get it done: leverage neuroscience to do more, faster

Dr. Julie Gurner (@drgurner)DrGurner.com

Advisor, SquareOneMail.com

Dr. Julie Gurner (@drgurner)DrGurner.com

Advisor, SquareOneMail.com

Get it Done: Leverage Neuroscience to do more, faster.

Get it Done: Leverage Neuroscience to do more, faster.

First Principle: Heed Circadian Rhythm

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The Hypothalamus.

What’s Your Pattern?

Working 9-5? Well...

- Is this your optimum?- Are you

compensating?

Second Principle: Don’t Be a Dreamer.

The Real Deal...

“Positive expectations (judging a desired future as likely) predicted high effort and successful performance, but the reverse was true for positive fantasies (experiencing one's thoughts and mental images about a desired future positively).”Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 83(5), Nov 2002, 1198-1212.

Positive Expectation vs. Positive Fantasies.

Third Principle: Focus, Don’t Flounder

1. Hard Truth: You think you can multitask - You can’t.

The average person will reduce efficiency by as much as 40% when having to re-orient from a task.

2. Exciting Truth: If you are working 24/7, you are working wrong.

Separate the notion that working ALL the time = being productive.

Make Stress Work For You.

- Chronic Stress vs. Acute Stress in the Brain

Your Hippocampus.

Stress & Strategy.

What does this say about Project Management & Procrastination?

Fourth Principle: Tune Up.

A major factor that determines our ability to sustain attention and maintain peak cognitive performance has to do with the total amount of sleep you manage to get over several days.

- Harvard Business Review

Prefrontal Cortex.Sleep deprivation depletes the glucose level in your pre-frontal cortex...Christopher Barnes et al. Lack of Sleep and Unethical Conduct. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Making Processes (115) 2011 169-180

Thank You.Feel Free to Contact Me:

Dr. Julie Gurner[drgurner.com]

Twitter: @drgurner

Email: Julie@drgurner.com