A book that every young woman (and man) ought to consider reading asap is The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas G. Carr. It basically dares to explore the question, “is the internet making us stupid?”
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What do you do to deal with frustration? After being stuck in a spiral of feeling frustrated, you panic about the situation, add stress and anxiety to your life, feel powerless with your situation and then do absolutely nothing about it. Instead of wasting time overthinking through situations that cause you frustration at work, know that you cannot get rid of them, but you can learn to respond to them in a healthy manner
Nous vivons dans un monde globalisé, où les demandes sont constantes et qui exige efficacité et rapidité. Nous avons des délais…
Help give your students a concentration boost and improve their academic performance by adding these seven practical strategies to their daily routine.
If you feel overwhelmed by the amount of things on your to-do list and the short amount of time that you have available each day, you need to learn time boosting techniques. You need to
Distractions happen to everyone. And they decrease productivity in everyone. So what can you do to minimize distractions in your life- especially during times when you really need to focus and get …
Previously Published in the Hughson Chronicle-Denair Dispatch It’s hard to focus. I sit down to begin our homeschool day with one child. The washing machine cycle finishes and beeps until I attend to it. The littlest one needs a diaper change. I hang the clothes on the clothesline, sit down again and realize weContinue reading "Regaining Focus: A Review of Deep Work by Cal Newport"
Do you realize how close you are to turning your dreams into your reality? If you could see how close you are to success, you’d be kicking yourself that you haven’t just reached out to grab it yet. The truth is, no matter how much you feel like a failure, success is literally waiting to flood your life. The only thing you have to do, is tear down the “Success Floodgates” holding it back. Here’s 3 “Success Floodgates” holding back your dreams: 1. Making Excuses If we choose someone successful to look at as an example, like Steve Jobs, we’ll
It's important to get in the zone when you work. I share 10 hacks on how to help you focus better when you get into work.
We all have good days and bad days. For some of us, especially if mental health issues are involved, the bad days can be all-consuming, so when they hit we need to have the coping skills to deal wi…
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While there may be significant studies about how social media distractions cost businesses millions of money, recent research conducted by James Fowler at
In Start with Why, Simon Sinek (2011) explains how Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were able to drive large-scale cultural changes in a non- violent way. The common thread…
Although workplaces today make it seemingly easy for people to collaborate, most leaders remain dissatisfied with the pace and frequency of breakthroughs.
Dwight Eisenhower. The 34th President of the United States. Supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II. The man who launched programs that led to the inception of NASA, the internet and the Interstate Highway System. A busy man. And judging by his actions – a man who made effective and productive…
Even when we have the best of intentions, we can easily become distracted when trying to listen to others. If we can learn how to practice active
Do you feel frustrated that you can't focus at work? Here are 5 reasons why you can't focus at work and what to do about it.
There are many procedures that you teach at the beginning of the year. Some of them you know by heart. But, it seems like there are always a few that you forget to teach until you have an "oops!" moment. Phone calls are one of those procedures that I forget to teach my class until I get my first phone call. Then it is the big "Oops! I really need to add that to my procedures list next year". Somehow I forget to do that because you know what the beginning of the year is like, crazy busy with a big dose of overwhelm-ness thrown in for good measure. Learn from my mistakes and add what you want your students to do when the phone rings to your procedure list. The next time the phone rings, you'll be glad you did. At the beginning of the year, there is always a larger percentage of your class that blurts out. For some students, it takes them a while to get back into school mode. For others, it can be a matter of: ANXIETY: Beginning of the year can be a scary thing. Think about your last job interview did you ramble on more than you normally would? This is how it is with the nervous type of blurters. They are anxious. With time, they will adjust to the expectations of your classroom. Sensitivity and patience works best with these type of students. Heavy handed discipline or laying-down the law does not work with an anxious blurter. All that does is make them more anxious and prone to blurt more. Try to ignore their blurting as much as possible. Making connections with them during work time or recess will help make them more comfortable with you and at school. The smallest comment like "I noticed you working really hard on your journal today" can pay the biggest dividends with them. IMPULSIVITY: Some students are impulsive and excitable by nature. It could be also be a matter of maturity. Check their birthdate. Were they born between May - August? Whether it is their nature or a matter of maturity, there are strategies that you can use. The parking garage is a strategy to use when you are