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i don’t like tuesdays

Published on April 6, 2009 in Tip of the Week. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

There’s an entire cottage industry based around hating Mondays (Garfield comics, the Boomtown Rats song “I Don’t Like Mondays”) and loving Fridays (TGIFriday’s, anyone?). But according to a new study, the most stressful time of the entire workweek is … Tuesday at 11:45 AM. What?

According to the study, which was conducted in the UK:

Most workers coast through Monday getting their brain in gear and catching up with gossip from the weekend through social networking sites.

But on Tuesday reality sets in and staff spend the first part of the day going through emails they ignored on Monday before planning the week ahead.

I can kind of buy this logic, except that I spent time checking Facebook and blogs pretty much every day of the week and not just Monday. I’d be curious to see some data on what times of the week people are most likely to schedule insanely dull marathon meetings, since that was what always caused me the most stress.

why doodling is good for you

Published on March 13, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Finally, some good news – all that doodling you’ve been doing in meetings is actually beneficial. The little swirls and flowers and stick figures of your boss with knives all over his body “thought to focus the mind and stop daydreaming, allowing people to persevere with dull tasks,” according to The Daily Mail.

A recent study asked 40 men and women to listen to a long, tedious phone message listing details for a party. When quizzed later on the contents of the message, people who had doodled during the phone call were more likely to remember the names of guests, locations, and other critical details.

If you’d like to print this out and casually slip it to your boss the next time she tries to look over your shoulder and see those “notes” you’re taking during the meeting, you have my blessing.