Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. —Christopher Parker Procrastination is a con. It tempts me into thinking it will be easier later, tomorrow, next week. It lets my fears expand and my resolution diminish. It holds me in suspension, like salt in the sea, ever … The post Why Wait first appeared on The Phoenix Spirit.| The Phoenix Spirit
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the educational landscape, teachers have a unique opportunity to model how to use it responsibly, creatively, and strategically.| eSchool News
♟️🥋 Distraction Strategy 🥋♟️ This article is designed as a follow-up to my “Martial Arts and Chess” article 🥋♟️, building upon the explorations of strategy and discipline already laid out there. Here, the focus sharpens specifically on the Distraction Strategy 🎯 — how psychological 🧠, environmental 🌍, and tactical ⚔️ [Read More] The post Distraction Strategy appeared first on Martial Journal.| Martial Journal
It happens to all of us. You’re in a meeting, and the time to make your point is coming soon. You’ve made your Message Map and feel prepared. And then you see a text message on your phone, a bug on the meeting room floor, or an executive in running shorts out the window, who … Continue reading "How do you stay on message when you’re distracted?" The post How do you stay on message when you’re distracted? appeared first on Crystal Clear Communications.| Crystal Clear Communications
In this week’s guided meditation, mindfulness teacher and designer Toby Sola shows us how we can use what distracts us to strengthen and sharpen our attention.| Mindful
By Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and we launched our 2021–2022 Most Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements on April 6. It seemed only natural that we begin our Most Wanted List blog series with the item, “Eliminate Distracted Driving.” Crashes involving distracted drivers killed 3,142 people in 2019—up … Continue reading Eliminate Distracted Driving→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Member Jennifer Homendy When you think of common ways drivers are distracted on the road, you probably think of talking or texting on mobile devices, eating, reading, or perhaps even putting on makeup or shaving. It’s easy to recognize that these risky behaviors are distractions. There are even laws on the books in several … Continue reading It’s Past Time to Think About Cognitive Distraction→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
The blog was co-authored by: Bruce Landsberg, Vice-Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board Lorraine Martin, President & CEO, National Safety Council By now, we all should be aware of the deadly consequences of distracted driving. Yet, driving while distracted by cell phone use has become too common an occurrence on the nation’s roads. This must stop. … Continue reading Joining Forces on Distracted Driving→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Nicholas Worrell, Chief, NTSB Safety Advocacy Division Sunday, November 15, is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. I’ve known many of you who have lost loved ones this way, and I’ve worked alongside many survivor advocates for years. Along with the courage and strength I’ve seen among these survivors, it’s plain to me that … Continue reading World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
Time management is the process of managing time effectively, which enables you to focus your time and energy on your biggest priorities. Good time management enables you to work smarter, not harder, so you can achieve bigger results in less time. When you manage your time effectively, you can get more done in less time. […] The post 10 Tips For Managing Time Effectively appeared first on Lucemi Consulting: Productivity and Time Management Coach.| Lucemi Consulting: Productivity and Time Management Coach
Weekly planning is the process of organising your goals and priorities for the week ahead. Learning how to plan your week helps you manage your time better and ensure you start each week feeling focused and productive. Planning your week in advance saves time, boosts productivity, and help you get more done. When you plan […] The post 6 Tips to Plan Your Week Effectively appeared first on Lucemi Consulting: Productivity and Time Management Coach.| Lucemi Consulting: Productivity and Time Management Coach
Calculations of the value of existential risk mitigation efforts should not neglect the harms done by those efforts. This post focuses on one such harm: distraction from near-term risks.| Reflective altruism
By NTSB Safety Advocacy Division Last week, NTSB Board Member Thomas Chapman and agency staff spoke at the Safe Mobility Conference, hosted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Attendees came from throughout government, industry, academia, the research community, advocacy, and other key stakeholder groups. … Continue reading NTSB at Safe Mobility→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Nicholas Worrell, Chief, NTSB Safety Advocacy Division Sunday, November 19, is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Every year on this day, people around the world honor the me…| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Leah Walton, NTSB Safety Advocate The 2023-2024 school year is upon us, and parents all over the country are preparing to send their students back to school. In the rush to gather back-to-school supplies, it’s easy to lose sight of what “back to school” means at the basic, literal level. Your student is going … Continue reading Back to School – Safely!