Abigail Ireland - Peak Performance Even When Working From Home
05/16/22 • 34 min
Abigail Ireland specialises in enabling high-achieving individuals and businesses to take performance to the next level - yet do so with more energy, more focus and less stress.
Abigail has coached, trained and advised leaders, individuals and teams across Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. She has worked with clients in all sectors, from banking, finance and professional services through to technology, luxury goods and healthcare.
By taking an integrated approach - incorporating Mind, Body and Business factors - Abigail provides the strategies and structures to build high-performance habits. Her proprietary peak performance programme is designed to provide everything you need to function at best. Her work is based on a comprehensive blend of science, research, psychology, experience and continuous testing.
What we discuss with Abigail Ireland
- How your brain gets confused when working from home and what to do about it
- The simpler and more effective alternative to to-do lists
- Companies that burn out employees because they can just replace them
- One of the biggest downsides to working for yourself
- The benefit of using different locations for different types of work
- One of the biggest reasons people say they are not as productive, that is actually within their control to do something about
- And much more...
Links relating to this episode
- Abi's website: https://abigailireland.com/
- Abi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailireland/
- Follow Abi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ireland_abi
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho: https://amzn.to/3lbkXYH
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
- Connect with Scott on social media: https://linktr.ee/scottfulton
- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
Leave a review
- Please leave a review (written if possible) on your podcast app of choice
How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
Abigail Ireland specialises in enabling high-achieving individuals and businesses to take performance to the next level - yet do so with more energy, more focus and less stress.
Abigail has coached, trained and advised leaders, individuals and teams across Europe, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. She has worked with clients in all sectors, from banking, finance and professional services through to technology, luxury goods and healthcare.
By taking an integrated approach - incorporating Mind, Body and Business factors - Abigail provides the strategies and structures to build high-performance habits. Her proprietary peak performance programme is designed to provide everything you need to function at best. Her work is based on a comprehensive blend of science, research, psychology, experience and continuous testing.
What we discuss with Abigail Ireland
- How your brain gets confused when working from home and what to do about it
- The simpler and more effective alternative to to-do lists
- Companies that burn out employees because they can just replace them
- One of the biggest downsides to working for yourself
- The benefit of using different locations for different types of work
- One of the biggest reasons people say they are not as productive, that is actually within their control to do something about
- And much more...
Links relating to this episode
- Abi's website: https://abigailireland.com/
- Abi on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abigailireland/
- Follow Abi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ireland_abi
- The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho: https://amzn.to/3lbkXYH
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
- Connect with Scott on social media: https://linktr.ee/scottfulton
- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
Leave a review
- Please leave a review (written if possible) on your podcast app of choice
How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
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Allan Kelly @allankellynet BSc, MBA is a conference keynote speaker and author of: Succeeding with OKRs in Agile (LeanPub, 2021), The Art of Agile Project Management (Apress, 2019), Xanpan: Team centric agile software development (LeanPub, 2015) and Business Patterns for Software Developers (Wiley, 2012.)
He advises, trains and coaches teams, and leaders, on using agile and OKRs to improve the way work is organised. Allan pays special attention to team structure and "product owners" including product managers and business analysts.
What we discuss with Allan Kelly
- Allan's secret weapon against being told by your boss everything has the same priority
- The importance of continuous learning and improvement personally and in business
- How the only thing you can do wrong in work is to stay fixed
- What goal displacement is, why it's bad, and why it is so prevalent in business
- How the opposite of agile is static
- Allan's much better solution for the traditional organisation chart that involves the solar system
- The important difference between employee empowerment and devolved authority and why the latter is much better
- And much more...
Links relating to this episode
- Allan's LinkedIn post discussing agile vs Static: https://bit.ly/3wxIB7l
- Allan's article on the agile vs static viewpoint: https://www.allankelly.net/archives/6432/the-only-thing-you-can-do-wrong-and-the-opposite-of-agile/
- All of Allan's books: https://amzn.to/3LVsc2Z
- Allan's Website: https://www.allankelly.net/
- Allan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allankellynet/
- Follow Allan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/allankellynet
- Arie De Geus: The Living Company https://amzn.to/3FxnTbB
- Andrew Grove: Only the Paranoid Survive: https://amzn.to/3FrW9VF
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
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Leave a review
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How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
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David Brackin - Battling Your Work To-do List Like a Horde of the Undead
David Brackin - @drbrackin - is a leading entrepreneur in the circular economy. As founder of Stuff U Sell, the eBay selling assistant and managing director of ReThread, the circular fashion marketplace, he deals with thousands of items of unwanted goods and clothing for people and businesses across the UK. After studying mathematics at Cambridge and spending several years at McKinsey, David has spent most of his career working in and around small businesses, including his own, and he believes that small businesses often reveal the truths about work that can be hidden in larger organisations. Outside of work he chairs his local council and runs a club for improving driving skills and an educational charity.
What we discuss with David Brackin
- Zombie jobs, how your to-do list comes after you like the undead
- David's experience running the biggest eBay trading system in the UK
- How talent in his generation has been wasted
- Putting off doing work just in case it's not needed, and how that can backfire
- How he prefers to work when it's dark and why
- How losing his mother at a young age impacted his view on life
- How to-do lists are rarely to-do lists at all
- And much more...
Links relating to this episode
- Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drbrackin
- David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbrackin/
- Stuff U Sell: https://www.stuffusell.co.uk/
- Tim Urban, Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: https://amzn.to/3wKdUvs
Keep in touch with the show
- Leave Scott a voicemail and possibly get featured on the show: https://www.speakpipe.com/rebeldiariesvoicemail
- Connect with Scott on social media: https://linktr.ee/scottfulton
- Podcast website: https://www.rebeldiaries.net
Leave a review
- Please leave a review (written if possible) on your podcast app of choice
How Scott can help you and your business
- Scott's website for High Performance Training and Coaching: https://www.scottfulton.co.uk
- Digital Rebels - Digital Development and Consulting: https://www.digitalrebels.co.uk
Additional resources (Purchasing using the links below helps support the running of the show)
Rebel Diaries - Abigail Ireland - Peak Performance Even When Working From Home
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Intro teaser
[00:00:29] Abi: Your brain's getting confused going, "is this the place where I sleep? am I going into wind down mode? because as soon as I sit down on the sofa, that's relaxation time, or are you telling me because I've got the laptop that I need to get in to get up and get focused?"
[00:00:41] Abi: We're still in a situation where people seem to be running around all the time. Never having enough time, burning out, not
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