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How to set up an office at home
As governments either encouraged or ordered people to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly of working from home for the first time. The “good” included the elimination of commute time, savings on gas...
The power of reading
People who read actually live longer I read an article on the power reading in the October 2017 issue of Reader’s Digest. It mentioned that in 2016, Yale researchers collected data from 3600 men and women over fifty, discovering that people who read books for thirty...
The cost of a website
A website is an integral part of any business When I ask people why they don’t have a website, the most frequent answers are the cost of setting one up, or the time it would take to set it up and maintain it, with a few saying they don’t think they need it or saying...
An easy way to set goals
If you want an easy way to set goals stop thinking of it as some structured process that takes a lot of work. It doesn’t have to be any more structured than keeping a “To Do” list. And you don’t have to be afraid of losing the spontaneity and flexibility of simply...
Taking control of a situation nullifies the stress
If you work in a stressful environment, chronic stress can affect more than your health. It can reduce your performance, weaken your willpower, curtail your memory, impede good decision-making, interfere with sleep, and lead to burnout. Most managers recognize stress...
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...