Save The Day
Wednesday, March 22 2006Dear friend,
I hope this finds you well. Recent research shows that time and emotion are inextricably connected in our minds, and that our thoughts and perceptions can affect the way we experience time passing.
Psychologist Dr David Eagleman, of the University of Texas, asked volunteer Jesse Kallus to perform a heart-stopping backwards free-fall of 33 metres in order to test his perception of time.
While Jesse was falling, his brain seemed to speed up its processing, and was able to take in information that would normally pass by too fast to register - and, repeated experiments with this strongly suggest that our minds handle time in a different way when we are under extreme pressure.
Of course, the irony is that the less well we handle time in our lives, and the more stress we put ourselves under, the slower and more gruelling the working day can seem!
Our wonderful Time Management expert Francine Kaye is here today to coach us on ways to relieve the burden and cut out the tiny distractions that send your schedule to pieces and pump up that pressure. If you've ever wondered where the day went, she can help you to identify and fix the ways in which time's getting away from you.
She's running an afternoon workshop in London on Saturday 22nd April called Time To Live, and you can read more about that online, here.
