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Time Management Doesn’t Work! --And What to Do About It: 

Time Management Doesn’t Work! --And What to Do About It

Preview: 

2 Preview ‘Normal’ & optimal personal time , and effects on well-being & productivity Zone of peak performance and involvement Keys to progress—where to focus Different types of time Two branches of time management— what (CTM) and how (ITM) we do things What ITM and CTM promise and do Limitations of CTM Levels of time mastery Some exercises to change personal time How time pressure arises: avoiding feelings Identify resources that are available

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3 Time poverty Anxiety Time’s external

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4 Deadline pressure Another struggle against time

Linear time’s conveyor: 

5 Linear time’s conveyor <— Past Present Future —> Edward Hall, The Dance of Life

Effects of Linear Time Paradigm: 

6 Effects of Linear Time Paradigm Feeling an uncontrollable flow of time causes us to struggle and race against it Our activities are effortful and stressful “Many illnesses—perhaps most—may be caused either wholly or in part by our misperception of time. . . . I am convinced that we can destroy ourselves through the creation of illness by perceiving time in a linear, one-way flow.” --Larry Dossey , M.D. What can be accomplished seems limited by size of containers, by the structure of time

Explore Unusual Questions: 

7 Explore Unusual Questions Does time always flow? If it flows, does it always flow at a constant rate? Can time’s flow be changed somehow?