by Harold Taylor | May 10, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Listen to what your brain is telling you. Strong friendships give both your physical and mental health a boost. The February, 2014 issue of Scientific American Mind reported on a quantitative review of numerous studies, concluding that having few friends is the...
by Harold Taylor | Apr 26, 2016 | Executive Function Skills, Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Creativity in action. My habit over the past twenty years or more was to go for a walk in the morning with my writing tools tucked inside a computer bag, thinking along the way about the article I was to write that morning. When I reached my destination – a coffee...
by Harold Taylor | Apr 19, 2016 | Executive Function Skills, General Time Management, The Brain
Develop goal-directed persistence. The brain develops gradually, and continues to build neural connections throughout our lifetime. A person’s “executive skills” take from 18 to 20 years to develop. The executive skills are mainly located in the prefrontal cortex,...
by Harold Taylor | Apr 12, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Avoiding perfectionism. Perfectionism is said to be the desire and the self-imposed expectation to achieve the highest level of performance. So for some people, nothing less than perfect is acceptable. But perfect cannot really be defined; because most things can...
by Harold Taylor | Apr 5, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Developing willpower There are different theories on willpower. Originally it was thought that willpower was like a muscle that was easily depleted. And research backed this up. But newer research also suggests we have as much willpower as we expect we have. If you...
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