Our success depends on so much more than just what we do during our working hours. Doing meaningful work means finding a work life balance between being ‘on’ and being ‘off’—a seemingly simple idea, but one that almost all of us struggle with. Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to find work life balance, no matter what you do.
With the U.S. elections just a handful of days away, it’s too easy to get caught up in all things political. You might opt for a quick check on your favorite news site and then realize you spent an hour looking through the most recent poll results or watching town hall meetings. For some people, […]
Balancing Work and Civic Duty: How to Stay Productive During Voting Season Read More »
World Mental Health Day was last week, and this year’s theme probably resonates with most of us. It is time to prioritize mental health in the workplace. According to the World Health Organization, almost 1 in 5 adults experience a mental health condition each year. If you feel like your mental health has taken a
Honoring World Mental Health Day: 6 Ways Time Management Supports Your Mental Health Read More »
If you’ve spent any time consuming productivity content in the last few years, you’ve likely been exposed to “digital minimalism” rhetoric. It’s all these proclamations that claim to be the be-all-and-end-all of healthy ways to navigate a world increasingly uncomfortably surrounded by screens. Monitoring screen time like a hawk. Keeping your phone in your pocket
Digital minimalism, again, for real Read More »
You may have lied to yourself like this before: “My desk isn’t clean—I couldn’t possibly start working.” “After I fold the laundry and do the dishes, I’ll feel better. Then I can get started.” “This isn’t the office of someone who is successful at work.” The beliefs we allow to limit us are often some
Let creativity be messy Read More »
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 »
Typically when you think of “mindfulness” and “meditation,” you think of a dim space lit with candles, a quiet room—turning your phone off and throwing it across the room. (While you do this, you imagine yourself throwing it off a mountain at the monastery where you’re learning to eschew earthly possessions.) The phone, and screens
You and your mind are not alone Read More »
Generation Z, or as they’ve come to affectionately be called, Zoomers, might just be the best of all of us. Or at least, they have the potential to be the best. You see them on TikTok, making videos that waste no time delivering funny, poignant, or otherwise entertaining moments. In those videos where they need
Productivity Hacks for Generation Z: Balancing Work, Studies, and Personal Life Read More »
Time for perhaps our simplest and most impactful advice ever.
Something that will improve not only your productivity, but also your health, mood, longevity, and your general overall happiness.
Three things: Sleep. Diet. Exercise.
Three simple fixes that could change your life. Read More »
A few weeks ago was the halfway point of the year. Fifty percent of the year gone, and 50 percent left to go. A nice moment to pause and reflect, as we often like to do, about how well we’ve been doing on our individual journeys. The funny thing is, I didn’t even realize it
Who cares about arbitrary milestones? Read More »
We all get overwhelmed. It’s an unavoidable facet of modern life—our priorities get out of balance. Recently, it’s felt like I’m doomed to stay overwhelmed all the time, when it used to be the occasional exception to longer periods of calm. Being this overwhelmed doesn’t feel like a healthy or happy way to live. I
Meditation can save more than just your worklife Read More »
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