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10 tips for time management in a multitasking world | Penelope Trunk Blog - 0 views

  • keystrokes
    • Emily Vargas
       
      What is a keystroke?
  • probably not answering incoming email while they’re doing it
    • Emily Vargas
       
      That is kind of contradicting. You need to check your email to know what else to do. If you are slow you are not being productive. You are putting everything off.
  • Time management is one of those skills no one teaches you in school but you have to learn.
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  • your ability to handle information and manage your time.
  • message needs more thought, move it to your to-do list.
  • Take action on an email as soon as you read it.
  • multitasking is deadly. But it decreases everyone’s productivity,
  • practicing mindfulness as a way to break the multitasking habit.
  • spends an hour on the most important thing on her to-do list.
  • much more likely to go back to it once you’ve gotten it started.
  • organize the night before
  • “People want a predictable response, not an immediate response.”
  • discover yours by monitoring your productivity over a period of time.
  • keep your best time free for your most important work.
  • break own my projects into chunks
  • actually responds to some things more slowly
  • planning one’s work are also mission-critical tasks.” 
  • Each person has a best time
    • anonymous
       
      If you work best at night, don't work in the morning, you won't be productive. I think this is a very important point. 
Savanna Canale

Meditation at Work - Project Meditation - 0 views

    • Savanna Canale
       
      Meditation companies are being hired to come into the businesses workplace to teach the employees how to meditate and be mindful. This has been proven to increase productivity. This lowers stress levels as well.
  • effort to lower stress levels and boost productivity
  • has been shown that less mistakes are made after meditation sessions. 
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  • less likelihood of injury and accidents.
  • number of sick days taken by staff also fell dramatically
  • benefits
  • lowering of blood pressure
  • strengthening of the immune system
  • There are many triggers to stress in the work place including meeting deadlines, dealing with customers and also colleagues,
  • cutbacks, job sharing
  • they are less anxious about promotions and other managerial issues and feel they can relate better to colleagues and feel more confident in themselves
  • greater capacity to deal with stress.
  • teaching the group how to focus on a single thought or icon and tune out to thoughts and problems,
  • There is no doubt that the more technology advances the more people will come under increasing levels of stress
Brian Walsh

Handbook for Life: 52 Tips for Happiness and Productivity | zen habits | Diigo - 0 views

    • Brian Walsh
       
      I find so much repetition within all these sources. Experiment, take your time, listen to others, look inside yourself. It seems like a straightforward concept now
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Routines are a great way to stay organized. More organization means more clarity and room to think
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Establishing a relationship is another way to improve your happiness level. And it can be with anybody and it doesn't need to be close and special like that of a girlfriend or wife
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    • Brian Walsh
       
      Using help from others goes away from practicing mindfulness and becoming self aware. It's a little ironic that sources saying to not take help from others are others themselves, and people reading the article are taking direct help from others
Robert Coady

7 Mindfulness Tips to Energize Your Writing | Write to Done - 0 views

    • Robert Coady
       
      This article, instead of setting up a rigid list of guidelines, allows for the trouble one can go through when writing, and encourages you to embrace what you can't control.
  • That’s right, almost paradoxically, a state of “no-mind” can produce excellent results in your life in terms of creativity and productivity.
  • deep breath
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  • getting a ‘feel’ for what you are writing, rather than merely analyzing the content.
  • Instead of demanding of yourself that your work meet a certain standard, ask yourself “what would I like to write if I could write anything in the world?”
  • Recognize that “If’s” have their purpose, but just ask yourself if you could let go of the particular “if” for just this moment.
  • The need for perfection
  • 1. Analysis paralysis
  • Being good enough
  • Letting your opinion of yourself shape the quality of your writing is something we all do but few of us realize
  • Motivation and rationalization (“I’ll do it tomorrow”)
  • Become mindful that you are withdrawing into yourself and ruminating, rather than expressing yourself externally. Notice when you begin thinking about a task rather than doing it and ask yourself “would I rather internalize and think right now to no end or would I rather be producing something real right now?” Use mindfulness to catch yourself and transform rumination into action on-the-spot.
    • kurt stavenhagen
       
      Appreciate this post Rob. I like this tie here between mindfulness and immediate mindful action.
  • Becoming mindful of the value you assign your writing involves setting aside time every day to write and treating it as almost a “sacred space.”
  • Quick tips for mindful writing
Paul Brahan

10 Ways to Eliminate Distractions - 0 views

    • Paul Brahan
       
      Article which gives tips to eliminating unwanted distractions in your life.
Emily Vargas

