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I Tried Napping Every Day for a Month—Here’s What I Learned About Toxic Hustle Culture

Success

I set daily alarms on my phone so I wouldn’t forget to sleep, or worse, make the mistake of oversleeping. A 2018 study published in the Nature of Science and Sleep Journal found that high sleep latency (increasing minutes) indicates poor sleep health. I can feel the blue light from my phone threatening my sleep most nights.

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This Is How You Can Get Better at Reading People

Success

It also includes every way you communicate, whether it’s in person, by phone, by email, by text or on social media. This article originally appeared in the February 2018 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. That includes everyone, whether it’s an audience, a colleague, your spouse, your kids or a customer.

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The Cost of Remote Work in a Technology-Centered World

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A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. The breakdown of work-life balance.

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Why Traveling the World Is the Best Investment in Yourself

Success

When the day-to-day grind seems stressful, we can close our eyes and go back to that rocky landscape in Iceland, back to that quaint green pasture in Ireland, back to a moment we had in a restaurant in Barcelona. Yes, I’m the uptight stressed one, and he’s the infuriatingly open-to-whatever one. And then there are the memories.

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Want More Charisma? It All Starts with Your Mind

Success

A 2018 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology even created a General Charisma Inventory with points that varied from leadership skills to general approachability. And just as in a physical assault, you can experience a fight-or-flight response fueled by stress hormones. Bye-bye, charisma.

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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Following the success of a New Zealand-based trial at property planning company, Perpetual Guardian in 2018, Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart set up 4 Day Week Global, the not-for-profit platform for the promotion of the four-day week. Instead, look at the results.”.

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Why we need to consider switching to a 4-day workweek — now 

Ideas.Ted

After more than 2,500 workers moved to a 35- or 36-hour workweek and declared themselves happier, healthier and less stressed, the country is now moving to make this an option for the majority of its workforce. Synergy Vision, a London-based medical and health care communications company, introduced a four-day week in late 2018.