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As discussed yesterday, effectively managing external distractions is very important to attention management. What’s equally as important to improving your productivity with attention management is controlling internal distractions. You are actually the source of many demands, when your thoughts interrupt and distract you with curiosity about unanswered questions, thrill seeking/socializing/what-am-I-missing syndrome, incomplete tasks, commitments, responsibilities, [...]
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On an episode of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” my favorite technology journalist, Matt Richtel, discussed with Terry Gross the research study that concluded that people today consume almost three times as much information as the average person did in 1960. Think about it: You may have more than one voice mail or answering machine, more than [...]
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If you’re familiar with my work, you know that I believe that time management is an outdated concept and what matters more in the 21st century is attention management. Your ability to control your attention will be your greatest asset in the coming decades, but this is a skill like any other: if you don’t [...]
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In my last post, I discussed the points made in The Busy Trap article from the New York Times, which portrayed the “dark side” of busyness. The good news is that busyness due to ambition or drive does not have to produce the same results as busyness fueled by anxiety or dread. Based on my [...]
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How are you? Busy? I can relate. But there are two kinds of “busy.” Which one are you? There was a recent New York Times essay (The Busy Trap) about people who are anxious and unhappy because of the demands on their time. It describes people who seem overscheduled and overwhelmed, who are unavailable to [...]
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Three out of four workers surveyed worldwide agreed with this statement: ”I find myself becoming more stressed when everything is a mess and I can’t find important documents when needed.” Below are some tips to help improve your productivity by considering the space you work in. If the statement above describes you, you may be [...]
Continue reading...Check out this two minute video that explains why training from RegainYourTime.com is based on the concept that time management is an outdated idea, and that regaining control over your attention is the skill you need to manage the details of your life and work with less stress in the 21st century. Click here or [...]
Continue reading...I was very excited to speak with Keri Bellacosa on Good Day Austin on the local Fox station this morning! In the segment which was almost five minutes long, we managed to get in a discussion of why time management and information overload are outdated terms, and how to regain control over your email inbox. [...]
Continue reading...(A version of this article was recently published in the Austin Business Journal. Below I’ll cover some of the high points of that piece.) Think you don’t have time to take a vacation? Think you can’t afford it? Think again. Recent studies make a convincing argument that you can’t afford not to take a vacation. [...]
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The recent article in the New York Times, “The Workplace Benefits of Being Out of Touch” was thought provoking. I realized that the behavior described in the article is based on two large assumptions. First, the article didn’t specify how one would know if they were “expected” to be available all the time. People often [...]
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