You can do anything? - but not everything! ? !
You know the drill. It's Monday morning. You arrive at work exhausted from a weekend spent entertaining the kids, paying bills, and running errands.
You flick on your PC -- and 70 new emails greet you.
Your phone's voice-mail light is already blinking, and before you can make it stop, another call comes in. With each ring, with each colleague who drops by your office uninvited, comes a new demand -- for attention, for a reaction, for a decision, for your time. By noon, when you take 10 minutes to gulp down a sandwich at your desk, you already feel overworked, overcommitted -- overwhelmed.
Unchecked, this frantic approach is a recipe for dissatisfaction and despair -- all-too-common emotions these days for far too many of us.
We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive.
Your sense of 'responsibility' is a function of your response ability.
I learned that in karate. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. I learned that in karate. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. The power of a karate punch comes from speed, not muscle. And a tense muscle is a slow muscle. In other words, you can't do things faster until you learn how to slow down.
But how do you slow down? ! ?
It's all about the dynamic of detachment. Look at the best martial artists. They move very slowly. The faster you type, the slower it will feel to you, because you surf with your thinking. The same thing applies to reading: The faster you read, the more time will disappear, because you'll be able to feed stuff to your brain as fast as your brain can process it. That's why speed readers have better comprehension. They've trained their eyes to recognize stuff as fast as their brain can handle it.
You know the drill. It's Monday morning. You arrive at work exhausted from a weekend spent entertaining the kids, paying bills, and running errands.
You flick on your PC -- and 70 new emails greet you.
Your phone's voice-mail light is already blinking, and before you can make it stop, another call comes in. With each ring, with each colleague who drops by your office uninvited, comes a new demand -- for attention, for a reaction, for a decision, for your time. By noon, when you take 10 minutes to gulp down a sandwich at your desk, you already feel overworked, overcommitted -- overwhelmed.
Unchecked, this frantic approach is a recipe for dissatisfaction and despair -- all-too-common emotions these days for far too many of us.
We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive.
Your sense of 'responsibility' is a function of your response ability.
I learned that in karate. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. I learned that in karate. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. The power of a karate punch comes from speed, not muscle. And a tense muscle is a slow muscle. In other words, you can't do things faster until you learn how to slow down.
But how do you slow down? ! ?
It's all about the dynamic of detachment. Look at the best martial artists. They move very slowly. The faster you type, the slower it will feel to you, because you surf with your thinking. The same thing applies to reading: The faster you read, the more time will disappear, because you'll be able to feed stuff to your brain as fast as your brain can process it. That's why speed readers have better comprehension. They've trained their eyes to recognize stuff as fast as their brain can handle it.
This is the silent trauma of knowledge workers everywhere.
We inhabit a world, in which there are 'no edges to our jobs' and 'no limit to the potential information that can help us do our jobs better.' What's more, in a competitive environment that's continually being reshaped by the Web, we're tempted to rebalance our work on a monthly, weekly, even hourly basis.
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sabes tengo un nuevo video es muy cotidiano pero igual no deja de ser lindo
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