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The Holiday Blues Are Normal—These 8 Tips from Experts Can Help You Better Manage Difficult Emotions

Success

professor of behavioral sciences at Northeastern University in Boston and author of Reset: Make the Most of Your Stress. Although the lead-up to the holidays can be stressful, studies indicate that the days and weeks immediately following a big celebration are the toughest. Watch out for the post-holiday blues.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

A 2015 article in The Atlantic titled “For a More Creative Brain, Travel” argued that traveling and soaking up foreign experiences increases cognitive flexibility, an important part of creativity. You can see long-term projects in an all-new light. Yes, I’m the uptight stressed one, and he’s the infuriatingly open-to-whatever one.

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Would You Give Your Staff the ‘Immersive Treatment’?

Allwork

Augmented reality – reality is fused with the virtual world where digital, interactive components are projected into the real world via a HMD. . The John Lewis Design Project VR experience is just one example where shoppers can see what their items may look like in their homes. . This is not a new concept.

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The What, Who and How of Outsourcing… So You Can Let Go

Success

If you go the virtual route, you’ll find virtual bookkeeping services and phone-answering services, and you could even hire a virtual assistant to help you outsource, suggests Paula Rizzo, who covers outsourcing in her book Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Successful and Less Stressed. I use it with my interns for my blog.

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Create Your Professional Development Plan Free Webinar

Office Dynamics

Upcoming professional development events at little to no cost: As Office Dynamics International celebrates our 25th Anniversary in 2015 we will offer a free webinar each month. Outline of Webinar: Development of Your Professional Plan.

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Perfectionism or Death

Clutter Coach

This New York Times article describes how being a perfectionist can lead to mental health problems and even suicide, not to mention garden variety unhappiness and stress. In the areas of time management and organizing, I see people abandoning or not taking on projects at all because they don’t believe they can do them perfectly.

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How big a deal is 1.5°C vs. 2°C of global warming? Significant — here’s why

Ideas.Ted

The essential goal of the Paris agreement of 2015 has been to limit the rise in average global temperatures to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels — a time period centered roughly on the mid-19th century. C increase, sea levels are projected to rise by 2100 by 0.26 C (an increase of 1.5°C C = about 2.7°F With a 1.5°C

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