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.
A lot of the productivity content out there, from videos and books to seminars and blogs, including the ones you read here at RescueTime, seem to operate off the assumption that we’re all freelancers with wide open schedules. They act like we all have the time to build in jam-packed morning and evening routines, and […]
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People say it all the time. Experts say it too. In fact, it’s said often enough, by so many people, that over the years it’s begun to feel commonplace and maybe even trite to our ears. But you know it’s true. Very simply: Exercise makes your life better in, like, a million different ways. Exercising
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When you like what you do and care about doing it well, it’s easy to get caught in cycles. It’s easy to not stop working, and to feel like that’s the right thing to do. And it’s fun, instead, to go in the other direction, and to look for ways to optimize and supplement and
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Despite New Year’s resolutions being a huge part of our culture (even the ancient Babylonians made annual promises to their gods 4000 years ago), we’re notoriously bad at sticking with them.
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By becoming a digital minimalist, you’re able to rebuild your relationship with technology so that it serves you. Not the other way around.
We’ve all experienced moments where we feel overwhelmed with work. But this past year–between dealing with the pandemic, working from home, and high levels of global uncertainty–’feeling overwhelmed’ has gone from a momentary annoyance to an incessant menace.
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Between video chat happy hours, birthdays, catch-ups with friends and family, and all-day work meetings, it can feel like we spend all day on camera.
When it comes to choosing how many work hours in a month you should work, it’s less about “how much” and more about “how often”.
According to our latest survey, the traditional “workday” is dead. Out of 850+ knowledge workers from around the globe, 92% admit they regularly working in the evenings and on weekends.
Just like your body needs time to recuperate after a hard workout, your mind needs time to unplug and disconnect from the workday. But if long days are inevitable, what can you do to properly wind down, unplug, and recover?
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