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Joshua Becker’s New Book Explores Everyday Distractions Becoming a Lifestyle—And How to Refocus on the ‘Things That Matter’

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An email preview pops up in the corner of your screen. Beeps, ringtones, notifications, calendar reminders and vibrations. When a distraction becomes a lifestyle. Indulging in distractions can go from being an occasional pastime to becoming an ingrained part of our lifestyles. Few distractions begin as a lifestyle.

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How to Make Reading Part of Your Daily Routine

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Make time for reading by putting it on your calendar. Reading is no harder to achieve than your weekly conference call if you schedule it on your calendar and take it just as seriously. I’ve found that things that don’t make it onto my calendar typically don’t get accomplished. —Rahim Charania, American Fueling Systems 2.

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Hustle Culture Is Over. Slow Productivity Is the Way to Meaningful Work

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Visible productivity’s origins started much before that, when work shifted from using our talents to do a job, to completing all the tasks “around” work, such as that never-ending email inbox. Newport calls this “pseudo” productivity: “The use of visible activity as the primary means of approximating actual productive effort.”

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

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It’s this distribution of talent across geography, lifestyles and interests that makes up the virtual assistant model’s “secret sauce” and helps companies increase profit margins and productivity while boosting enthusiasm and satisfaction for employees. You do not need to be managing email and invoicing and bookkeeping,” she says. “If

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Optimize Your Life With 10 of Our Favorite Apps

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SimplyWise : Available in the Apple App Store, SimplyWise is designed to help users record expenses by scanning and uploading paper receipts and saving email receipts. Structured : This is a visual calendar you can download from the Apple App Store. You can use it to save recipes, make meal plans and create grocery lists.

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Organize Your To-Do List into These 4 Categories

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The more detailed my calendar, the more prepared and focused I am. I often find myself pulled in too many directions, reacting to phone calls, email and other stuff that pops up. What are my top priorities—no more than three—for the week, and what activities could distract me? Committing my priorities to words focuses me mentally.

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How to Plan a Working Vacation

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If you’re traveling to a different time zone, always double check your calendar to make sure any meeting times are correctly noted. Because of the time difference, he would get calls, texts and emails throughout the night, which he would check first thing in the morning. “I

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