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

Success

That’s when parenting pressures increase, child care expenses go up and there’s a lack of endemic support in the workplace,” Hobbs says. This frees up busy parents to settle in after their kids’ bedtime, or before they wake up, to crank out their creative work. really any different than 10 p.m.

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What Is ‘Bare Minimum Monday’ and Will It Work for You?

Success

And then I get to decide how to spend the rest of my Monday, and that usually looks something like self-care or doing something that would set me up to have a really good rest of the week …. There was a common theme bubbling up across the agency of, ‘I need time to do the actual work.’ She says it’s working.

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How To Be As Productive As Possible When You’re Sick

Productivityist

You may even want to set up your email autoresponder to let people know they won’t receive a response for a few days. By working ahead you can give yourself some breathing room in your calendar and stay more productive over the long-term. Ask for a deadline extension or to reschedule a meeting. Build Yourself A Buffer.

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How to become a Type-A maniacal entrepreneur 

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Think of life (and especially work) as a series of sprints. The first key to maniacal focus is a fundamental shift in the way you look at your life, your work and your calendar. You’ll split up the hours in a day between these competing priorities in an effort to try to do it all. They’ll make up for all the neglect.

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How to become a Type-A maniacal entrepreneur 

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Think of life (and especially work) as a series of sprints. The first key to maniacal focus is a fundamental shift in the way you look at your life, your work and your calendar. You’ll split up the hours in a day between these competing priorities in an effort to try to do it all. They’ll make up for all the neglect.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

Productivityist

I decided to make one resolution for this calendar year: To be more resolute. I’m going to be more resolute with my Weekly Sprints, seeing that they override the Monthly Theme and allowing me to focus intensely on the subject of the sprint over the 7 days of the week.

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The 3 Ingredients Of A Minimalist Productivity Workflow

Productivityist

For example, if I’m trying to align tasks up for a long-term project, I’ll use a Monthly Theme to accomplish that. Weekly Sprints allow you to focus your tasks on a project or goal over the course of a week rather than a month. Setting up this kind of workflow isn’t something that takes hold overnight.

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