Sentences with phrase «minutes of the day in»

Rather than trying to rigidly control the minutes of the day in order to be productive, give yourself a wide fence.

We had seven vehicles assigned to us every minute of the day in Nigeria, plus an eighth backup car, and lengthy detail sheets explaining where everybody was, is now and will be.

There are more than eight live births every minute of the day in the United States.

I spend the first 15 minutes of the day in the empty office doodling, listening to music, and thinking about what I need to do that day.

Or two people die every minute of the day in an automobile.

Not exact matches

Since the arrival of the consumer Internet, it's become axiomatic in the media industry that a news site should be updated whenever there is news — in other words, every minute of every day.

Entrepreneur Associate Editor Hayden Field even went so far as to try Musk's routine of scheduling his day in five - minute blocks to see whether it would help her stay on - task throughout the day, and you can read about her experiences here.

For example, violinists destined to become professional soloists practiced an average of 3.5 hours per day, typically in three separate sessions of 60 - 90 minutes each.

I take 30 minutes each morning to block out, in 15 - minute chunks, the entirety of my day and what I hope to get done.

I did have to take an 80 to 90 minute walk a couple of days to make sure I got my steps in, but that's okay.

Pay attention to how you spend each minute of your workday and look for areas where you can improve; I recommend installing a time - tracking app that will run in the background, gathering data on your activities each day and reporting it back to you.

Twice a week, in a fifteen - minute live program only available on CNBC.com, prominent traders focus on how to trade the news of the day using futures.

But if you can, build in 15 minutes at the end of the day to put everything back where it belongs.»

Using the app takes about five minutes each day: participants in our experiment log in to Plasticity's online platform, pick a number out of 100 to rate their happiness level that day and post a brief note about something they're grateful for at work.

A 2016 study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity showed that hourly five - minute walking breaks boosted energy levels, sharpened focus, and «improved mood throughout the day and reduced feelings of fatigue in the late afternoon.»

Research from the Department of Kinesiology at Southern Illinois University showed that as little as three 11 - minute intense strength - training sessions a week resulted in an increase in fat burn at rest, and a chronic increase in energy expenditure throughout the day.

A study published in May found that for adults aged 60 - 88, walking for 30 minutes four days a week for 12 weeks appeared to strengthen connectivity in a region of the brain where weakened connections have been linked with memory loss.

Clear your workspace as you go through tasks, and give yourself a few minutes at the end of each day to make sure everything is in its place before leaving the office.

In the first eight minutes of the big day, Nov. 11, Alibaba sold $ 1 billion; by day's end the total was $ 14.3 billion.

We all wake up in the morning with the same exact number of hours, minutes, and seconds in a day.

There's no such thing as a bad time to quit Facebook, a website that takes 40 minutes per day of its average user's productive time in exchange for access to other people's badly composed baby photos and half - baked political opinions.

Those were the days of checking my phone every minute, of saying yes to everything offered to me even when I knew in my gut I didn't want to do it.

«Steve, of everyone I've known in life, could be the most avid proponent of some position and within minutes or days if new information came up you would think he'd never, ever thought that before -LSB-...] He was a pro at this,» says Cook.

What you do in the first 10 minutes of your workday can largely determine how productive and effective you'll be the rest of the day.

Customers buy three to four times as many books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for reading.

The key is to create an individualized plan that works for you based on all the factors at hand — available minutes in the day, amount of sleep required and work commute.

Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of HP, shared that the point is to «turn data into information, information into knowledge and insight, and knowledge into competitive advantage, and to do it in a matter of minutes or seconds, not days or weeks.»

Thankfully, you can reap the benefits of mindfulness in as little as a few minutes a day.

In America, docs seem to be happy to chat as long as you want — and you can tell that extra couple of minutes with each patient creates long delays as the day wears on.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.»

According to the study of 715 parents, every hour of touchscreen use results in 15.6 minutes less of sleep, or 26.4 minutes less total per night and 10.8 minutes more during the day, on average.

If your days feel monotonous and this hits home, one key to turning things around might lie in the first 10 minutes of your work day.

In fact, to this day I probably spend 50 percent of my time just learning and testing new ideas, and I get paid for every minute of it.

The hour of the day, minutes in a slide and when your idea will pay off will determine whether you'll see any money.

Download any of the leading brain training apps, and you'll be well on your way in just a few minutes a day.

The hardest aspect of my job as an executive coach is trying to get CEOs such as William and Rachel to sit still for 20 minutes a day in quiet, contemplative thought.

«It isn't a massive amount when you're sleeping 10 to 12 hours a day in total, but every minute matters in young development because of the benefits of sleep,» study co-author Dr. Tim Smith told the BBC.

The standard workday in the United States is eight hours, which is 480 minutes, and many of us work something closer to 600 a day.

In each of its participating cities, Uber partners with a couple restaurants each day to offer meals to its customers, which the company delivers via courier within just a few minutes.

«Each morning for the past 15 years, I've carved out the first 15 minutes of my day to hand write my «top five» for the day — the things that I need to get done to move my larger goals forward — on a new page in a bound notebook.

Still, from the minute it learned WeatherTech was doing a Super Bowl ad, Americaneagle.com went into research and testing mode, not only estimating just how much extra traffic WeatherTech would get on February 2 and the days afterward but also testing the site to see where bottlenecks existed that might cause problems in the event of a huge traffic spike.

The software would then transform it into a fully rendered 3 - D model in a matter of minutes or hours instead of days or weeks.

I'd rather spend 20 minutes talking to one of my kids about a bike trip or a dating relationship than accomplish something great in the workplace these days.

Getting in 30 minutes of exercise a day helps keep you mentally sharp.

Confirmed in a tweet by the candidate late Tuesday, the trip was organized in the last several days, with aides to the candidate and the Mexican leader working until the final minutes before the announcement to iron out the details for a visit that would normally require weeks of protocol and security planning.

Take just a few minutes out of your day to watch this short trailer announcing Firsts, a multi-media project from TIME featuring candid interviews with 45 extraordinary women, more than a year in the making.

Studies show that as little as five minutes of exercise a day can be beneficial in reducing stress and adding years to your lifespan, but 10 minutes is even better.

His book, released in January, promises to get you moving like you used to by spending just 10 minutes a day working through a sequence of movements based on a combination of stretches and gymnastics.

In order to see maximum results, Rayman suggested I follow a 15 - minute program of the DB Cardio Sculpt routine (10 minutes) followed by one set of Founder Fave (five minutes) every day for two weeks straight.