Tomorrow, and for the rest of this year, this blog will be devoted to 100 lunches. Here’s why:I’ve never been a great one for lunch breaks - too much to do and way too little time in which to do it - but after a run of afternoons when I’d arrived for the school pick up feeling distinctly below par, I decided to change my ways and take a proper, albeit small, lunch break.
Being incapable of spending half an hour doing nothing, I decided to use my lunch break to read. First of all I simply used the time to catch up on my favourite blogs and make some headway into my enormous reading pile.
But after a while I found I preferred to read articles which gave me something practical that I could go off and do. I guess that being in the middle of a busy day, my brain was primed for activity rather than just general interest.
So I changed the focus of my lunchtime reading into a search for good tips that I could experiment with immediately. Of course not all of them worked (for me, anyway) but I found plenty that added a certain little oomph to my business.
I started compiling a list of the stuff I liked and shared it with a few of my coaching clients. They loved it so I thought I’d share it more widely.
So the sharing starts, one tip at a time, tomorrow. And it's called 100 lunches because I thought you might want to take a ‘lunch and learn’ break too.
To date I’ve amassed about one hundred ‘lunch and learns’ and my intention is to post two of them a week; thinking that in seven days that’s quite enough for a busy Kitchen Table Tycoon to read and act on. And acting on is the name of the game here. No fluff: it’s all about to-dos!
Each ‘lunch and learn’ is bite-sized; I hope you find them quick to read and digest. I don’t have time for reading long blogs, and I doubt that you do either.
So here we go. First one will be up on Tuesday. You can get them direct by email if you sign up above; that way you won’t miss any.
I’d love to hear what you think of each ‘lunch and learn’ and the series. And of course if you have one you are happy to share please let me know - I’d love to include yours too.
A final note. ‘Lunch and learns’ are not meant to be prescriptive - I am certain that what works for one person doesn't necessarily work for another- but they are all activities that I have tried, found useful and enjoyed. I hope you do too.
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