When you’re overwhelmed, everything feels faster. Everything feels heavier. Unimportant things feel vital. And important things now feel like the end of the world. We’ve all been there, and sometimes, it’s a legitimate feeling. Stressors are real. The stakes can be high, and our lives and jobs can hang in the balance. But if the
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The conscious and active pursuit of a productive and healthy life invariably includes reflection, self-examination, and experimentation. From time to time we should look at our systems and tools and evaluate them for just how well they are serving us in our work. And if a hot new life hack lands and takes the town
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This one may feel like a bit of a higher concept, but just go with me here. This is a mindset change that helped me reframe my perspective with my own work, and hopefully it will do the same for you. Luckily, it’s actually pretty simple. If you’re like me, and have the freedom to
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We’re all about zen these days. We’re all about cleaner, leaner calendars, and making time to breathe, and walk, and do our yoga routines. And for good reason—that balance, and those types of activities, are objectively positive, and enrich our lives. But sometimes our lives have trouble catching up with our ambitions. We place our
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Today, we focus on the starting point. You sit at your desk to work in the morning, and you’re immediately confronted by a welcoming committee—the mess you left on your desk yesterday. There could be papers strewn about, or last night’s cups or plates or takeout containers piled on top of your keyboard. The pen
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It’s not always possible to be “in the right headspace” for work. In fact, more often than not, you’re probably nowhere near the right headspace for the work you have to do. Maybe you’re feeling sad. Or maybe there’s something in your life that’s interfering with your focus. And, of course, it’s more than likely
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I just reset my email. Took my unread count down to zero. Archived or deleted everything that was sitting in my inbox. And everything feels different now. More than any other possible binary the world presents us, I believe there are precisely two types of people in this world: those whose unread email count sits
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It’s the fourth week of the year. If you are one of the brave masses who chose to commit to a New Year’s Resolution this year, you’re nearing your first true checkpoint. And it’s a legitimate achievement. Doing a month of anything, especially something that’s likely not very fun, is a deeply impressive feat, and
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It was a tough year. Was 2021 a tougher year than 2020? Somehow, depending on your situations, it feels as though the odds are pretty good that it was. And whether it was tough for you or not, 2021 also felt like a particularly eventful year, where your life might have changed in one or
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It’s a shame that so many of us went through school thinking that some people were better at school than others. That some people had better focus than others. Or even that some people were smarter than other people. But the truth is, you’re not “stuck” with the brain you’re given when you’re born. Our
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