If you care about your job, your work, or even your hobbies at all, it’s not hard to imagine this scenario. You want things to go well. You want to do a good job. You want to be the person that people talk about when they think of someone dependable, professional, and impressive at the
Not everything is important. Read More »
Where were you the first time you learned that hard work didn’t directly correlate to results? That bombshell revelation that feeling busy, or even being busy, wasn’t the only prerequisite to getting your work done and done well? It can be hard for some to take. Some in your office or in your coffee shop
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We’re all guilty of it. We’re in one of those moments when we get all inspired (often at 2am on a Sunday) and make proclamations, make plans to change our lives. “This time I’m gonna do it all. Health and productivity and social life and everything else.” So we set about biting off more than
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For so many of us, the end of a work day means one thing and one thing only: collapsing on the couch. And why would we do anything else? Making it home, after a day on our feet, or running around, or stressing out, or using our brains to their maximum capacity, is an achievement
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It’s kind of remarkable how we haven’t figured things out yet. No matter how many articles or listicles or podcast clips get created about the importance of work-life balance, and restraint, and rest—how getting enough rest literally will improve our work and lives in immeasurable ways—we still spend so much of our days and lives
Burning out isn’t worth it: how to avoid it and recover from it Read More »
Meetings. We all know them as the thing we hate the most about our jobs on a biweekly or bimonthly basis. Some consider it perhaps the dumbest thing a great number of smart people around the world still do everyday. It’s remarkable how so many industries, full of supposedly industrious people, still fall back on
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It’s too prevalent a concept. It’s infected offices and workspaces the world over. Buried among all the mugs that proclaim “don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee,” and memes about “hoping this email finds you well,” you hear a consistent refrain: “I’m just not a morning person.” Those morning people are the winners,
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As you settle into your work routine each morning, you might feel some inherent optimism. “Today will be different,” you tell yourself. “This is the day that I get all the things on my list done, and then some. I’m gonna be a machine!” You get the right playlist queued up. You set yourself up
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Happy New Year, friends! It’s a pretty tired routine at this point. A new article on a productivity blog, published on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd—you could easily guess what it might be about: the fabled New Year’s Resolution. Either it’s an unironic and wholesome piece of inspirational writing about the power of belief and
Making your New Year’s resolutions stick, one last time Read More »
The end of the year can be a tough time for us productivity warriors. In a perfect world, we’d be looking back at a year of achievements and progress and, you know, being proud of ourselves. But for many of us, we spend this time worrying about how we could have been better—more organized, more
The schedule is the secret Read More »
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