Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload.A huge variety of product offering doesn't aid consumers. It is insanity. From the vast array of athletic shoes to bagels to portable CD players to bottled water, there quickly becomes a point at which mega-choices, like mega-information, do not serve the consumer; they abuse him.
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A study at Cornell University found that low-level noise both lowered job motivation and increased stress levels. It appears as well that an open-office type of environment can contribute to musculoskeletal problems such as a stiff back or tense neck and even heart disease due to increased levels of epinephrine, a stress hormone.
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Over-communication at work can create a new level of tasks and responsibilities.
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Have a life for the rest of the day.
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When you control the spaces in your life, control of your time and life tend
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Your life is finite, your death is guaranteed. Rather than wait 'til old age
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Unless you address the root causes of the time pressure and the stress you
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Our current generation is the most time-pressed generation in history.
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The time necessary to learn all the rules for effective living now exceeds
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If you don't have peace at home, then where will you have it?
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A keen sense of history is more enlightening than the evening news.
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When everyone is too busy, don't expect a more productive society. Expect a frantic society.
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The present is the only moment when you can take action.
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Arrange your personal space to support the way you work and live.
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The human mind appreciates closure and a clean ending.
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