Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life
If you’ve ever lost your keys, missed an appointment or wasted hours because you were distracted by a frivolous text or email message, then this book is for you.The key to a less hectic, less stressful life is not in simply organizing your desk, but organizing your mind. Dr. Paul Hammerness, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist, is at the forefront of new neuroscience research that has discovered the brain’s extraordinary built-in system of organization.Margaret Moore, a certified wellness coach and cofounder of Harvard’s Institute of Coaching, has helped to turn that science into solutions—showing you how to use the innate organizational power of your brain to make your life less stressful, more productive and, ultimately, more rewarding.Together, Dr. Paul and Coach Meg have created a one-two prescriptive punch that will teach you how to: - regain control of your emotions - embrace effective uni-tasking (because multitasking doesn’t work!) - fluidly shift from one task to another - curb time-consuming impulsivityThis groundbreaking guide is complete with stories of people who have learned to stop feeling powerless against multiplying distractions and start organizing their lives by organizing their minds.
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PRAISE FOR ORGANIZE YOUR MIND, ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE
âA treasure trove of tips, tools and techniques, making it possible to stay mindful of your self-care priorities while navigating the challenging stresses of everyday life.â
âPam Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP
Host, Discovery Health TVâs Could You Survive? Author of New York Times bestseller Fit to Live WebMDâs Lifestyle Expert
âMarvelous! This empowering collection of transformative, science-supported tools can help anyone change his or her life in healthier, happier directions. If you want a smart, straightforward guide to taming the crazy-making factors in your life and fulfilling more of your personal potential, this is it!â
âPilar Gerasimo
Editor-in-Chief, Experience Life magazine Senior Vice President, EducationâLife Time Fitness
âHammerness and Moore have translated the latest science in brain function into a few, highly effective skills that help us bring order and control in our lives. In a world where distractions are ever growing and taking new forms, this book offers key insights that will help us lead less stressful and more productive lives at work as well as at home.â
âJon Ayers
Chairman, President & CEO, IDEXX Laboratories
âTogether, Dr. Paul and Coach Meg offer hope. They show us what works and help us create a believable, workable plan to be our best in even the most challenging situations. This unique wellness coaching offers reasons, real-life strategies and results.â
âRuth Ann Harnisch, President
The Harnisch Foundation
âPractical and very accessible, this book significantly empowers anyoneâs ability to nimbly manage the massive amounts of information we all must deal with in an increasingly complex high-tech world.â
âJeffrey M. Schwartz, MD
Research Psychiatrist, UCLA Coauthor of You Are Not Your Brain and The Mind & the Brain
Organize Your Mind
Organize Your Life
Train Your Brain
to Get More Done in Less Time
Paul Hammerness, MD & Margaret Moore
with John Hanc
CONTENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: The Rules of Order/Dr. Hammerness
CHAPTER 2: A Change Will Do You Good/Coach Meg
CHAPTER 3: Rules of Order/Tame the Frenzy
CHAPTER 4: Rules of Order/Sustain Attention
CHAPTER 5: Rules of Order/Apply the Brakes
CHAPTER 6: Rules of Order/Mold Information
CHAPTER 7: Rules of Order/Shift Sets
CHAPTER 8: Rules of Order/Connect the Dots
CHAPTER 9: Staying on Top of a Fast-Changing World
APPENDIX 1: The Rules of Order At-A-Glance
APPENDIX 2: The Top 10 (Dis)organizational Complaintsâand Our Solutions
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
INTRODUCTION
HOW ORGANIZED ARE YOU?
(Please answer A, B or C.)
A. VERY ORGANIZED. My desk is neat, I never miss an appointment or a deadline, my friends are amazed, my co-workers are jealous and my boss loves me.
B. MODERATELY ORGANIZED. I manage to stay on top of things pretty well, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed, not sure what to do first, and I must admit that Iâm a little jealous of my colleagues and my boss who seem more organized.
C. COMPLETELY DISORGANIZED. In fact, Iâll be lucky if I can remember where I parked my car. Thatâs assuming I donât get a text or a phone call in the next two minutes, which will completely throw me off andâ¦what was the question again?
If you answered A, B or C, this book is for you! In Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life, we share with you the six key ways in which you can use âtop-down organizationâ to get more done in a lot less timeâand feel good about it.
By âtop-down organization,â we mean brain science. As you will see, there are amazing new insights gleaned about the way our brain works to organize our thoughts, actions and emotions. Through hightech brain scans, or neuroimaging, we can now âseeâ the response of the brain to various situations. Hereâs an exciting example of what scientists have found.
THE ORGANIZED BRAIN IN ACTION
In a 2008 study, subjects were shown a series of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral pictures while they were attempting the difficult task of keeping in check their emotional reactions. Through the use of hightech brain imaging or neuroimaging, researchers were able to observe the âthinkingâ regions of the subjectsâ brains (including areas called the prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex) managing the âemotionâ-generating parts of the brain. Itâs an intriguing new study that sheds light into the brainâs own built-in system of organization and regulationâone that strives for order, one that can âtamp downâ (suppress) our emotions when necessary.
As we will show you, once you can better manage your emotions, you can then begin to harmonize and focus the various âthinkingâ parts of your brain, opening up a whole new world before you. Youâre on your way to achieving a more organized, less stressful, more productive and, in many ways, more rewarding life. Andâhereâs the most exciting partâthe features in the brainâs magnificent self-regulation system come âpreloadedâ in every functioning human mind; these features can be accessed, initialized and utilized to allow you to become better organized and to feel more on top of things.
