I will reveal it promptly. Pay attention. It’s profound, yet simple, so once you…
Not written by the Stanford Guide author. Written by and all credit to JL. This is great advice, and not following it can damage your reputation in a way that can be hard to recover.
We’re overjoyed to see your positive feedback on our Mail Merge updates. Because you loved that update, we know you’ll love some brand new updates to our Snippets feature! With the improvements, it’s never been easier to use Snippets to save time and sanity for repetitive emails…
Experience doesn’t come easy. It accumulates over the years as we learn, grow, make mistakes, and find the…
Over the course of my career, I’ve developed three foundational hypotheses about unaddressed needs in collaboration:
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We are living in a very interesting era where everything changes in a blink of an eye…
Life is chaotic. You’ve got a gazillion meetings between 7am and 8pm every day…
“Automation is to your time exactly what compound interest is to your…
Here’s a fairly reliable productivity hack if you’ve picked up the latest self-help, management theory or sweeping sociological interpretation of our times: only read the second chapter because it routinely…
Life is stressful, guys!
As you read these words, is part of you wondering if you’ve got time to read them? Are you…
The biggest breakthrough for me was realizing that I was putting due dates on things that didn’t actually have due dates. For example, I’d put “Friday” as a due date on a task that I wanted to get done by the end of the week; but that task didn’t actually need to get done this week, it’s just a preference or a personal imperative. The result is that…
Well said.
It starts at the beginning and ensuring that expectations are aligned all around. A lot can be gained be focusing more on employee productivity as opposed to hours worked.
Running effective meetings with all your colleagues in a room or with top executives…
When I noticed short stories were serving as an excuse to procrastinate on my novella…
Stress. The one thing that can somehow make you work faster and think slower at the same time.
Things 3 is a VERY exciting and aesthetically pleasing replacement for the default Reminders app. With a lot of improvements that make your life easier. But don’t mistake it for a *real* project management tool. It’s not that and I have a feeling it hasn’t been designed for that purpose.
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” — Vincent…
Growing up in an East coast tourist town, it is common to see post cards of your…
Humans are social creatures, and with the widespread use of social media platforms, it seems that people…
Xnote was a tool that let you annotate articles from the web and share them. I worked on this project for the first 7 months of 2015. I found a doc full of notes from those days. Here’s a summary.
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Pelo que me lembro, desde que comecei a usar Chrome tenho alguma extensão instalada…
Finding the time to simply plan your schedule can be tricky especially when juggling work or home priorities, this can be even more difficult if you run your own business or work from home. Here I look at ways to become a time ninja and…
Freelancing is more than just getting the job done. Freelancers are known as great hustlers. You…
My friends lovingly know me as the girl who never answers her phone. I don’t know if it’s because…
Ok, this may not be the best blog idea since it’s topic is more introspective but I’m aiming at uncovering a destructive habit within myself while also publishing a blog. I’ll argue that you may very well be suffering from a similar unconscious bias and…
Do you find unique ways to “upcycle” random objects by accumulating a collection…
I write this in a pomodoro break.
Although you may not access System Preferences very often, keeping it at your fingertips saves you much time and effort. In this post, we`ll show how to access settings…
Evaluating any platform for your business is a challenge. Will we benefit from this? Will we ALL benefit from…
The Internet is a fun place to see what are things that I should be doing in order to be successful and extraordinary. And yet here I am doing none of those!
“You know what needs to be done, you know how it can be done, what’s stopping you?”
November 7, 2017
I’ve been waking up at exactly 7:00am ever since Sunday. Before that, I would wake up around 8–8:30am. Of course, 7:00am Sunday, accounting for Daylight Saving Time, is really 8:00am, so “physically”, nothing has changed…
Just under a month ago we launched Kiree. It felt scary, like we were standing in a auditorium full of people, naked, we put it out there for the world to see… waiting for reactions, comments and as expected criticism. Not surprisingly, that’s exactly…
Bippity Boppity Boo! A new dress and a free night out. Even uber is not that good!
Sometimes we go through our days as freelancers and online entrepreneurs secretly expecting our fairy Godmother to show up…
I wake up every morning, and my mind is racing.
Perfectionists of this type will have a file cabinet drawer (or numerous) filled with "practically ideal" tasks with which the writer has actually lost interest. The writing sits there and molds, doing no one any great.I encourage my coaching…
When I read that part about “battling through the thick, grasping vines of our jungle minds,” my jaw unclenched in amazement — you mean I’m not the only one with a jungle mind?? This is wonderful news. Alarming , but wonderful. I’m so glad I read this, I’m all set now — even the monkey chatter has stopped… : )
If you feel overwhelmed by your to-do list, it may be time to consider delegating your projects…
Feel overwhelmed with too many ideas?
You control the effort, not the outcome.
Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, “I’ve never had a problem…
Simple advise, yet effective. Makes sense. Thank you. Going to follow a few of them.
I totally agree. Good habits may help, but are not what will change your life toward success. I’ve experienced first hand that if you let them upstage your decisions (the hard ones) you won’t go anywhere.
Wall mount on Everybody hates those little bumps left in your t-shirt by hangers. All of us have actually attempted unsuccessfully to get them out by putting water on them, ironing them. Nothing works. Now, you never need to…
Growing up there has always been this pressure to ‘make something’ of yourself. An invisible power watching your every move and all types of media reinforcing and romanticising things like running your own business, not working for anyone etc.
To look ahead to improving oneself, identifying areas to improve upon, is a good thing. But enforcing it in a linear fashion is not . Instead, these should be implemented as waves .
Taking up and releasing them in a continuous manner , allowing them to fall in sync on its own. More often it is seen it generating momentum sooner than you think.
Great Ildiko glad it worked for you, thanks for the note 😃
This is another funny cartoon that we found on the web ^_^. Do any of you remember the most famous keyboard shortcut of all time (still ranking the #1 on the mocking list though)? It’s “Ctrl + Alt + Del”… which is when your windows computers froze for some reasons that you can use to…
In a time where new information is flying out every second, demanding our attention, guaranteeing a 30% increase in conversions, in the form of emails, eBooks and paperbacks, it’s far too easy to feel…
Good word Nancy! Thanks for following along!
Brian — I’m 100% right there with you, man. When I’m feeling bad and struggling to feel good, I remind myself of the following quote. It doesn’t necessarily pull me out of my rut immediately, but it helps me to realize that I’m in control. Not my emotions. Not how I feel.
Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his…
Oh, yes! Daily writing may be ok (not for me) but we shouldn’t neglect more “thoughtful” writing, else our writing shrinks.
Thanks for the mention! Good piece!
Took a short break, back to it.
We are certainly moving to a different way of thinking around the rules of work. From my POV I can see that I have hugely productive and less productive days when working from any location so I do t see a productivity argument carrying any weight. In general, with the obvious exceptions you mention, I agree that we need this capability and should…
