Decades ago, we used to take coffee breaks to escape, if only momentarily, from the stress of continually focusing on one task after another – with few distractions or variety in tasks to provide any mental relief. Today, we need “work breaks” to escape the incessant and cognitively demanding interruptions exacerbated by handheld electronic […]
Money certainly can buy happiness – if you are willing to part with the money! In fact a recent study reported in the July 25, 2017 issue of Science & Environment revealed that using money to free up time is linked to increased happiness. According to the news item by Helen Briggs, BBC News, psychologists […]
“Worldview” is a term that Seth Godin uses in his book, “All marketers tell stories,” to refer to a consumer’s rules, values, beliefs and biases. Something is true in the mind of an individual because the person believes it’s true. That is the basis of a placebo. It works because you really believe it will […]
The Pareto Principle, named after an Italian economist-sociologist, Alfredo Pareto, states that the significant items in a given group normally constitute a relatively small portion of the total items in the group. The ratio that holds true in most cases is 80:20. For example, 20 percent of the promotion techniques you use achieve 80 percent […]
Myth #6. The biggest time wasters are interruptions, which include email, meetings and rush jobs. I call that a myth because none of those are really time wasters – not if you follow my definition of a time waster, which is an activity, within our control, that does not contribute to either our personal or […]
Myth # 1. We can manage time. The biggest myth is that we can manage time. We cannot influence time one iota. Time is managed perfectly by itself. We can only manage ourselves in the time we have available. We are given 1440 minutes each day to use as we please. We can’t change that […]
Getting rid of the clutter. The logical place to start when you decide to limit the stuff in your home is at the source – shopping. If you have a broken water pipe, you don’t start by mopping the floor, you turn off the water. You can resist those needless trips to the mall and […]
Organization aids peace of mind, creativity, and attention as well as time effectiveness. Disorganization, on the other hand, causes stress, fractured thinking and wasted time. It could even contribute to obesity. For example, a Psychology Today article posted on May 17, 2017 mentioned a study showing that people will eat more cookies and snacks if […]
Some people go swimming an inch at a time. They stick a toe into the water and shocked by the temperature, commence to first immerse a foot then a leg, and gradually the torso. It’s an agonizing process. Each step into deeper water brings another cold shock to the warm body. Eventually they are totally […]
Gone are the days when retirement meant being put out to pasture to spend your final days in a rocking chair on the front verandah. Retirement today usually means the start of a second career, whether that be starting a business or tearing up the golf courses. People are beginning to recognize that 65 or […]
