by Petra N. | May 26, 2016 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Email notifications, IMs, text alerts and other collaboration tool reminders have created more opportunities than before for digital interruptions. Are collaboration tools to blame? Tools are just one side of the equation. The other side is users. Humans program these...
by Petra N. | Jan 15, 2016 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Take better care of your sense organs. We wash our eyes, apply oil on our skin, clean our ears and brush our teeth. Isn’t that all there is to it? Nope, there’s much more. We use our sense organs to perceive the world. Each of them is unique in how it takes in stimuli...
by Petra N. | Nov 17, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Time. We all have 24 hours of it in a day, yet we always seem to be strapped for it. We’re overscheduled. And when we free up one thing in our calendar, we replace it with something else. We lead with “doing”. Always doing. Rarely just being. When we just “are”, many...
by Petra N. | Nov 3, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Stress continues to be one of those elephant-in-the-room kind of topics at work. We don’t want our boss or team to know we’re stressed because it’s viewed as a negative thing and a weakness in the workplace. And often times, we are so caught up in it that we ourselves...
by Petra N. | May 21, 2015 | Featured blog post, Lifestyle
Workplace interruptions are not new. In today’s world, however, there are more ways to stop somebody’s thought flow than ever before. Besides the casual popping by your desk or workspace, interrupters IM, email, text and call you, almost simultaneously at times. Let’s...