Joe Robinson: Slow Down: How to Break Free of 'Time Urgency'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-robinson/speed-kills-the-stress-mo_b_801430.html?ir=Divorce=pulse=direct

"Chronic clock-consciousness makes you want to book up every second with something productive, which squeezes out living time. There's no time for an impromptu conversation with a significant other or friend, or give some new activity a try, because there can't be any deviation from mechanical momentum. When time panic is at the controls, you can never be fully available to anyone or any moment. Type As are particularly wracked by time urgency, which can make relationships very difficult. They're usually on their way somewhere other than where you are most of the time, since it's the clock, not the content of what they're doing, that's the priority."