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Time Management Articles:
How are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions?
How many of you have made New Year’s resolutions, but have given up already? How many of you had made New Year’s resolutions but never even got started? How many of you never even bothered making New Year’s resolutions this year? Of the three groups, I believe the...
Patient people show improved performance.
It has been said that patience is a virtue. This certainly holds true in practice. It is even truer in this fast-paced society where “rushaholics” are in the majority and companies seem to believe that faster is better. Although patience is sometimes mistaken for...
Energy control can facilitate habit formation.
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...
Routines and habits consume less brain energy.
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,...
Conserving mental energy aids self-control
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...
Stress is the enemy of self-control.
In the last three articles I have discussed creating an environment that supports self-control and strategies such as pacing yourself, managing energy, adequate sleep, regular exercise, and balanced work scheduling. But if you want to develop self-control and maintain...
Pace yourself for improved performance.
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...
How to strengthen your self-control.
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....
Self-control: the key to successful 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...