3 Easy Time-Saving Tips to De-Stress Your Day

We all want more time. As audiologists and speech-language pathologists, we always want to squeeze another thing into our calendars. Recording data, communicating with families, completing paperwork—we can all use more time to get through our to-do lists outside of treatment or teaching. Of course, we know there isn’t more time. So how can we make the most of the time we do have? Writers like Charles Duhigg—“The Power of Habit” and “Smarter Faster Better”—and Benjamin Hardy—one of the most popular writers on Medium.com—offer tons of recommendations on how to best use your time. While we can all read about these ideas, it’s infinitely harder to put these ideas into practice. I successfully tried a few ideas to maximize my time as a busy SLP. I hope they might be useful for you. Recover and unwind from technology: I’m the biggest fan of technology, so this was hard to do. Turn off your email notifications, put your low-priority message threads on mute and try not to check your phone every time it buzzes. (I don’t know about you, but I feel phantom buzzes when my phone is in my pocket! Amazingly, I see no message when I swear I felt it.) Initially, you might feel like something is missing. There’s quite a bit of research about our phone addictions. We get a rush of dopamine every time we look: “Ooh, I got a Facebook notification! I wonder what happened.” “New message—I wonder who it’s from?” However, if you calculate time spent mindles...
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