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Interruption Management

Interruption Management

In order to have more attention, it’s important to set the terms of engagement with your devices.

Disruptions erode your impulse control, and interruptions make anything you do seem more difficult and aggravating than it is. Humans are allowed to set the rules on the devices.

The impulse control mechanism is located in a part of the executive attention function of the brain called effortful control. Interruptions shred it and make us self-distract and lose the ability to regulate impulsivity and stay on task. Managing interruptions, then, is key.

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Barking Management

Barking Management

Another boundary your brain needs is the ability to let things go in order to return to work. This is called “barking” management.

Does your dog bark hours, days, months, or years after another dog walks past your yard? He drops the event as soon as it’s over like it never happened. But tha...

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Refueling Management

Refueling Management

We are not hard drives with hair.

After two hours of time on task, the brain has to get off task to relieve strain and reboot.

The brain needs daily, weekend, and vacation resets. Robinson says productivity goes up after 10-minute breaks, 20-minute breaks, and dramatically after a vac...

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Reactive Work Style

Reactive Work Style

Ever wonder where the day went? It’s not uncommon to reach the late afternoon and marvel at why you didn’t gain more traction on your to-do list. That’s because the workstyle most of us use is reactive.

Many of us are feeling overwhelmed, and remote working arrangements aren’t necessarily h...

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Thought Labelling

Thought Labelling

We’re very verbal creatures, and a lot of words are flowing through our brains. They attach themselves in a random way. They fuse with thoughts, feelings, emotions, and moods in our brain and come out in the form of a thought.

For example, if you have a confrontation with someone at work an...

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More Work Is Stressful, Biologically

More Work Is Stressful, Biologically

We have a hangover from our ancestors that doesn’t really work in the modern world. Anytime your ‘ancient’ brain perceives that something is more than you can handle, it sees it as a threat and triggers the stress response. Stress today is social stress, but it still sets off the automatic respon...

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The Working Memory Is Always Stressed

The Working Memory Is Always Stressed

Unfortunately, interruptions blow up working memory. We have the rise of what’s called ‘attention deficit trait. It’s not ADHD, but it mimics the same symptoms. Your attention span shrinks, you have a hard time staying on task, you flit from one thing to the next, and you have more time urgency b...

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Focus On Your Breath

Focus On Your Breath

Exercise is a good stress reducer because it brings your brain back to the centre. Or focus on your breath. It massively increases your attention.

Deliberative breathing shuts down the acceleration of the stress response. It’s strongest in the immediate few minutes after the button gets pu...

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Attention Management

Attention Management

Part of your brain is always asking, “What’s wrong?” “How am I going to make it? “What’s next?” Self-inflicted stress is the frenzy and frazzles to get to the next item on the list.

To get anything done during the workday with focused attention, you need to tap into your working memory. The...

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