teaching a whole group lessons. Some students that blurt respond well to a visual reminder. I made small stop signs and kept them everywhere that I kept one at my reading table, carpet time, white board, and all the other places that I taught. I didn't stop what I was teaching when one of my students blurted, I held up my small stop sign that I put on a popsicle stick. The student quickly learned what the sign meant and without any verbal directions from me, stopped interrupting the lesson. Here is a freebie for you. Do you have colleagues that pop in when you are teaching? Sometimes there is a reason why it is necessary to ask you a question during your instructional time. But, many times questions could wait until you have a prep period, or before/after school. If you have co-workers that are making a habit of popping in at the wrong time you can handle it different ways. Talk to them, privately, if it is becoming a problem. Shut your classroom door during the day when you are teaching and don't want to be interrupted. This works as a visual cue for most people. If you don't want to be interrupted after school when you are catching up on paperwork, close your door then, too. It works as well after school as during the day. Did you hang a marker board outside your dorm room in undergrad? People left you notes if you were sleeping or not in your room. I have seen teachers used this same type of method. They kept a marker board or even a small table with a pad of paper and pen outside their classroom door. People can write a note and leave it in the basket. The first school I taught at was a Catholic School. Students were taught to stand up next to their desk, face the person who enters their classroom, and greet them with either "Good Morning Mr./Mrs. ___ or Good Afternoon Mr./Mrs. ____". It was to show respect and greet the person when he or she came into a classroom. People rarely visited other classrooms during the instructional time, because the greetings clearly demonstrated that you were interrupting our class. Looking for more tips? Check out my Classroom Management Pinterest board. Click on the picture below. Fern has a few tips to share with you, too. Be sure to hop over to her blog! Each week, Fern and I share a Tuesday Teacher Tip. We love to read teacher blogs and the latest teacher idea books and hope you do, too! Stop by Fern's blog and my blog each week for our latest tips. We hope you will share your ideas, too. Each week we will choose one person who shared a tip on our blog who will get a $10 shopping trip. We will announce the winner on the following Tuesday's post. Do you have a interruptions, blurts, or other distraction tip to share? Be sure to include your email so I can contact you if you're the winner of the $10 shopping trip. You must leave your email address in order to win. Looking for more ideas? Click on the pictures below. An InLinkz Link-up http://teach123-school.blogspot.com/2014/08/interruptions-blurts-out-and-other.html
If you have distractible kids you've wondered how to teach them and how to get them to concentrate. Here's several tips I've found working for helping distractible kids focus.
"Fight or Flight: Who Runs Your Life?" by Tony Schwartz "Think, for a moment, about the life you're living. You skitter from ...
No bucket dippers here! Just fun and free ways to fill up buckets every day.
A 2014 study found that emotions tend to “be felt” in similar areas of the body. Read where they’re found and how to release the emotions that can get stuck in your body.
I am seeing clients today, and I thought I'd share these whimsical illustrations of a therapist's brain: and heart: Enjoy!
Focusing these days seems to be a struggle for not just adults with ADHD, but there are strategies we can use to help us focus at home, or at work.
So it happened 'like' this. I followed @elearninglaura I saw on her profile she had a blog (good it is too) I saw a post on her blog about a tool for making your own infographics (Piktochart) I thought cool - @fullonlearning (who also has a superb blog) will like that and so tweeted her about it @TeamTait
今のデジタル社会を生きるために、スマホは絶対に欠かせないもの。そんな中、昨今よく耳にするようになったのが「デジタルデトックス」という言葉。スマホなどのデジタル機器を一定時間使わないで、蓄積した情報ストレスを“排毒”するということ。デジタルデトックスに効果的な、おすすめスマホ設定を紹介。
This post was originally posted back in 2015 on my blog and has been a popular post since that time. I worked for a decade as a family counselor and elementary school counselor before staying
Saying “Have a good day” is a lovely way to make someone smile. It’s like giving a little gift of happiness. This blog post will show you many ways to say this simple, kind phrase. Whether you’re talking to a friend, someone you love, or even in a formal setting, you’ll find the perfect way […]
Here's How The World's Most Brilliant People Scheduled Their Days
Headphones? Eh.. Dark wave music? Maybe For the longest time, I have aspired to manage distractions. Social media, phone calls, unfinished books & never-ending messages; sometimes it gets tough to focus on writing. Since distractions are unavoidable, I am learning to deal with them. I’m NOT an expert on anything and I know it. Just sharing the little knowledge I have gained in managing distractions, my 10-point plan. · Meditate. · Clean up. · Take a break. · Reward yourself. · Become an early bird. · Control television time. · Silence your cell phone. · Use the Internet sparingly. · Take it one thing at a time. · Turn off the background noise. If your goal is effortless work while at home battling once-in-a-century pandemic, start here. MANAGING DISTRACTIONS Also, make these habits of successful people yours. HABITS OF SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
Testing three apps on the path to productivity nirvana
