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6 Incredible TED Talks About Time ManagementFind inspiration from TED Talks? Read six short summaries on time management-focused TED talks to find multiple tips on how to most effectively organize your lifestyle.
How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TEDTime management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got.
How to improve your time management skillsEffective time management is challenging enough, but even more so in the medical world. Read these five strategies to help you more effectively manage your time as a physician.
How to make work-life balance workListen to Nigel Marsh educate about the impeding importance of work-life balance, and how to actually make it happen.
How to make work-life balance workSpeaker Nigel Marsh advises the importance of finding the best way to balance life, family, work, and personal time.
In praise of SlownessJournalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives.
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator by Tim UrbanIn this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window — and encourages us to think harder about what we're really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.
Near-Death Experience Leads Physician to Promote EmpathyDr. Rana L.A. Awdish's near-death experience due to an occult adenoma rupturing in her liver gave her a brand new perspective based on the lack of empathy she received as a patient. Her experience as a patient totally changed the way she practices, cares and treats her patients and she realized the vital importance of incorporating empathy in the medical field.
Physician Burnout Video, Intention Journaling and the Treasure Hunt5 minute training video to help physicians work through burnout by means of Intention Journaling and the Treasure Hunt process.
Resident Physician Wellness: A New HopeThis article highlights the salient causes of burnout as it applies to present-day resident physicians and the patient care they provide. Moreover, in the wake of the controversy surrounding duty hours reform, a novel approach to resident wellness involving structured resident wellness programs is discussed.
The happy secret to better workWe believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.
Thriving in Scrubs: Doctor’s OrdersWhy is it so hard to take our own good advice about maintaining health? We talk to Barbara, an internal medicine physician about nutrition, and consider why doctors don’t take their own advice about sleep and exercise and other good habits.
Thriving in Scrubs: Mothering While DoctoringBecoming pregnant and having children is a part of life for many doctors that challenges their efforts to balance their personal and professional selves. This deeply human experience adds insight into the experiences that patients have, but adds weight to the personal demands and experiences the doctors have.
TimeWe live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, we have the opportunity to consider the ways we conceive of the intersection between time and speed on a physical and metaphysical level.
Time in the bank: A Stanford plan to save doctors from burnoutIn order to decrease physician burnout, Stanford hospital's "time banking" program helps physicians achieve better life-balance by rewarding certain behaviors (mentoring, shift covering, etc.) for credit to buy certain home/life services (home-cooked meals, cleaning, etc.).
Time Management: How to Write a To-Do List & Know Where Your Time GoesThis TED Ed offers time-management advice and interactive, personalized organisation strategies to help you more effectively organize your tasks, goals and projects.
Work Life Balance – the #1 Life Balance Skill and the Power of “NO”How to create a "life" calendar along with your "work" calendar – strategies in balancing the importance of both.
Work-Life “Balance” Isn’t the PointThis article emphasizes work-life "effectiveness" over work-life "balance," pointing out that finding a compatible relationship between the two is the optimal solution versus practicing separation and division.
Working overtime? At Stanford, physicians bank the time for later.Doctors have plenty of money, but zero time—so Stanford started paying them in hours instead of dollars. How might outsourcing the 'second shift' save us all from burnout?