by Harold Taylor | Jan 26, 2015 | Holistic Time Management
Routine tasks get forgotten making the past seem shorter Routines and habits make life seem shorter. A long period of time spent on the same or similar activities shortens our perception of this time years later. For instance, if we fish off the same dock with the...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 23, 2015 | Holistic Time Management
Applying Hertzberg’s hygiene theory to time management I got the idea of a hygiene theory of time management from Hertzberg’s hygiene theory of motivation. I always thought it was a great theory, and when I taught management theories and leadership at...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 21, 2015 | Holistic Time Management
Not being in the moment is bad for your overall wellbeing Are you mindful every day? Gretchen Rubin, in her book The Happiness Project, relates her experience of driving home with no recollection of going from point A to point B. She said she is sometimes terrified...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 19, 2015 | Holistic Time Management
Not feeling in control can cause stress and unhappiness People have a natural inclination to control events and make things happen. Losing control makes them unhappy and stressed. Stress can induce the release of cortisol, and excess cortisol impairs function in the...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 17, 2015 | Holistic Time Management, The Brain
Stay in the moment and actually experience your life If life seems to race by and much of your past seems to be missing, practice mindfulness to preserve those memories. Our sense of how fast time passes is a function of our memory. If we don’t remember something, it...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 7, 2015 | Holistic Time Management
Most people want to go to heaven, but not many of us want to die. In fact we want to know how to live longer. Ephraim P. Engleman, a still-active, 104-year-old rheumatologist, when interviewed for an article on aging in the January, 2015 issue of Reader’s Digest,...
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