10/11/2025
Anyone else wondering where this last quarter has gone?
It’s disappeared in the blink of an eye.
With Halloween, half term and Bonfire Night all firmly behind us, it’s now less than six weeks to go until the festive break.
Between the ‘before we finish for Christmas’ deadlines, client lunches and social events, and planning for the early part of 2026, not to mention everything there is to do and coordinate at home, the next few weeks can be super stressful so it pays to be super organised.
List making and a bit of daily structure go a long way to keeping calm, focussed and on top of things.
Here’s our top tips for staying in control:
✨ Prioritise like an absolute pro – at work and at home. Not all tasks are equally urgent, decide what needs to be done and by when and work through it in order. Not what you’d like to get done, but what HAS to be done, after that you can supplement with additional activity to get ahead.
✨ Focus on your skill set – there’s two of us, so we can divide and conquer, we each know our skill sets and can allocate work to our strengths for speed and efficiency.
✨ Eliminate noise and distractions in your working environment – now is not the time to multi-task, put your phone out of reach for an hour or so at a time and close out of emails to allow yourself to fully focus on the task at hand.
✨ Make a list – we are both lovers of a good old-fashioned list on paper along with the joy of crossing off. We usually have two lists, side-by-side, the work list and the home list, so that while we are winning on the work front and crossing tasks off, we don’t forget own clothes day, the teacher collection or the school carol concert.
✨ Break your day into chunks – we plan in time for deeper work, strategy and writing, and treat these like meetings, with time blocked off in the diary. Plan these in when it best suits your working style, tackle your hardest tasks first thing in the morning so that the day doesn’t run away with you, it always feels better when they are done.
✨ Don’t skip breaks – take time away from your desk to recharge and refresh, taking a walk in the fresh air at lunchtime resets the mind and makes for a more productive afternoon.
✨ Declutter your space – a tidy desk and an organised inbox make it easier to concentrate.
✨ And finally, switch off and rest – it might be tempting to work late into the evening but this doesn’t really set you up for success the following day when you’re often just too tired to be effective. Take it from us, we’ve been there 😊
