What to do if you are type A (personality)

1. Every day, preferably while looking at yourself in a mirror, remind yourself that life is always unfinished. You are only finished when you are dead.
2. Begin in your leisure hours to listen to the conversation of other people. Stop trying to finish their sentences, never interrupt with such hurrying phrases as ‘yes, yes’, or ‘aha aha’, or ;I see, I see’ and an even better drill is to seek out a person who stutters and then deliberately remain tranquil.
3. Stop trying to think of more than one thing at a time. Remember that Einstein, when trying his shoelaces, when trying his shoelaces, thought chiefly about the bow.
4. If you see someone doing a job slower than you think you might do it, don’t interfere with him unless you are positive he can’t do the job at all. Remember that he is not suffering from ‘hurry sickness’ – you are.
5. Also, remember when faced by any task to ask yourself the following questions: Will this matter have any importance five years from now?Must I do this right now, or do I have enough time to think about the best way to accomplish it. Your established sense of time urgency will tend to make you believe that everything has to be done by yesterday. Asking questions like these brings things back into perspective.
6. It will be difficult for you ever to be a leader of men if you never say anything, but it will be impossible for you to be such a leader if you habitually utter nonsense. Make it part of your drill to ask yourself before you begin to speak: a) Do I really have anything important to say? b) Does anyone want to hear it? c) Is this the time to say it?
7. Tell yourself, at last once a day, that no enterprise ever failed because it was executed too slowly or too well.
8. Ask yourself, are good judgements and correct decisions best formulated under unhurried circumstances or under deadline pressures?
9. Whenever possible avoid making appointments at definite times. Admittedly, almost all work appointments must be made and kept at definite times but your eventual arrival time at home should be elastic. Remember, the more unnecessary deadlines you make for yourself, the worse your ‘hurry sickness’ becomes.
10. Carry reading matter with you whenever you go to the station, hairdressers or anywhere else where may be a delay so that being occupied, you won’t fret.
11. Try never to forget that if you fail to protect your allotment of time no one else will and the older you become, the more important this truth is.
12. Purposely, with a companion, frequent restaurants and theatres where you know there will be a period of waiting. If you and your companion cannot find enough to say to each other as you wait in a restaurant or theatre, then had both better seek a different companion.
13. Whenever you find yourself speeding up your car in order to get through an amber traffic light, penalise yourself by immediately turning right at the next corner, circle the block and approach the same signal light again.
14. Try to read books that demand not only your whole attention but also a certain amount of patience, such as Proust’s seven volume novel ‘ The remembrance of Things Past’ because the author needs several chapters to describe an event that most type A subjects would handle in a sentence or two.
15. Find periods each day during which you purposely seek total body relaxation and peace of mind.

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