022 Design a Life to Thrive: Creating Portfolio Days

Humans thrive with variety - you feel this when you go to a new place, rearrange your furniture, change your route to work. These changes light you up, refresh your routine, offer a new perspective.  And, now, with us largely confined to our homes, this concept is more relevant than ever. Introducing change into each day can be a real tonic, and it’s something that’s helped me in my life recently, both before and during lockdown.  The concept of Portfolio Days is simple. Rather than seeing your day as a block - a neverending tide of Zoom calls, emails, social media responses - see it instead as a portfolio of hours that you slice up prioritising variety and values over churn or busyness. In this short episode, I’ll provide a simple set of tasks to help you work through the things in your life that are most important, and suggest ways you can incorporate each of these into your working day. We’ll look at how you can start to more closely link your daily activities with your own values, creating lasting change for the better.  It’s not about radical overhauls, but small bold changes that make a big difference. And it’s one that has made me feel more grounded and resilient.  I hope this helps you too.