Time Management At It’s Best, One List or Two?
Whether we like to admit it or not, when we
have too much to do we are overwhelmed.
When we are overwhelmed we become inefficient, agitated, short tempered
and quite frankly a pain to know.
Why? Because it’s stressful. When cortisol the stress hormone is over
stimulated havoc breaks loose.
The big three that cause a huge surge of
cortisol are bereavement, divorce and moving house. But believe it or not, this kind of stress is
not the health risk we think, because no matter how bad we feel, we will
recover on some level.
Equally, cortisol secretion in the short
term is great because it keeps us alert, sharp and we can think on our feet. If however, it goes on for too long that’s
when things go badly wrong. Typically
this happens at work when tasks are not finished. It’s the undone to-do list that eats away at
us like a nasty little finger constantly prodding and poking robbing us of our
sanity.
