Work-Life Balance
Focus and productivity are foundational elements to creating your work-life balance. After all, the more focused and productive you are, the more control you'll have over everything in your life. These articles will help you develop and hone your focus and productivity skills.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
Is your wired, tired and uninspired mind inhibiting your focus?
By Charles Araujo
expert
Maintaining an exclusively organizational focus is where most transformation efforts go off the rails. Enterprise leaders fail to make transformation personal.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
So how long have you been in a relationship with your phone? Don’t laugh! It’s a serious question. And here’s another one: is your relationship a healthy one? Don’t worry, I’m not recommending that the two of you you break up. However, like any healthy relationship, both parties need some alone time to tend to
By Laura Araujo
administrator
“Not now. I need to focus.” “Ugh. I just can’t seem to focus right now.” How many times have you uttered these statements? If you’re like most of us, probably more times than you care to admit. And yet, we make those statements almost offhandedly, as if there’s nothing we can do about it other
By Laura Araujo
administrator
When your brain isn’t focused on a task, it switches into autopilot mode whenever it can. This switch to automatic processing allows your brain to rest its prefrontal cortex.
Autopilot can be incredibly helpful, especially when we are talking about brushing our teeth, flossing, dressing ourselves, checking the mail, cleaning the kitchen, it saves us unnecessary decision-making.
The danger is when we don’t notice that we’ve slipped into this mode.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
Not only does constantly striving to achieve things potentially up our cortisol levels and mess up our microbiome, it creates neuropathways that are not conducive to a mindful existence. In other words, the more we focus on doing things, the more our mind rewires around that, which makes us harder to be mindful — which, in case you’ve not been following along, ain’t so great.
So how do we mindfully go the other direction? By getting more rest.
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