Awakening in Time

Between commutes, meetings at work, places the kids need to be, recurring community meetings and events, trash pickup days, and the various logistics of everyday life, most of us can clearly see that we’re not starting a new day from a clean slate. All of that disappears at the monthly perspective, and the daily perspective doesn’t show us the patt

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When we approach any task, as Mark notes in her book, Attention Span , we do so by constructing cognitive frames that marshal the various mental resources required for the activity. When distractions occur, we change frames mid-action. The frustration we feel in getting back on task involves the difficulty in reassembling the cognitive frame we enj

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And yet precisely because I was being forced to confront reality in this way—to see that I was always neglecting most tasks, in order to work on anything at all, and that working on everything at once simply wasn’t an option—the result was a powerful sense of undistracted calm, and a lot more productivity than in my days as a productivity obsessive... See more