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 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 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...
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