Your Executive Coach | Terez Rijkenberg

Forget a "pillow-day", everyone needs a "get-your-life-in-order" day! Also called a GYLIO day. Listen to find out what it is and how it can free up time, energy and thinking space for you to get more done on the work and life activities you most enjoy. Send a "fan mail" text message and let me know what you think of the podcast Support the show Want more? Connect on L...

Yes, it's easy to use our past success to fuel our future goals, but what about the "not-so-great" parts of our past? The failures? The recurring bad habits? The things you've tried that didn't work? You can use those too to get what you want now and in the future. Send a "fan mail" text message and let me know what you think of the podcast Support the show Want...

What gives you faster results for free? Listen to this episode to find out... Send a "fan mail" text message and let me know what you think of the podcast Support the show Want more? Connect on LinkedIn . Subscribe to my Weekly Newsletter → Leadership is Mental Visit the website for details on my Executive Coaching programme, Leadership Development offers and more. Email me for speaking...

There's something missing from your to-do list. Do you know what it is? Most people respond by saying "It didn't even occur to me to include this on my to-do list or calendar!" Listen to find out, including: What your brain needs to be consistently productive Why this to-do list task might be the remedy for burnout Send a "fan mail" text message and let me know what y...

Everything we want is just an experience of our time. Even the things we buy with money are just because we want to experience our time in a certain way. So what we need to learn to do is make decisions about how to invest our money and our time to buy more time or to experience our time in a way that serves us. In this episode you'll learn: Over 15 ways that you can "buy" more time...

I’m not sure if you’ve realised this but what most humans do is use their brain to make money to buy time. That’s what we do right? We spend the first 21+ years growing our brain to make as much money as possible so that we can get an extra 10 days off every year (more time) to spend on holiday. Or so that we have enough money in our retirement to enjoy our time when we’re old. Or we look to becom...

“There are no right decisions. There are only decisions that you choose to make right.” - Terez Rijkenberg What if I told you that all of the decisions that you have made up until this point in your life have been the right decisions? And if you believed me, what might be different for you? Specifically, in the way you show up to decisions from now on? Let’s play with that thought for a second - t...

Problems are such a problem, aren’t they? Just consider that problem you’re dealing with right now. Have you noticed yourself thinking about it non-stop? Your mind whirs and thinks and spirals and festers over it. And I’m guessing you consider solutions and think about the potential outcomes. But it just seems like there isn’t any one solution that brings certainty or comfort. And do you complain...

The reason why resolutions and goals and new habits fail has nothing to do with January. Let’s just clear that one up - it has nothing to do with the new year. January happens to be the time that people tend to commit to new goals. And whether you commit to these in January or in September my guess is that the averages of success towards those goals will be similar.  The reason why resolutions and...

If you think about it, seeking perfection is actually quite odd. Perfection is an entirely abstract construct because there is no evidence of it in the world we see and interact with daily. Sure, you might think something is "perfect" but that is also an opinion that someone else might disagree with.  And so true perfection doesn't exist and yet our brain is trying to look for it ev...

This is for you if you ever think: 💬 “I’m not adding enough value” 💬 "I'm not doing enough" 💬 "I don’t have enough time” 💬 “I’m not good enough to achieve this” 💬 "I don’t have enough experience" These thoughts will keep you feeling disappointed with yourself if you continue to think them. In this episode, we explore what enough really is and how you can move for...

Do you often feel out of control? Do you struggle with uncertainty? It's probably because you're not giving your time, attention and energy to the only 3 things that you can control. This means you'll probably feel frustrated and disempowered a lot of the time. When you are able to focus on just the 3 things that you can control, you'll realise that no matter the situation, you...

I used to believe that if you had a fool-proof well-thought-out strategy then you could have any success. I was so wrong. If anyone tells you that a specific strategy is guaranteed to work - I would recommend that you think a bit more about it before jumping in. And I’m not saying that it won’t work - but it might only be guaranteed to work not because of the strategy - but because of something el...

So you want to prioritise and focus on what’s most important - but the problem is everything seems important and, on top of that, everything is also urgent, am I right? The best thing to do is to stop using important and urgent as prioritisation criteria and to start using this framework that I discuss in this episode. The 4-step prioritisation framework will help you filter the next best task or...

Forget decision-making, RE-DECIDING is your new superpower. So often we get comfortable doing the things we've always done. But more than that, we get comfortable believing the things we've always believed - even if they no longer help us to get where we want to go.  So what's the antidote? To RE-DECIDE! Re-decide every day. Re-decide often. And even if something is great, works wel...

Focus! We all want more of it. But there are just so many distractions. What I find my clients doing often is trying to remove all of these distractions. However, that is literally impossible. Instead, I teach them how to build the skill of focus. In this episode you'll learn: How your brain creates distractions and what you can do about them The misconception we all have about focus The free...

Do you find it difficult to say "no"? Do you sometimes put off saying "no" because you think you might hurt someone's feelings? Or perhaps you don't say "no" to things because you think you'll have enough time to do it all (and then regret it later)? If this is you - listen to this episode - and then ask yourself the questions at the end of the episode...

I know you’re probably working towards your quarterly or bi-annual or annual goals, KPIs or OKRs. Whatever goal you’re working towards right now - I bet you have experienced some form of procrastination. The stats show that around 88% of people say they procrastinate for at least 1 hour every day. And more people struggle with procrastination than suffer from alcoholism, substance abuse and depres...

Very often we think about our goal in 1 stage/moment where we actually succeed. And yet our goal is so much more than that - in fact, it is the work and effort that precedes the attainment of it that makes up the most of our energy and effort that we expend.  Everything that precedes the achievement of the goal itself is the most important part because it is what actually allows us to achieve the...

How long do new habits really take? 21 days? Guess again. Research has shown that it takes on average much longer than that. But the real problem is impatience. We expect our new habits or change or activities that we are working on to be perfect immediately. We get impatient when we don't see results or evidence that things are working quickly. And when that happens we stop working on the ha...

 Where in your life and work do you often find yourself apologising? Being late? Missed deadlines? Poor communication? Apologising is important and can build trust and respect in certain situations. BUT… when you are constantly apologising for the same thing over and over again, it can have the opposite effect. Because continuing to apologise for the same type of event is meaningless when there is...

There is a word that we all use in our day-to-day lives that creates a lot of the overwhelming feelings we feel. When we say this word we feel powerless and out of control. And just by changing this 1 word, you will feel so much better about your day. And when you feel good you always produce better results. Do you need productivity coaching for you or your team? Then book a consult with me here:...

Want to know how to plan your week for maximum productivity? This is the Simple Planning Method for leaders who don't have time to waste on new apps or software. A large part of why we are so stressed at work is because we think that we aren't achieving enough. So we busy ourselves with lots of busy work that actually doesn't produce outcomes or results and then we feel exhausted an...

Why do we do things we don’t want to do during our working day? Why do we do things that take us away from what we actually want to be doing. For instance: Why do we try and multi-task when we know it’s not beneficial? Why do we check our emails every 11 minutes instead of focussing and completing what’s in front of us? Why do we say yes to tasks that aren’t aligned with our strategic focus areas?...

Yes, we can work better and yes we can work less. But the truth is many of us work too much. And many of us work too much, keeping ourselves very busy, AND without being as productive as we could be. But, if you want to know how to work better by working less, first we have to understand WHY we are working too much. Listen to the podcast to discover why you might be working too much. You'll l...