by Harold Taylor | Jun 21, 2016 | Technology, The Brain
According to Gayatri Devi, author of A Calm Brain (Plume, 2012), your core brain has the ability to quickly and accurately read and respond to the emotions of others. Your rational frontal lobes may be fooled by polite laughter or phony tears or any false display of...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 14, 2016 | General Time Management, The Brain
Whether we were made from clay by the hand of God or whether we evolved from single-celled organisms who somehow made themselves from clay long after a Big Bang, it does not change the reality of how our body, brain and mind currently interact. One thing seems...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 7, 2016 | General Time Management
You will never seem as busy doing real work. Mark Forster, in his book Do it tomorrow, points out that real work advances your business or job while busy work it is what you do to avoid real work. Real work includes things such as planning, goal setting, creative...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 2, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology, The Brain
Always check email in the morning. My apologies to Julie Morgenstern, for the contradiction to her excellent book’s title, “Never check email in the morning,” but I am now convinced this is not the best strategy. For years I have been telling people that checking...
by Harold Taylor | May 17, 2016 | Executive Function Skills, Holistic Time Management
It’s becoming more difficult to focus. Sustained attention is the capacity to focus on a task despite fatigue or boredom. If this brain-based executive skill is strong, you are able to maintain attention and are not easily distracted or side tracked. You are able to...
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