What will change when you question the ‘musts’ and ‘shoulds’ and all the other rules you framed to get by in life? Giving yourself permission sounds like taking the easy way out. But it is, in fact, making a hard
The Work Life Balance Conversations: Chef Taffy Elrod
Launching today is a new series of conversations on work life balance with industry professionals and change makers. While all of us agree that it is a challenge, we rarely acknowledge just how much our work life balance impacts us.
Isn’t it time for solutions?
Would you agree? Isn’t it time for Hospitality to move towards finding solutions to the challenges we face? I normally talk about the individual, because this platform has been set up to help you. But when positive change is made
Stress in Hospitality: what we overlook
Like the Top 10 tennis player with the weird serve, we hold onto our ways of working in the kitchen without questioning them. The first reason for this is because we never stop long enough to reflect on HOW and
Moving towards change
I would not be able to do justice to the topic of stress and how it affects our work life balance without addressing how the workplace itself contributes to that problem. Because change in our industry has to happen at
What am I giving energy to?
Energy management is a profound subject, but this question is a simple tool that you can use. As I said earlier this week, we work in a profession where we are required to be alert at all times. And yes,
We affect each other
Then there is the group mind and how it affects our stress levels. This is a survival skill we developed as humans: to tune in to those around us. And if there is stress in the environment, needless to say,
It’s all about energy, chefs
This week I want to talk about some things that get in our way, as we seek to manage the stress of working in a kitchen. As always, I start with what is in our control. Part of that is
Final reminder: Rebalance Yourself
BOOKINGS CLOSE TODAY: August bookings for the Rebalance Yourself Strategy Session close today. In the video I share some final thoughts on why dealing with stress is such a challenge for us, even when we might know what the solutions
“Stress manages me”
“I know the saying goes ‘manage stress before it manages you’. But if I’m honest, I think I let it manage me, more often than not.” You know for certain that you do not want to be ‘one of those’