ZEN PENCILS - 123. ERICA GOLDSON: Graduation speech - 0 views

    • Emily Vargas
       
      He is not a worker, but he is a robot.
    • Emily Vargas
       
      He was successful because he did what he was told and worked to the best of his advantage.
Emily Vargas

Five Classic Ways to Boost Your Note-Taking - 0 views

  • Divide your page into two columns. The left one
  • You're going to jot larger ideas in this column:
  • In the right column, you're going to take down as much information as possible
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  • Some versions of the Cornell system leave the last few lines on each page for summarizing the whole page
  • cover the detailed notes on the right and just examine the main points and new vocab
  • have pictures and tables—it's not necessarily organized
  • But unless you try it, you'll never know if it works better for you.
  • Color-code with different pens, pencils, and highlighters.
  • Trying some new shorthand is a really geeky way to slightly tweak your engravings and get you amped about taking notes again.
  • It's mostly based around removing unimportant letters and making complex letters easier to write quickly.P
  • you might try translating just some of your most-frequently used words into a shorthand "language" that takes less time to writ
  • Record your lectures
Brian Walsh

The Zen of floating - The Week - 0 views

  • were frightened of contracting HIV from infected water in float-tank centers. The business dried up.
    • Rebecca Lurie
       
      Even when a product is doing great in sales, it can plummet because of a specific even that changes everyones view.
  • creativity in artists.
  • brain's focus from its dominant to its non-dominant hemisphere
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  • can improve
    • Paul Brahan
       
      Very interesting article about the benefits sensory deprivation chambers provide. 
  • The saturation of Epsom salts in the water made me unnaturally buoyant — my face, stomach, and knees an archipelago of islands amid the tub's ocean.
    • Brian Walsh
       
      So you go from bored, to anxiety, to peace?
  • For a tank newbie like me, the more intriguing aspects of floating include 1) its possibly imagined, Lilly-esque potential to reveal hidden layers of consciousness within, and 2) its proven capacity to chill people out. Suedfeld happily acknowledges point two. "Anything related to psychological stress," he says, "whether it's chronic tension headaches, insomnia, things with no known physical cause…after several floats, they really seem to improve."
    • Brian Walsh
       
      Are Epsom salts supposed to give a more relaxing feeling? Could it be the salts helping or just the actual floating?
  • There was no clear line between consciousness and unconsciousness. (I had no fear of drowning, as my buoyancy was such that it would be nearly impossible to roll over accidentally.)
Samuel Sirota

Phys Ed: How Exercise Fuels the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

    • Samuel Sirota
       
      brain with more fuel can sustain and direct movement longer
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    Fueling the Brain
Emily Vargas

Mindfulness - 0 views

    • Emily Vargas
       
      G. The way mindfulness directly relates to mental illness. R. Mindfulness, Meditation, Yoga, Mental Illness, Anxiety, Depression A. To watch videos about mindfulness. This is spoused to relate directly to therapist and how mindfulness helps in treating mental issues. B. To definitely use mindfulness as a technique in helping with mental illness
  • MBCT is recommended by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) for the prevention of relapse in recurrent depression
  • Mindfulness training helps us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, we're better able to manage them.
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  • the way we think and the way we handle how we feel plays a big part in mental health
  • People undertaking mindfulness training have shown
  • Mindfulness is a potentially life-changing way to alter our feelings in positive ways, and an ever-expanding body of evidence shows that it really works.
  • are ways of paying attention to the present moment, using techniques like meditation, breathing and yoga.
  • Mindfulness meditation has been shown to affect how the brain works and even its structure.
  • ncreased activity in the area of the brain associated with positive emotion – the pre-frontal cortex – which is generally less active in people who are depressed.
  • More than 100 studies have shown changes in brain wave activity during meditation and researchers have found that areas of the brain linked to emotional regulation are larger in people who have meditated regularly for five years.
  • recurrent depressionanxiety disorders addictive behaviour stress chronic pain chronic fatigue syndromeinsomniaplus more mental and physical problems.
  • Mindfulness in the workplace can improve productivity and decrease sickness absence, and increasingly employers are looking to benefit from its effect on workplace wellbeing.
  • Almost three-quarters of GPs think mindfulness meditation would be helpful for people with mental health problems, and a third already refer patients to MBCT on a regular basis.
Emily Vargas

Mindfulness: The Anxiety Cure You Ought to Know | Refine the Mind - 0 views

  • While washing dishes or sweeping, direct your attention to the rhythm of the action. Listen closely to the swishing or scratching noises, smell the soap suds, or concentrate on your contracting muscles.
    • Emily Vargas
       
