Script for the workshop (see http://www.tskassociation.org/mastering-linear-time.html ) Title slide This short seminar introduces the Mastering Linear Time workshop, and points out some limitations of traditional time management. It also introduces the full range of benefits possible with time management and time mastery, and introduces some principles and a few methods that can be useful for mastering time. [...]
The seminar/movie is on YouTube at: http://youtu.be/sGqV6KViRuw Here’s the script for the seminar, by slide. Slide 1: This short seminar introduces essential definitions; inquiry about the zone, personal time, and the source of time pressure; and two powerful methods that can be useful for mastering time. Slide 2: Typical conventional time management (CTM) workshops only [...]
When there’s deadline pressure, the situation is always somewhat inflexible and intensely charged, like a carbonated beverage that’s been vigorously shaken. So all the keys to releasing the pressure loosen up this structure in some way. The Situation You’re Starting With Before moving on to the tips for releasing pressure, it’s important to understand exactly [...]
Have you given up making New Year’s resolutions because they don’t seem to work? Some say that people keep only 20% of their resolutions. How about a different approach to resolutions? Making resolutions is often a matter of will power and guilt, an exercise in strongly desiring and intending to do what we think we [...]
Modern work environments suffer from a number of issues: First, employees feel unfulfilled, and they have trouble relating their personal goals and values with organizational goals. Second, they’re not highly motivated, and they tend to think management is most interested in profit. Third, management has trouble sustaining, much less optimizing, employee motivation, especially in this [...]
Besides trying to affirmatively characterize the concept of engagement, we can also try to identify and describe ‘things’ that limit engagement (or involvement) at different levels of consciousness. And we can do this description with respect to certain topics or activities, such as communication. In this line of exploration, following are some questions to help individuals [...]
To better engage is to more fully participate, to get more involved and absorbed in whatever’s at hand, Allowing the dissolution of obstacles and limitations, Adding to the valued features of experience, Appreciating more coherent and expansive scenarios, And causing the invisible seeding and generation of all sorts of eventual progress, both inner and outer.
Preface The need for a new vision In this millennium people around the world could benefit from a vision of peak performance and self-actualization that can serve as a secular, cross-cultural meeting ground for personal achievement, spiritual and religious progress, ethics and morality, psychological growth, and organizational results–all at the same time. Such a vision [...]
Abstract: Like a personal space, we all seem to have a personal time, the time it typically takes us to process a bit of information. We’re used to this processing speed, and may not notice it unless we’re affected by emotions, heat/cold, or drugs like caffeine, which can speed us up or slow us down, [...]
A Tribute to Tarthang Tulku and the Time, Space, and Knowledge Vision I am grateful that Spandan (Foundation for Human Values in Management and Society) and IBA (Indian Business Academy) are promoting the development of values in the workplace by recognizing people through annual Spandan IBA awards in human values. (The award provides a [...]
