by Harold Taylor | Jun 28, 2016 | General Time Management, The Brain
Our brain prefers to work on brief projects as opposed to longer ones; battles are invigorating; but wars are exhausting. Chunking and batching make longer tasks more doable. David J Levitin, author of The organized mind, says that “working in chunks gives a...
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 | 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 | Feb 22, 2016 | General Time Management
What does a day’s work consist of? A weakness of all planning calendars, whether hard copy or electronic, is that they allow you to schedule and list more work than you can possibly get done in a week. We probably all know that we should not attempt more than a...
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