At work and home, multiple thoughts vie for our attention. To be more effective and efficient, however, it helps to…
Casey’s eTip: Practice Presence
Being fully present in this moment means your attention and executive functioning are focused on the task at hand. You’ll complete that task more quickly, accurately and creatively as a result. Presence is productive. It combines doing and bein–and it takes practice. When you notice your mind wandering, roll with it without recrimination. It’s normal. Just return to your task again and again.
Don’t we sometimes need to think beyond the present? Yes. Planning and forecasting can be the useful. Worrying and endlessly speculating are not. Debriefing about a past experience in order to learn from it can be useful. Ruminating or replaying what happened over and over again is not. Practicing presence will help alert you when these unhelpful brain activities arise.
This eTip brought to you by the Drive link in your Productivity Chain.
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