From the course: How to Slow Down and Be More Productive

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What is the missing minute?

What is the missing minute?

From the course: How to Slow Down and Be More Productive

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What is the missing minute?

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- Somewhere along the line, someone stole a minute from you. It's the minute that should exist between every appointment, every meeting, and every task you perform. This is different than the concept of mindfulness, which has value. What I'm referring to is simply a unit of time. 60 seconds. It's about the amount of time it takes blood to make a round trip to your heart. And that missing minute contributes to the stress, mistakes, and inefficiency you're feeling in your day. Without this minute, you live and work as if on a razor's edge, with no room for error. I see people on this edge when they schedule meetings and appointments back to back to back, or when they jump from email to email with no moment for a breath. Or when they scroll through social media and the news so quickly that they just glance at the headlines, rather than reading anything. When you operate on the razor's edge, you will get cut when the…

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