![]() ![]() The Perth Medieval Fayre was held in March and you can read about it and tune in for next year's happenings on their Facebook page.īeginning with a Medieval Feast on the Friday night, the Carnivale features Medieval combat, music and dance, daily grand parades, stalls including food and wine tastings and crafts, potters, blacksmiths and the traditional Burning of the Dragon.įeaturing two days of jousting, swordsmanship, belly and highland dancing, archery displays, best medieval dressed competitions, kids activities, music and food. Kryal Castle offers medieval attractions and experiences daily as well as monthly Medieval Dinners. Features include a re-enactment of the Battle of Bannockburn, street parade, pipe bands, Highland dancing, Scottish bands, a medieval village, Scottish folk bands, roving entertainers, children's activities, market stalls and more. Turns out I’m consistently “in the zone” around 3pm in the afternoon so instead of trying to tackle highly creative work first thing in the morning (when my brain is barely functioning), I handle it in the afternoon, when I know I’m at my peak!Ĭreating more margin has been game-changing for my business.Image Celebrating 700 years of Scottish independence, during the week of 16-22 June, Bannockburn in Victoria will be the hosting a week of community activities culminating in the main festival event on Sunday 22 June 2014. It can even send you weekly reports so you know exactly how much time you wasted on Facebook, or spent in your email inbox! You can assign different websites or programs/applications on a scale of very distracting to very productive, so you can see at a glance things like: which days of the week you’re most productive, which times of the day you’re most productive, and the sites on which you’re spending the most distracting time. If you’re not sure how much time you are actually spending on various tasks, use a tool like Rescue Time (their free version is excellent!) which runs in the background and tracks where your time is being spent. Some of you have been doing this for ages and you’re already a pro, and some of you who saw my schedule said “woah, that’s so rigid, I need more flexibility!” Structure enables flexibility. When you design your ideal week, you start to see that the time you think you have is often not in alignment with how much time you actually have.Īfter designing my ideal week, I had a much clearer idea of how to create a framework for my week that would empower me to feel more focused by theming days of the week, and even parts of the day. Actually follow through on the things that have been nagging at you for a long time. Silent Lion as Four at Great Lakes Medieval Faire, 2014. The Minstrel Stage at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire. Update your contracts and proposals (which has been on your to-do list for how long.?) Spend more time with your family. Silent Lion as Four: John Saunders on Irish Bouzouki, Barbiel Matthews-Saunders, guitar and vocals, plus Michael Manderen on viola da gamba and Rio Blue on cajon. It takes time to build margin into your schedule.Write a book. ![]() I spent nearly a year turning down every new project (and even getting rid of old ones) so that I could reduce my workload, build in more margin, and create what is now Digital Strategy School. What if we left more room for growth (personal or professional) and stopped being one with “busy-ness”? ![]() What if instead of booking up to 100% capacity (which more often than not ends up being closer to 120%), we only booked up to an 80% capacity? At the time this seemed like a good thing: doesn’t growing my business mean getting more clients? A long redesign. I wasn’t really growing my business in a sustainable way I was just booking one client after the next. Last year I wrote about why booking too far in advance can be dangerous for your business, and this concept of margin so eloquently captures what I had recognized had been my problem: I was so booked up with clients that I wasn’t leaving any margin for error, growth, planning, or reflection. Margin is the gap between rest and exhaustion, the space between breathing freely and suffocating. ![]() It is something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations. It is the amount allowed beyond that which is needed. Margin is the space between our load and our limits. (who wrote the book: Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives) describes margin like this: I stumbled upon the concept of margin while reading a post by Michael Hyatt, which led me to design my ideal week. ![]()
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