We all need to make time to do the things that we love.

…one of life’s greatest rewards — the simple pleasure of doing something you merely, but truly, enjoy.

https://medium.com/@superwuster/opinion-in-praise-of-mediocrity-86f40db6e70c

Your times is scarce. Make the most of it. Autonomic+ makes meeting your nursing CPD easier for only $10 a month.

Here are seven factors that can lead to mistakes at work. Nurses face these factors every day.

When it comes to overloading our cognitive brains, the seven factors are: being outside of your circle of competence, stress, rushing or urgency, fixation on an outcome, information overload, being in a group where social cohesion comes into play, and being in the presence of an “authority.” Acting alone any of these are powerful enough, but together they dramatically increase the odds you are unaware that you’ve been cognitively compromised.

https://fs.blog/2019/01/how-not-to-be-stupid/

“We do that with the memory boards and you can see the sparkle come back into their eyes.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47056039

A simple idea that makes a big difference.

Doodling is not a waste of time.

…drawing out the things we want to remember can be a powerful technique to combat our natural declines in memory, better even than repeatedly writing them down or listing characteristics and descriptors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/smarter-living/memory-tricks-mnemonics

Creating a to-do list is the right tool for recording nursing notes because we remember what we have to do, not what we have done.

…to-do lists…dampen anxiety about the chaos of life; they give us a structure, a plan that we can stick to; and they are proof of what we have achieved that day, week or month.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/10/the-psychology-of-the-to-do-list-why-your-brain-loves-ordered-tasks

Bad news is more sudden than good news, which is usually gradual. Therefore bad news is more newsworthy.

People vastly overestimate the frequency of crime, because crime disproportionately dominates the news. But random violence makes the news because it is rare, whereas routine kindness doesn’t make the news because it is so common.

http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/the-persistent-appeal-of-pessimism/

People have a negativity bias. The good news is that the world is doing better than you think.

…when you are young and experiencing lots of new stimuli—everything is new—time actually seems to be passing more slowly. 

https://qz.com/1516804/physics-explains-why-time-passes-faster-as-you-age/

You “see” more slowly so it feels like time is passing faster as the brain takes longer to process visual information.

Learning new things in short chunks is an overlooked gem that is hiding in plain sight.

Intelligent preparation is like compound interest, the more you invest, the more situations you can handle, the more you learn how to do, so the more you can do, etc.

https://fs.blog/2019/01/great-things/

And yet the truth is that more often than not, techniques designed to enhance one’s personal productivity seem to exacerbate the very anxieties they were meant to allay. The better you get at managing time, the less of it you feel that you have.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/22/why-time-management-is-ruining-our-lives

Idle time needs to built into any system so you can do what you need to do.

In the accident and emergency department, by contrast, remaining “inefficient” in this sense is a matter of life and death. If there is an exclusive focus on using the staff’s time as efficiently as possible, the result will be a department too busy to accommodate unpredictable arrivals, which are the whole reason it exists.

The difference between 1/3 and 1/4.

People thought a third of a pound was less than a quarter of a pound. After all, three is less than four!

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019/01/02/thirdsday-the-holiday-thats-33-33-better-than-any-other/