--- title: Extraordinary Living Blog | Achieve Success in Work and Life | Narath Carlile description: "Narath Carlile is a physician, educator, innovator, speaker and consultant who works to further human flourishing through many channels including health/care, data science, sustainable productivity, and cognitive high performance.\n\nConcerned by rising rates of disengagement and burnout among professionals across sectors, he founded MakeTimeFlow with Heli Tuomi as a platform for developing and furthering \"more powerful and humane\" work practices - using performance-boosting time, focus, and flow skills. \n\nMakeTimeFlow helps individuals and teams transform ineffective and burnout-inducing work processes into high-impact productivity. Narath designs and leads the training, harnessing the latest research from neuroscience and psychology to generate improved outcomes for people first and foremost, and by extension, their organizations. \n\nNarath is also board-certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, and is an Internist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and a lecturer in the Clinical Informatics and Innovation Fellowship. He has additional expertise in Global Health, Social Equity, and Health Innovation. \n\nPreviously, Narath was involved in a number of informatics projects including developing an open source paging system for hospitals in Africa, mobile decision support for community health workers in Mexico, interactive voice response systems and billing systems for medical clinics, team evaluation tools for the federal government of Canada and educational software used internationally. More recently, he served as Chief Medical Officer and Chief Information Officer for ACT.md where he worked to advance collaborative care within communities of need. He also previously served as a director of engineering, and as the director of a software development center.\n\nNarath holds a Bachelor of Pure and Applied Science (Honors) in computer science from York University, a Medical Doctorate from Dartmouth, and a Master of Public Health from Harvard. He completed his medical training in Internal Medicine, Global Health and Social Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.\n\nHe is recipient of many awards, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award and the Excellence in Medicine American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award, and a member of the Alpha Omega Medical Honor Society and the Gold Humanism in Medicine Honor Society. 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I’ve been really good this week at practicing**time...** [![](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/hubfs/feature-articles.jpg)](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/blog/the-surprising-gifts-of-planning-well) [Articles](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/blog/tag/articles) ### [The surprising gifts of planning well](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/blog/the-surprising-gifts-of-planning-well) ![Picture of Narath Carlile](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Narath-Carlile-Founder.jpeg?width=50&name=Narath-Carlile-Founder.jpeg) [Narath Carlile](https://www.cognitivehighperformance.com/blog/author/narath-carlile) This week I tried really hard to plan well, driven by the very stressful week that had just... 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