Tag: tips
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Finding the Joy in Anticipation Beyond All the Communication
A while back, I heard someone say that technology has brought about the end of anticipation. Before the internet, when we went to visit a family member or friend who lived far away from us, we had a lot to talk about and catch up on since the last time saw each other.
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Turning Off Your Work Mind
Do you find that it’s hard to turn your work mind off even after you stop working? Is the “end of the work day” concept foreign to you because you keep your nose so close the grindstone? Many of us find ourselves in this situation, particularly with smartphones, laptops, and mobile internet enabling us to…
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How to Prioritize Responding to Important Messages
Have you ever planned to respond to a particular message and then found yourself replying to new ones as they arrive? Of course you have. We’ve all done it.
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Turn Off Autoplay for Videos
Do you ever find yourself binge-watching on YouTube, Netflix, or any other site/app on which you view videos? It’s so easy to get lost in the content and then wonder where the time went. To minimize this issue, turn off autoplay so that when you’re done watching one video, the next one doesn’t start automatically.
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The Mind Can Also Follow the Body
As mindfulness in the West is picking up and taking off as a popular movement, I’m getting the feeling that many people are being introduced to it as a purely intellectual and mental practice. After all, the word mind is in mindfulness. However, there are ways to achieve a state of mindfulness that don’t…
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Responding, Not Reacting to Your Smartphone
Have you ever watched a tennis sequence in which a player serves and the receiver runs in reaction to the serve and then hits the ball back off balance? Throughout the exchange, the server stands firm and is seemingly dictating where and when the receiver moves. Do you ever feel like that with your…
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Tips for Mindful Task Management: Part 2
Here are some more ways to apply mindfulness to tackling the tasks on your to-do list.
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Tips for Mindful Task Management: Part 1
Today, I’ll provide some pointers for how to apply mindfulness to getting things done on your to-do list.
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6 Tasks We Should Recover From Daily – Part 2
Last week we talked about how and why we need to recover from tasks in our daily life and we covered, recovering from work and technology. I challenged you to take on both of these, did you try it? How did it go? Did you notice a difference in your stress or sleep? Today we’re…
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Addicted to Your Phone? Ask Yourself These 5 Questions When You Reach For Your Smartphone
You’re about to start cooking dinner when you have a question about the recipe… what can you substitute for tarragon? So you pull out your phone to type your question into Google. But what happens first? You see a new text message, notifications from 3 different apps… By the time you’ve finished checking everything out…
