by Harold Taylor | Sep 27, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology
Put your digital “To do” list in writing. By minimum effort, I don’t mean you should not concentrate fully on the task at hand; but rather that you should complete the task with a minimum expenditure of energy. Being disorganized consumes energy, multitasking consumes...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 23, 2016 | Holistic Time Management, Technology, The Brain
Many of us have allowed the demands of technology to bypass our minds and go directly to our core brains. Your core brain doesn’t think on its own: it simply reacts according to past programming, even answering the smart phone when it rings, responding immediately to...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 16, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology, The Brain
For some people an office is still a physical place of work such as a fully equipped room, a cubicle or a desk in a fixed location. But for more and more people, the office is their digital handheld device, which goes with them wherever they go. They feel it’s no...
by Harold Taylor | Jul 19, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology
There are obvious signs that smart phones are being used in excess. For instance, as reported in the June, 2016 issue of Mindful magazine, a one-ton, 20 foot sculpture outside Salisbury Cathedral had to be moved because too many people walked into it while staring at...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 21, 2016 | Technology, The Brain
According to Gayatri Devi, author of A Calm Brain (Plume, 2012), your core brain has the ability to quickly and accurately read and respond to the emotions of others. Your rational frontal lobes may be fooled by polite laughter or phony tears or any false display of...
by Harold Taylor | Jun 2, 2016 | General Time Management, Technology, The Brain
Always check email in the morning. My apologies to Julie Morgenstern, for the contradiction to her excellent book’s title, “Never check email in the morning,” but I am now convinced this is not the best strategy. For years I have been telling people that checking...
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