Workplace wellbeing: 5-minute breaks, Friday 'dead time' — how to get smart with your time 

When psychologist Amantha Imber realised work was dominating her life, she started a podcast to get advice from some of the world's most successful people
Workplace wellbeing: 5-minute breaks, Friday 'dead time' — how to get smart with your time 

No matter who you are or the resources you have available there are one or two strategies that will help you feel more in control of your days

I've been struggling to manage my time lately. Struggling to the extent that I’ve been fantasising about an episode of the Twilight Zone I watched in my teens. It was about a woman with a device that could pause the world. 

Huh, thought teenage me, imagine what I could do with that. Almost three decades later, as I try to balance a busy working life with the demands of a family, what wouldn’t I give to be able to catch up with my to-do list while everyone else remained frozen in time?

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