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

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You do release the pressure to be productive on Monday, and instead focus on planning the week, taking care of as many admin tasks as you can to set your mind free for the mid-week sprint.” Monday was the best fit to help structure the week, plan ahead, move big projects forward and foresee any roadblocks that may come up during the week.”

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On Your Mark Get Set — Recharge

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Schwartz, founder and CEO of The Energy Project, advocates for a work style based on a series of sprints rather than a marathon. And when projects are likewise broken down into smaller chunks, you can maintain high levels of focus as you conquer interim challenges. expose the problems stemming from relentless hours at the desk.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Anytime I thought about the trip or the project came up as a topic of conversation in meetings, I found myself spiraling down a path of worst-case scenarios: What if the server had put something in my food? The incident wasn’t their fault, but it occurred while I was conducting company business, and it affected my work for weeks.

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The 10 Best Goal Setting Apps to Help You Stay on Track

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It’s free for up to five personal projects but offers a Pro version with 300 personal projects and an AI assistant. Time-tracking features let you know how much time you’ve spent on a project, and you can highlight or star essential reminders. per month, $29.99 per year or $79.99 for a lifetime subscription.

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New Year’s Resolutions, Pacing Oneself, and Staying Curious

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I have one project that is well underway in making things, with my own two hands. And I’m incorporating and thinking about spiritual and health goals too, all the while of being mindful to pace myself and be realistic of what is do-able. So this year, I am trying to slow down the pace to marathon, not sprinting.

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Andrew Filev Founder Of Wrike | Reclaiming Lost Productivity & Improving Workplace Culture

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About this episode Andrew Filev was running a successful micro multinational company in 2000 and adopted an agile methodology to speed up the projects. So, I oversaw about 20 projects, 20 customer engagements at the same time. Despite this, it was challenging to keep up with the pace of the workload. It’s not a blame game.

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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!’” She kept the project secret for a year. I needed the income and the security and the insurance and the health benefits and all that. I didn’t want to quit my job.

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