Simply sit in the car for a few minutes, walk the dog, play with your children, or take a warm shower to wash off the day, Dr. Rechtschaffen suggests. Developing rituals like these will help you shift gears. Don't surf the channels. Television is probably one of the worst choices for winding down, says Jeff Davidson, executive director of the Breathing Space Institute in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Channel surfing and other habits you develop while watching television actually can make it harder for you shift into a slower time frame, he says.
Television is an extremely fast paced medium.
I know that when I watch it, it gets my heart racing and my skin gets tense. Going For years, time was Tony Alessandra's enemy. A marketing consultant and professional speaker, Alessandra was constantly trying to squeeze 30 hours of professional and personal life into every 24-hour day. He would think nothing of flying to Boston on a Thursday evening, giving a speech on a Friday morning, dashing home to San Diego for his son's soccer game on a Saturday afternoon, then rushing to the airport to catch a plane so that he could be in Orlando for a convention on a Sunday. In all, he was on the road more than 150 days a year, working 12 to 15 hours a day.