Tag: communication
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Taking Control of Notifications to Take Back Your Attention
Receiving a reminder of an upcoming meeting or task from our smartphones can be a great way to remember to be somewhere to get something done on time. All too often, however, our smartphones beep, flash, and vibrate at us every few minutes to provide us with information we don’t really need. And…
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A Technological Trick for Avoiding Mindless Meetings
A good meeting can energize people, refocus a team, and strengthen interpersonal connections. A bad meeting can suck the energy out of a room and leave everyone feeling frustrated and exhausted. No wonder that corporate meetings are the bane of office workers and are an endless source of humor for comedians and sitcom…
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Technological Distractions are a Bug, Not a Feature
I can’t count how many times I have heard the following responses to a complaint about how technology can distract us: “You can’t turn back the clock.” “If you find it distracting, just turn it off.” “It’s the price we pay for the benefits of technology.”
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6 Ways Mindfulness Can Change Us
If there’s one thing that I could confidently say can impact every single aspect of our lives (work, health, relationships, etc.) its mindfulness, but in our crazy lives mindfulness can be lost. Being more mindful can affect multiple aspects of our lives. Whatever you’re putting your energy into doing right now could be affected,…
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Learn to Practice Mindfulness at Work
Do you ever feel aimless and unfocused at work? Do you leave the office at the end of the day feeling like you got nothing accomplished? If so, you are not alone. New research shows that people spend almost 47 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. In other…
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What’s Worthy of Your Time?
In two of our recent blogs we talked about distraction and the theories behind why we as a society are so distracted—the two oldest theories, and one new theory—but how can we combat distraction?
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The Third Theory of Distraction: Is There a Solution?
In our previous post Two Theories of Distraction: Is it Becoming a Bigger Issue?, we talked about the two oldest and biggest theories of distraction: spiritual and material distraction. But there’s a new theory of distraction that’s been brought to light by Matthew Crawford in his new book The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an…
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Two Theories of Distraction: Is it Becoming a Bigger Issue?
Distraction, it’s something that happens to all of us in today’s modern society. It can be enjoyable at times (scrolling though Facebook while waiting for a flight), but it can also lead to some terrible situations (scrolling though Facebook while driving).
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A Sneaky Way to Eliminate Technological Distractions at the Dinner Table
Have you ever sat down with your family for dinner, only to be faced with the glare of smartphones from everyone at the table? If so, then Dolmio Australia claims to have a technological solution to the problem:
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Smiling Practice at a Legal Conference
My experiment in smiling at an international legal conference.
