News - Make Me A Plan

ADULTING BLIND SPOTS

The Being Yourself Series, from Make Me A Plan's Wellbeing Expert, Jane Studd

19.07.2022.

Last Saturday, two things happened to me in quick succession. First, I ran a Parkrun personal best. Immediately after, while on the phone to Principle Planner Anna, I stepped in dog poo. “You should write a blog post about this”,...

ON WORLDVIEWS

The Philosopher-in-Residence Blog Series from Make Me A Plan's Principal Planner, Anna Pascoe

14.07.2022.

When this Philosopher-in-Residence was a youthful undergraduate, pondering Politics and German at the University of Southampton, I used to describe myself as a Hobbesian Kantian. A beverage-break-sized blog is probably not suffice to give a full precis of Hobbes or Kant,...

ON THE ROAD

The Working Well Series from Make Me A Plan Productivity Expert, Pen Le Kelly

13.07.2022.

Having changed roles recently and needing to get out and visit various sites, I was reminded of the challenges of staying well while out and about for work. Staying away overnight or several nights can lead to a diet of takeaways, pub and restaurant food. This...

EVERYONE SHOULD TRY THERAPY

The Being Yourself Series, from Make Me A Plan's Wellbeing Expert, Jane Studd

05.07.2022.

This week, I had an amazingly positive conversation with one of my close friends. Now that I’ve finished university for the summer, we’ve been meeting up for long walk and talks on Southampton Common and, on our last meet-up, they asked me how they...

ON WONDER

The Philosopher-in-Residence Blog Series from Make Me A Plan's Principal Planner, Anna Pascoe

30.06.2022.

This Philosopher-in-Residence is an esoteric soul, as regular fans of plans and readers of this blog will attest. Recently, I’ve been musing on the role of wonder in mental health and wellbeing. This has entailed reflecting on childlike wonder, wherein everything is...

LEADING YOUR TEAM

The Working Well Series from Make Me A Plan Productivity Expert, Pen Le Kelly

29.06.2022.

Hello there, Fans of Plans! In this fortnight’s blog I’m going to be looking at an area of management that can be the most tricky to get right – people management. Some managers are seemingly natural people managers – they have that...

MINDFUL COMPARISON

The Being Yourself Series, from Make Me A Plan's Wellbeing Expert, Jane Studd

21.06.2022.

Admit it… We’ve all done it. Doom-scrolling through Facebook or Instagram, seeing post after post of bottomless brunches, exotic holidays, perfectly behaved children and grand romantic gestures from partners. Or if it’s not social media,...

ON TIME

The Philosopher-in-Residence Blog Series from Make Me A Plan's Principal Planner, Anna Pascoe

16.06.2022.

Regular fans of plans and readers of this blog will be familiar with this Philosopher-in-Residence’s penchant for puns, plays on words and suchlike. I therefore commence this latest edition with the confession that for last fortnight’s jubilee-themed On...

THE INTERVIEW PROCESS

The Working Well Series from Make Me A Plan Productivity Expert, Pen Le Kelly

15.06.2022.

It’s something most of us have to go through to enter the world of work, and repeat any number of times throughout our careers… it’s the dreaded interview process! I don’t know too many people that enjoy this process, both interviewer...

CHAPTER 1 - THE AWAKENING

The Make Me A Guest Blogger Series, with thanks to Ashley Ward, Electrician. Free thinking, boundary breaking, daddy of three

14.06.2022.

December 2021 I woke up this morning in a beautiful house overlooking the cold winter sea. My glowing wife asleep next to me, with our baby growing away inside her. My 4 year old daughter and my 2 year old son stumble into our bedroom, dazed and half asleep – a daily...