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Avoid Over-Planning with #Now, #Next, and #Later Deadlines
Getting ideas off the ground requires careful planning; having a plan in the first place improves your chances for success.
Avoid Regret with a Weekly Work/Life Check-In
A palliative nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and put her findings into a book called The Top Five Regrets of The Dying.
If You’re Not Learning Something New, It’s Time to Move On
If you think you’re going to work at your current job for more than three years, think again.
2 Emails That Can Shrink Your Workload By 20%
Parkinson’s Law states that work “expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Is This Meeting Necessary?
Incredible things can happen when great minds meet. Unfortunately, most meetings are anything but great.
How to Let a Client Know If You’re Overwhelmed
As a creative professional, one of the primary benefits that you offer your client is expanded capacity.
For Big Ideas: Spend 30% of Your Time Living in the Future
Big ideas rarely reveal themselves to you when you’re stuck in a reactive workflow.
Don’t Waste the Tiny Gaps in Your Schedule
So stop looking at those 30-minute gaps in your day as empty space.
How to Never Be Late Again
Are you always showing up 5 to 10 minutes late to things despite your best intentions?
The 3-Minute Solution to Procrastination
Think about one small action you can take in the next three minutes that will move your project forward.
Use the 52/17 Rule to Maximize Productivity
The human body isn’t designed to sit for eight hours at a stretch.
Take Back the Lunch Break
Do you eat your lunch in front of your computer? Or skip lunch and eat in a rush between meetings?
If You’re Not 90% Sure about Something, Don’t Bother
Your calendar is virtually airtight, and your to-do list is filled to the brim. Yet, there it is: a new passion project/a new intriguing industry event/an alluring committee invitation — something you know that you simply don’t have the capacity for.
Prioritize Better by Asking the Focusing Question
What’s the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
How To Navigate Difficult Conversations
Sooner or later you will have a difficult conversation with your team.
The Worst Stage of Burnout: “Brownout”
While we might be able to successfully recognize the symptoms of burnout, we’re often oblivious to the alternative: a more deeper, obscured type of fatigue that afflicts successful, high-performing creatives.
Break Your New Year’s Resolutions Into 90-Day Chunks
Think about the long-term goals that you’ve set for yourself this year. When you will know that you’ve achieved them?
Didn’t Sleep Last Night? Here’s How to Survive the Workday.
In the wise words of Winston Churchill: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Give a Better Reply Than “I’m Busy”
If you were asked how your day has been, there’s a good chance that you’d include the word “busy” somewhere in your answer.