Group items tagged

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

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

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.

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

can improve

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.

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."

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.)

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."