by Harold Taylor | Feb 5, 2020 | General Time Management
There are many ways you can conserve energy when forming habits so that you don’t deplete your resource of energy needed to maintain self-control. And as we mentioned in past articles in this series, habits themselves, once formed, conserve energy. Piggyback a new...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 31, 2020 | General Time Management
Building routines and forming habits are easy, because our brains love to conserve energy. Forming the right habits – those that are more conducive to health, productivity and general well-being – is more difficult. We are forming habits all the time, unconsciously,...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 21, 2020 | Executive Function Skills, General Time Management
In one of the past articles on self-control titled “Pace yourself for improved performance,” I explained how energy-depleting mental tasks such as decision-making and multitasking make self-control even more difficult. This is due to the belief that we have a limited...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 5, 2020 | General Time Management, The Brain
If you want to strengthen your self-control or any of the executive skills mentioned in previous blogs, you will have to pace yourself. Too much exertion, fatigue and information overload tend to weaken the executive skills and leaves you more susceptible to...
by Harold Taylor | Dec 26, 2019 | General Time Management
As I indicated in my last blog article “Self-control: the key to successful time management,” self-control is a prerequisite for the successful management of time. Other strategies are of little avail if you don’t have the self-discipline to put them into practice....
by Harold Taylor | Dec 19, 2019 | General Time Management
Self-control is not just another way of managing your time well. It is foundational to all other time management strategies. Without self-control, you will not be able to plan effectively, achieve goals, resist interruptions, focus on priorities, say no when...
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