Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

Get really inspired.

Seriously, 30 seconds!Back in the day when I was running the coffee shop I used to always say “Precious seconds, people.

Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

Precious seconds!” ..and they all thought I was crazy.Until they realized that I was brilliant.🙂 When you look at your day in 10 minute segments though, and assign each 10 minute segment a purpose, magical things will start to happen.

Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

And it’s absolutely OK if sometimes those 10 minutes are assigned to things like breaks and snacking.. Use a timer..Using a timer really helps to keep you on track.

Platform design and the future of construction, Built Environment Matters podcast with our Head of Global Systems, Jaimie Johnston MBE

makes you actually get started when you’ve made up your mind to hit “start”.

I used to use a chicken-shaped egg timer and I liked that the constant “tick tick tick” in the background kind of subconsciously let my brain know that it was “working time”.In fact, I think there are probably only 2 strings of 100 per tree, plus some patio lights for fun.

I really do love the look of letting the natural beauty of the real trees shine through though.I almost think I could not decorate them at all and I’d still love having them in the house.. All I did this year was put in a few berry picks to match the red berry wreaths I made a few weeks ago, and then I handed Kennedy the bag of red ornaments and said “this is the red tree”.. Nine year olds are the best!

(Look at the socks :)).We thought we would make the fake tree in the dining room a red tree too to match.