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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

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This four-hour period consists of a recurring ultradian rhythm, which is like a 90-minute mental sprint followed by a five- to 20-minute mental recovery. Loney recommends developing a habit she calls “deep work sprints” that can help you make the most of the first half of your workday. From 3-10 p.m.

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Glenn Sanford Built a Billion-Dollar Business on a Foundation of Simply Never Giving Up

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And so in business, creating a regular cadence—quarterly, weekly—that people can trust helps set up for the next sprint. . You may review quarterly and go, “Hey, this was our goal here. We’ll make the commitments at the beginning of the quarter to work on things, but toward the end of the quarter, there’s a tendency to get complacent.

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The Daily CT Scan: The Best Way To Start Your Day

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Weekly Sprints. Common Horizontal Themes include exercise, morning and evening routines, email review, and social media updating. It’s a four-week program that is designed to help you build better boundaries, design and define your days, funnel your focus, and review and refine your daily workflow. Daily Themes. Monthly Themes.

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My Three Words for 2018 (and a Single Resolution)

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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. I’m going to be more resolute with my Monthly Themes, ensuring that I give them my overarching focus during those 28-day to 31-day spans of time.

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4 Simple Steps for Creating Your Strategic Marketing Action Plan (MAP)

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Heart of your business – your MAP is not a document that you create, look at once, and then set aside to review in a year’s time. As my financial adviser reminded me just last week, you’re running a marathon not a sprint, and the same is true for your business also. Click here for immediate access.

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The 3 Ingredients Of A Minimalist Productivity Workflow

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Weekly Sprints allow you to focus your tasks on a project or goal over the course of a week rather than a month. Friday is my Deep Work Day so the task “Review Drafts for blog post ideas” is aligned with deep work and therefore is aligned to Fridays. Daily Themes allow you to align your tasks to a specific day (or set of days).

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Productivity as a Process

Productivityist

Collect, Process, Organize, Review and Do. I make the time for a weekly review and mini daily reviews to scan all that I have going on or coming up. I use its Three Important Things for today, this week, this month, along with its Monthly Sprints to help me focus. That led me to Getting Things Done by David Allen.

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