→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Vice Chair Bruce Landsberg On July 7 Gov. Mike Parson signed the Siddens Bening Hands Free Law, prohibiting the use of portable electronic devices while driving, making Missouri the 49th state with some form of texting ban. The District of Columbia also bans texting and driving. As the nation battles the rising number of … Continue reading Missouri Bans Texting While Driving, Only Montana Remains→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Bryan Delaney, NTSB Safety Advocate This week is Teen Driver Safety Week, a time dedicated to raising awareness and seeking solutions to prevent teen driving-related deaths and injuries on the road. The NTSB has long advocated for preventive measures that would address the common factors—distractions, fatigue, impairment, speeding, and lack of seat belt use—contributing … Continue reading Teen Driver Safety Week: Keeping The Next Generation Safe on the Roads→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Nicholas Worrell, Chief, NTSB Safety Advocacy Division More people are dying in crashes since the pandemic began. Deaths on our roads increased from 36,096 in in 2019 to 38,824 in 2020, and to an estimated 31,720 in the first 9 months of 2021, a further 12% increase. At that rate of increase, fatalities will … Continue reading Kicking off National Distracted Driving Awareness Month→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Leah Read, NTSB Senior Air Safety Investigator “N555$$, call the tower. N555$$ call the tower…your gear isn’t down!” As a newly minted certified flight instructor (CFI) in the early 90s, I loved reading the latest addition of Flight Training magazine. I’ll never forget reading a funny quip about a pilot who was on final … Continue reading BEFORE LANDING CHECKLIST to Pilot: “Remember me?”→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Bryan Delaney, NTSB Safety Advocate Last month, as part of Teen Driver Safety Week the NTSB held two virtual roundtables to discuss the state of teen driver safety and graduated driver license l…| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
October 17-23, 2021 was designated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as Teen Driver Safety Week, a time dedicated to raising awareness of preventive measures that can be taken to eliminate teen injuries and fatalities on American roadways. In this episode of Behind-the-Scene @ NTSB, State and Local Liaison Steve Blackistone, Chief of the … Continue reading EPISODE 44: TEEN DRIVER SAFETY→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Bryan Delaney, NTSB Safety Advocate For most teens, receiving the car keys for their first trip alone on the road is a ceremonious moment—one that opens their world to freedom of mobility. For parents and guardians, however, this moment can be nerve-wracking. Unfortunately, the anxiety parents and guardians feel is justifiable, as traffic crashes … Continue reading Teen Driver Safety: Education + Action = Positive Change→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Member Tom Chapman Each year, Operation Lifesaver, Inc., spearheads Rail Safety Week. For 2021, Rail Safety Week runs from September 20 through 26. Operation Lifesaver and its safety partners across North America, including the NTSB, use this annual event to educate and empower the public to make safe decisions around trains and tracks and … Continue reading RAIL SAFETY WEEK 2021→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Jeff Marcus, Chief, NTSB Safety Recommendations Division Fifteen years ago today, on August 27, 2006, Comair flight 5191, a Bombardier CL-600-2B19, lined up on the wrong runway and crashed during takeoff from Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky (LEX), killing 49 people, including the captain and flight attendant. The first officer, who was seriously injured, … Continue reading Comair 5191 Crash Led to Air Traffic Control Changes→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Member Michael Graham Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of death and injuries in the United States. Early estimates for 2020 show that more than 38,000 people lost their lives in traffic crashes on our nation’s roads. These preventable tragedies are often due to driver mistakes and poor decisions—speeding or driving while impaired, … Continue reading It’s Time to Require Collision-Avoidance and Connected-Vehicle Technologies on all Vehicles→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
By Stephanie Shaw, NTSB Safety Advocate As parents, caregivers, teachers, school administrators, and school transportation safety professionals prepare for the return to school the health and safety of our children is the highest priority. This school year, back to school preparation for our children looks very different and it’s easy to forget about transportation safety … Continue reading Back-to-School Transportation Safety→| NTSB Safety Compass Blog
One of the best infrequently recurring Saturday Night Live sketches stars Bill Hader as the sardonic host of a game show called “What’s That Name?” As he explains, “The rules are simple, we show you a person, and you tell us their name.” Here’s the latest iteration from earlier this year: The script follows the […]| The Christian Rationalist
The Agile method of software development took the software world by storm in early 2000s. It has continued to grow significantly in the last two decades. So much has it grown that its predecessor, the waterfall model, is now seen as an outdated Jurassic method of approaching software. Very few companies still stick to the … Continue reading "Beware of 100% Agile" The post Beware of 100% Agile appeared first on Tech 101.| Tech 101
In 2007, I made some observations and named what I was seeing in a 2008 Huffington Post article. I described a phenomenon I initially called email apnea, and later referred to, interchangeably as e…| Linda Stone