GOOD IDEAS FROM CAROL - 155

I’ve been doing these newsletters for three years and wondered whether to continue as they are or make some changes.? So it would be great if you could comment below about these options – which would you prefer?

1 Stay as it is; usually five business tips a week

2 Change to completely non-business tips

3 Have a mix of both

4 Something else – what would you like?

Look forward to your thoughts.?

In the meantime, here’s what a ‘mixed’ one could look like:?

GOOD IDEA1

Share recommendations for good suppliers with colleagues.?? We all have our favourites and there might also be some other interesting or better ones out there.? Why not share for mutual benefit?

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GOOD IDEA 2

If you have clothes with moth holes or tears , think about patches rather than darning, giving them away or throwing out.? In Japan, broken pottery is often repaired with gold (or sometimes silver or platinum).?? It’s called Kintsugy, or Kintsukoroi, and these repairs are treated as part of the object’s history rather than something to disguise.? The repaired objects are often seen as more precious than before and it's an extension of ‘wabi-sabi’, an eastern philosophy that finds beauty in the damaged or imperfect.? You can make your own patches, or buy interesting fabric shapes to sew or iron on – lots of choice to express your personality and give more life to your clothes.

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GOOD IDEA 3

Try local independent shops for veggies.? Our local Polish shop has superb ones – mostly from Poland.? Wonderful tomatoes in the summer – all kinds of varieties and flavours.? Just bought some kohlrabi which is lovely raw.? And they have small cucumbers which are great for pickling.? Do support something local and explore finds that your supermarket probably wouldn’t have.

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GOOD IDEA 4

Have a go at using coloured pens or pencils (I love Papermate Flair medium felt pens) for notes.? You may find it looks nicer than black and could even spark your creative side.?? See what you think.

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GOOD IDEA 5

Break down tasks into ‘micro-elements’.? That might be time (five minutes at a task rather than an hour), or it might be elements (take one aspect of a project rather than thinking of it as just the whole), or it might be activities (making a phone call, sending a text, replying to an email).? Sometimes, less is more; you could find you get further ahead by doing little ‘chunks’ than thinking about the whole, huge, thing.

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And please let me know what you’d like from future newsletters.

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