Productivity Training, Time Management Training, Attention Management, Book a Speaker
There’s no getting around it: your level of physical activity (or inactivity) has a profound effect on how well your brain works. My favorite book on this topic is Spark, by ground-breaking attention researcher Dr. John Ratey. Like nutrition, exercise is often not considered as a way to improve productivity, but when your productivity depends [...]
It’s easy to forget the effect that nutrition and exercise can have on our ability to be productive and achieve our significant results. If you find yourself easily distracted and have difficulty focusing, it could mean that your body is deficient in a vital nutrient. The 4th way to improve your productivity with attention management [...]
Meditation is perhaps the one skill more essential to learn than any other if you are serious about controlling your attention. Meditation is quite literally the practice of focusing your attention internally, such as on your breathing, recognizing when your mind wanders, and bringing it back to the task at hand. For more information on [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
If you’re familiar with my work, you know that I believe that time management is an outdated concept and what matters more in the 21st century is attention management.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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]