085: Eliminating Stress by Bending Time

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Productivity, 790708, Tanyadalton, Inkwellpress, Management, Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 605 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Do some hours seem long and enjoyable while others feel fleeting and full of stress? Today, we are going to be talking about eliminating stress by bending time. We’ll talk about the impact planning fallacy has on our perception of time and how to make our important tasks more manageable and our days more enjoyable by using time buffers. We’ll also discuss the importance of lingering and six ideas that reinforce the idea of not rushing on to the very next thing.

What’s In This Episode:

The concept and benefits of bending time
Reclaiming our time by intentionally scheduling for action, thought and conversation
The impact planning fallacy has on our future planning
Making our important tasks manageable by using time buffers
Six ideas to reinforce the idea of lingering

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 7 of Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on using
0:07.5	productivity not just to get more done, but to accomplish what's most important. Join Tanya this
0:12.8	season as she focuses on cultivating happiness through the power of productivity. To get her
0:17.4	free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to Inquellpress.com
0:22.6	slash podcast. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:27.9	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell
0:34.0	Press, and this is episode 85. Today, we are going to be talking about eliminating
0:40.3	stress by bending time. Now, I know you might be thinking, what in the world is she talking about?
0:47.6	Because we know time is concrete. An hour is always 60 minutes. There's no changing that.
0:59.0	So why is it that sometimes these hours seem long and enjoyable? And other times feel fleeting and maybe even somewhat stressed.
1:04.0	That's the concept I want to talk about today.
1:07.0	Time is an element that is non-renewable.
1:10.0	You can't make more time once you've spent it, but we can change how it feels.
1:16.1	We can bend it to make it feel long and lingering.
1:21.0	Now, as we get older, time seems to speed up, right?
1:24.9	Life seems to keep going faster and faster.
1:29.4	But truly, our sense of time is pliable. We can stretch it and compress it. And then there are other times so that it feels
1:35.5	like it's at an utter and complete standstill. Neuroscientist David Engelman explains it this way.
1:42.7	When we turn our brain resources on to process new information, time tends to stretch out.
1:49.3	And when you note that everything is as expected and nothing new is happening, time compresses.
1:56.1	So in other words, when we're engaged in our present moment, we make time stretch. But if we let it, time can
2:04.0	and will pass us by. There's no stopping time. It keeps marching on. But we can bend it and we can
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