The Time Clinic

06/03/2024

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

Seth Godin, Poke the Box

22/02/2024

25/12/2023

"Einstein was able to become an insanely productive monomaniac because he sacrificed his relationships.

The point is: For every successful genius, there are broken relationships we rarely hear about. So before reading the next article on Einstein’s, Musk’s, or Darwin’s productivity routines, ask yourself:

Do I see the full picture or only produvtivity's shiny side?"

https://learntrepreneurs.com/meaningful-work-productivity-digital-minimalism-time-management/albert-einstein-was-a-genius-but-a-terrible-husband/

17/11/2023

Friday humour. There's always truth in comedy though. Procrastinators, contrary to popular belief, are very busy people! The more work we can create to avoid the things we are avoiding, the "less guilty" we can tell ourselves we need to be feeling as a result because of our busyness!

09/11/2023

Deploy your energy and resources wisely.

19/08/2023

https://natematias.medium.com/slowing-down-to-make-your-team-more-efficient-dawna-ballard-on-coordinating-child-advocacy-70f7434784aa

In a crisis, we wrongly think that talk is cheap and action matters most. By improving coordination, slowing down can speed us up.

07/08/2023

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/06/harvard-psychologist-if-you-use-any-of-these-phrases-you-are-more-emotionally-resilient-than-most.html

Very few of us are able to quickly adapt to stressful situations. Harvard psychologist Dr. Courtney Warren shares the powerful phrases that the most emotionally resilient people say every day.

03/08/2023

https://www.skillsclinic.co.za/2023/08/02/what-every-organisation-can-do-to-maximize-roi-on-training/

 What every organisation can do to maximize ROI on Training 0 Organisations investing in training often experience disillusionment when the returns on investment don’t seem to be realised. Over our years engaging all levels of entities from blue chip corporates to smaller businesses, we’d like ...

05/07/2022

"In her book, Good Habits Bad Habits, Wendy Wood argues than humans have much less self-control than they think. Motivational gurus make it sound like everything is a matter of conscious willpower, but the truth is that most decisions are made out of unconscious habit, and most habits are formed simply from being put in a certain environment.

That doesn’t mean we don’t have choice. It means that environment is queen: who and what we choose to surround ourselves with will ultimately determine our lives.

Call it the Whole-Plate Principle: You are more likely to finish the contents of your plate, regardless of serving size, than you are to choose to stop eating halfway. So if you’re trying to cut calories, it makes sense to give yourself a smaller portion, rather than depend on pushing your plate away while there’s still food on it.

I know a South African bodybuilder who asks servers at restaurants to box up half his meal before it ever reaches his table. That way, he never has a chance to get used to unhealthy American portions.

This principle works for developing positive habits too. If you’re trying to finish a book you’re writing, just open up the document every day and read what you’ve written. Eventually, your mind will get involved and find the ending. If you’re stuck writing a song, just keep playing what you have over and over. Eventually, your ear will hear what’s missing. If you want to be more like the people you admire, make sure to spend quality time with them.

In other words: just make contact. Don’t try to “figure it out” — that usually means thinking instead of doing. Just put yourself in the right environments. Set up your bedroom so you can reach for what’s most important to you as soon as you wake. Set up the hours of your days that way too.

You don’t have to keep struggling on your own. Let your environment support you. As the Zen master Dogen said: “If you walk in the rain, you’re going to get wet.”

“Whatever you think is keeping you from doing your life's work is your life's work. Every distraction, anxiety, or doubt that keeps you from learning some deeper lesson is itself the deeper lesson.”

10/04/2022

There's so many distractions at night time, but ultimately our health is suffering. Rather get to bed earlier and get up earlier for better health and better quality of life!

A new survey suggests that people who get excellent sleep go to bed by 9:39 p.m., sleep with some light on, and keep their room silent.

31/01/2022

Grow a new habit - or new neural pathway - in 28 days!