When it comes to organizing your work and staying productive, there are different levels to look at. For instance: planning out your goals, reviewing your work, and organizing your calendar. Today I want to look at some tips for organizing your work and getting things done on a daily level. Before we dive in… Time management […]
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Open-plan offices are a favorite among business owners and managers, due to their low cost. In fact, open-plan offices have been shown to reduce building costs by up to 20%. They’re also touted as being beneficial for spontaneous connections with coworkers and encouraging collaboration. But talk to employees who work in open-plan offices and you’ll
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I recently covered some tips to help you wrangle your calendar, but there’s another necessary evil many of us struggle to keep a handle on: email. As Shani Harmon writes at HBR, “We’ll spend hours polishing our LinkedIn profiles and revising our résumés, but hastily hit send on an unintelligible missive simply because we’re in
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Our interview series asks developers, designers, and other knowledge workers to share their favorite productivity tools and techniques, and how they overcome struggles like procrastination and distraction. Read all our interview posts here. First up, can you tell us who you are and what you do? Sure! My name is Brennan Banta and I am
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Being productive, working on the right things, and not letting busywork take over your day often comes down to how you schedule your work. As productivity expert Cal Newport says, scheduling your week in advance “allows you to spread out, batch, and prioritize work in a manner that significantly increases what you accomplish and goes
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Side projects can help you create things for the fun of it, learn new skills, or even start new streams of income. But it can be difficult to find the time and motivation to move forward on these projects in your spare time. Try these tips to make sure your side projects don’t get lose
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Our interview series asks developers, designers, and other knowledge workers to share their favorite productivity tools and techniques, and how they overcome struggles like procrastination and distraction. Read all our interview posts here. First up, can you tell us who you are and what you do? I’m Matthew Guay, senior writer and editor on the
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We’ve already discussed how important meaningful work is—It makes us more engaged at work, happier in the long-term, and even wealthier. But “meaningful” work means different things to different people. To help find what work matters the most to you, you need to start somewhere else: Your purpose. Before we dive in… Your purpose decides what you
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Every time I read something about how much notifications are taking over our lives, I tone down my phone and turn off alerts for all my social media accounts. But somehow, by the next time I come across an article or study about our addiction to notifications, a bunch of them have crept back into
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We’ve come to revere busyness, and to see it as being an indicator of high status. But busyness is harmful to our productivity and our health (and can even lead to things as horrible as burnout syndrome). It’s not something to aim for or be proud of. If you’re struggling with busyness and need to
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