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How Parents Feel About Remote and Hybrid Work Being Here to Stay

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In the course of writing this very article, my preschooler has come into my office (despite another caregiver being home) not once but four times. Keeping parents happy might be as simple as allowing them to block out drop-off and pickup times from day care or school in their calendars, and other simple compromises.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

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So this year after I went through the Yearly Words exercise – something I feature in my “anytime” annual planning program The NOW Year Action Plan Course – I decided to use the same three words from 2017 in 2018. I decided to make one resolution for this calendar year: To be more resolute.

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The 3 Ingredients Of A Minimalist Productivity Workflow

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Over the course of a month, I’ll give emphasis to a specific project. Weekly Sprints allow you to focus your tasks on a project or goal over the course of a week rather than a month. I do this in various ways through “time theming.” Whenever I do this, I know I have a greater chance of completing the project at hand.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

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She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” And I went, ‘Uh-huh, of course.’ And I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, of course I can,’” she says. “Everywhere I go with him, he gets flashed, too!”

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