Thursday, January 06, 2005
Time to Take Control of Your Work
Here are no-nonsense tips for restructuring your work habits so you can be more productive and successful in 2005.
By Louise Witt in Fortune
Julie Morgenstern is an organizational guru and author of Making Work Work: New Strategies for Surviving and Thriving at the Office (Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster, 2004, $22.) Visit http://www.juliemorgenstern.com/
Here are no-nonsense tips for restructuring your work habits so you can be more productive and successful in 2005.
By Louise Witt in Fortune
To help maintain a balance in your work life, [Julia] Morgenstern recommends keeping daily and weekly progress reports. Every evening, spend 15 to 20 minutes checking off what you've accomplished and deciding what projects you need to carry over to the next day. You may decide that you don't have to do that task after all, or you may decide to delegate it to someone else. On Friday, spend 20 to 30 minutes reviewing your past week and planning for your next one.
"Plan your day plus two, " Morgenstern says. "You can't just be looking one day ahead in this environment. You have to be looking past tomorrow, because you don't know what crises will come up. So, you always need a three-day overview."
Julie Morgenstern is an organizational guru and author of Making Work Work: New Strategies for Surviving and Thriving at the Office (Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster, 2004, $22.) Visit http://www.juliemorgenstern.com/
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Read JD BLISS to get updates like this one. Here is an idea as to WHY you should be active outside the office and your head.
Media Coverage: Lawyer Equestrians: Dressage/English Riders
Diane McManus, a supervising attorney at Lone Star Legal Aid, and Ceil Price, an in-house consulting environmental lawyer with Shell Oil Products US, both of Houston, participate in English riding - an equestrian sport in which a judge scores the rider's control of the horse in various intricate patterns of walk/ trot/canter in specific measured patterns.
"Lawyers live in their heads," says Diane. "Riding dressage is very physical, very outside yourself. It also focuses on detail and precision, like lawyering."
Read more about these lawyer equestrians in the Houston Lawyer's Off the Record column.
Media Coverage: Lawyer Equestrians: Dressage/English Riders
Diane McManus, a supervising attorney at Lone Star Legal Aid, and Ceil Price, an in-house consulting environmental lawyer with Shell Oil Products US, both of Houston, participate in English riding - an equestrian sport in which a judge scores the rider's control of the horse in various intricate patterns of walk/ trot/canter in specific measured patterns.
"Lawyers live in their heads," says Diane. "Riding dressage is very physical, very outside yourself. It also focuses on detail and precision, like lawyering."
Read more about these lawyer equestrians in the Houston Lawyer's Off the Record column.
Monday, January 03, 2005
The Proof Is In: Meditation Is Powerful Brain Exercise
Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 3, 2005; Page A05
"Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness....
"What we found is that the trained mind, or brain, is physically different from the untrained one," he said. In time, "we'll be able to better understand the potential importance of this kind of mental training and increase the likelihood that it will be taken seriously."
Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 3, 2005; Page A05
"Brain research is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness....
"What we found is that the trained mind, or brain, is physically different from the untrained one," he said. In time, "we'll be able to better understand the potential importance of this kind of mental training and increase the likelihood that it will be taken seriously."