      Connect this back the article from the first project
  • We don’t often notice, but our senses of touch, smell, sight, and sound are constantly at work.
  • quiet your mind
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  • . The goal of mindful practices is to force us to be present, so we don’t waste precious days worrying.
  • Like most skills, it must be developed and refined
  • Try to quiet your mind and focus on your sensations for even 10 or 15 seconds at a tim
  • while walking, cleaning, and showering.
  • Mindfulness: A Wonderful Anxiety Cure You Ought to Know
  •  irrational form of fear.
  • Mindfulness is a practice that allows you to be content and alive in the present moment.
  • Anxieties try to tell you that something bad might happen, that you might not be good enough, or that someone might be thinking poorly of you.
  • Anxiety stems from the evolutionary by-product of exaggerated fear
  • I’ve understood for years that anxiety is counterproductive, but knowing it is and actually stopping it from affecting me are two different things.
  • Mindfulness is nearly infallible for helping to alleviate stress and worry
  • Mindfulness is a conscientious activity. It is an effort to do the opposite of what our brains naturally do.
  • When performing a task, mindfulness means directing our entire focus to that one task. No multi-tasking. No daydreaming.
Paul Brahan

Call for papers - Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship - 1 views

    • Paul Brahan
       
      How mindfulness is used in entrepreneurial marketing.
Rebecca Lurie

Buyer Job Information | National Careers Service - 0 views

  • ability to recognise future trends.
  • need to be able to think about what people might want. You’ll also need excellent communication skills.
  • a clear understanding of the customers they are buying for, the prices they are willing to pay and the likely demand for products.
Yi Jin

Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 0 views

  • global food prices.
    • Tara Picudella
       
      hits people close to home
  • These companies don't simply exist in a world whose hungers they fulfill – they help create the boundaries of that worl
    • Tara Picudella
       
      is he switching the problem of his essay from global warming towards just blaming oil companies
    • Nikki Schmeling
       
      kinda seems like it. he just keeps criticizing the oil companies without offering anything else about global warming.
  • Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free. Nobody else gets that break – if you own a restaurant, you have to pay someone to cart away your trash, since piling it in the street would breed rats. But the fossil-fuel industry is different, and for sound historical reasons: Until a quarter-century ago, almost no one knew that CO2 was dangerous. But now that we understand that carbon is heating the planet and acidifying the oceans, its price becomes the central issue.
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  • Once, in recent corporate history, anger forced an industry to make basic changes. That was the campaign in the 1980s demanding divestment from companies doing business in South Africa. It rose first on college campuses and then spread to municipal and state governments; 155 campuses eventually divested, and by the end of the decade, more than 80 cities, 25 states and 19 counties had taken some form of binding economic action against companies connected to the apartheid regime. "The end of apartheid stands as one of the crowning accomplishments of the past century," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu put it, "but we would not have succeeded without the help of international pressure," especially from "the divestment movement of the 1980s."
  • engineering problem" that has "engineering solutions."
    • Nikki Schmeling
       
      what can engineers do about it that everyone else can't?
  • Kentucky farmers were reporting that corn kernels were "aborting" in record heat
    • Nikki Schmeling
       
      this sentence hits farmers, and then also everyone else.
    • Nikki Schmeling
       
      first this targets farmers, and then everyone else.
  • words – it's a greed problem.
    • Yi Jin
       
      This is relevant back to chief lyon's interview in which he mentions the greed of ceo's
  • hefty tax on coal and gas and oil, then simply divide up the proceeds, sending everyone in the country a check each month for their share of the added costs of carbon
  • a giant hurricane swamps Manhattan, a megadrought wipes out Midwest agriculture
    • Nikki Schmeling
       
      yeah this one hit home a little bit, the drought thing.
  • citizens might decide to regulate carbon and stop short of the brink; according to a recent poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans would back an international agreement that cut carbon emissions 90 percent by 2050.
  • have been loath to make the fossil-fuel industry their enemy, respecting its political power and hoping instead to convince these giants that they should turn away from coal, oil and gas and transform themselves more broadly into "energy companies."
  • If you put a price on carbon, through a direct tax or other methods, it would enlist markets in the fight against global warming. Once Exxon has to pay for the damage its carbon is doing to the atmosphere, the price of its products would rise. Consumers would get a strong signal to use less fossil fuel – every time they stopped at the pump, they'd be reminded that you don't need a semimilitary vehicle to go to the grocery store.
  • reduce the profitability of the fossil-fuel industry
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