Posts Tagged ‘break’

When A Cuppa Will Do You Good: Brief Breaks & Productivity

There are points when the only thing you can do — despite desperately wanting to be productive — is to step back for a few minutes. And while conventional productivity wisdom seems to dictate that you should use those few minutes to get a small task done or get a bit ahead on a future project, there are often situations when the best thing you can do is to sit… Continue reading

May 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: break, Productivity, rest, tea | 5 comments»

Eliminate Negative Payoffs

Most people have negative habits they are holding on to. Smoking, procrastination, Freddy Prinze Jnr movies; how do we quit?Dr. Sharon House indicates the problem isn't battling your, maybe, weak will, but rather that you're not identifying the habit's payoffs.These negative payoffs are really what keep you involved in the habit. The key, explains House, is knowing what the payoffs are and why you still want them… Continue reading

May 31 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: break, habit, habits | no comments»

Break Bad Habits by Substituting Good Ones

John Wesley from PickTheBrain.com wrote an interesting article for ZenHabits based on a simple idea.If you have a bad habit you want to break, instead of just taking that part of your life away, leaving an 'empty' space, you could substitute it with a good habit.It's a two step process that first requires you to realize a bad habit and want to stop it, and then find a… Continue reading

April 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: break, habit, habits | 2 comments»

Ask the group: Occasionally Slacking is the key towards Productivity?

Deborah Perelman at eWeek tells us this may be true because you never could step through 8 hours of work without taking any break. She argues that finding the balance, she calls it Slacker-Worker Equilibrium, will allow us to do work more efficiently.Some managers disagree on this. They expect employees to work through the office hours. If they see employees sending IM messages to their friends, they freak out… Continue reading

February 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: break, Productivity, slack | 3 comments»