie Todd Whitman

Sometimes it can feel difficult doing everything yourself being a small business, especially compared with big corporates. There’s no IT department to phone, you’re head of new business, marketing, accounts, office management and client servicing. And then there’s doing the work!  Last night there was a mosquito in my bedroom and I couldn’t see it before I turned off the light. I could hear it though!

This quote:

“Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. “ Christie Todd Whitman

inspires me keeps me going on difficult days!  Today the sun is shining, even if England’s World Cup football is over.

More and more of my clients want to make a difference, do you? If so, let’s have a chat. This client of mine Duncan Goose has made a huge difference. I helped him to escape from a job he hated and work out what he really wanted to do : http://www.onedifference.org/water

Off to buy some fly spray………..

Have a good day.

Rachel

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