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9 Types of Journaling and How They Can Benefit Mental and Physical Health

Success

Research has shown that writing and journaling can improve cognitive function and reduce stress and anxiety. The Videographer Tool: phone or video camera Method: Create a video diary to talk through a problem or share your thoughts on the day. Regularly reflecting on paper can bring clarity and insight into our own minds and lives.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

In 2013, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology reported a study that found students who traveled abroad showed increases in positive personality traits, including openness to experience and emotional stability. Yes, I’m the uptight stressed one, and he’s the infuriatingly open-to-whatever one. It can literally calm you.

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How to get organized for everyday disasters

Clutter Coach

When we can’t find our keys or watch and have to leave the house ten minutes ago, we get pretty stressed out. Originally posted 2013-02-27 11:31:10. Our days are full of disasters, small and large, and how we deal with them has a lot to do with our daily quality of life. Why not do the same for your keys? Losing keys?

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From the archive: The role of workplace design in employee engagement

Workplace Insight

Far fewer employees have laptops (39 percent), mobile phones (40 percent) or tablet computers (13 percent) available to them at work. It can be very stressful for employees if they have nowhere to take a personal call during the day or simply “be alone”.

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Monday Motivator: Gratitude

Office Dynamics

November 25, 2013. If we had a bad day and we happen to talk on the phone at night about it, we end our call with, “What are you grateful for?” So no matter how rough things might be or how stressful our day might have been, we always end our day on a good note by being thankful. Hello Monday Motivators! Learn more.

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Working with other assistants

Practically Perfect PA

In my recent blog on what I think Assistants can expect in 2013 I briefly discussed the relationship between assistants and how teamwork and support of each other will become more important this year. Do you only email each other or speak briefly on the phone when you need something? Working as a team. So how do we do this?

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Feeling unappreciated?

Practically Perfect PA

I’d been thinking about running an event way back in 2013 but I was too busy with other things (living in a foreign country, starting a new job and juggling Practically Perfect PA) to really do anything with the ideas I had. Even my own mother thinks I merely answer the phone and type a few letters. Seen as a secretary.

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