Refueling 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...