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Time Management Articles:
A nap a day keeps the cobwebs away.
Although I used to nap only occasionally, I now nap on most days. I nap for a half-hour in the early afternoon. Napping is good for the learning brain. It helps strengthen the brain’s connections formed while working on your tasks, whether they involve writing, study,...
Are you prepared to manage your time?
Preparation is critical before any activity, whether it is a pilot about to fly an airplane or a surgeon about to operate on a patient. In his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Done Right,” Atul Gawande tells how pilots flew a particular type of...
Keep pace with an aging population
Will you still be alive and active in 2050? At 88, the odds are against my being here, but if so, I'd only be 116 years old. And that's possible if Harvard Medical School aging researcher David Sinclair is right in suggesting that the first person to live to 150 has...
Do you have a work portfolio?
What do you do for a living? That's a question that is easily answered by most professionals, managers, tradespersons, and other workers. “I'm a financial planner, professional organizer, bank manager, accountant, lawyer, salesperson, bookkeeper, maintenance...
Make eye contact for better communication
In business, it's important to connect to others in the organization for mutual trust and cooperation to take place. And people usually assume they're liked if you make eye contact. Eye contact is a rapport-building gesture that boosts dopamine, a neurotransmitter...
Unproductive? Blame it on your brain.
It's difficult to think clearly while you are working physically, such as moving furniture or stacking chairs or running. And vice versa; it is difficult to exert much force moving furniture etc. while you are thinking about some project or planning a marketing...
Wherever you are, keep your mind with you.
In a typical work session, what percentage of time do you think you spend focused on the task at hand? Harvard psychologist Daniel T Gilbert, in one study, found that our minds are wandering 46% of the time. There are both positive and negative consequences to...
Don’t like your job? Reframe it.
If you are in a job that is pure drudgery or distasteful or stressful, you can reduce its negative impact on your mental health by reframing it. For example, tell yourself it is something you choose to do temporarily, until you get a better job elsewhere. Or imagine...
The importance of focus and self-control
You have probably heard this many times before. The brain cannot multitask; it operates sequentially and can only focus its attention on one thing at a time. You may think you are doing two things at the same time, such as reading this article while listening to a...