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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

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How to Optimize Your Day: Have an Intentional Morning Wake up – 9 a.m. Instead of checking your email or Instagram the moment you wake up, fall into a productive morning routine that helps set the tone for a productive day. Better yet, if possible, take a longer midday break. And as the workday winds down, whether at 5 p.m.

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The Assistant’s Year-end Sprint

Office Dynamics

There are also 4th quarter “finish line sprints” for assistants to handle: last minute travel itineraries, final year-end planning and execution of financial purchases, turnover of files and projects, and employee transfers to be handled. Be happy you can get up and go to work! Oh yes, and budget analysis for the whole year!

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The Assistant’s Year-end Sprint

Office Dynamics

There are also 4th quarter “finish line sprints” for assistants to handle: last minute travel itineraries, final year-end planning and execution of financial purchases, turnover of files and projects, and employee transfers to be handled. Be happy you can get up and go to work! Oh yes, and budget analysis for the whole year!

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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

He cautioned that I was running a marathon, not a sprint and I should give myself time to learn and not be too hard on myself if I didn't know everything right away. This helped me see that I was picking things up quickly, but if I forgot something, I could go back and check in my manual. That has been good advice.

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

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Make sure you know what you’re signing up for and read the cancellation policy before entering your credit card information. This Apple-only app offers comprehensive tracking systems to monitor good and bad habits, helps you set up SMART goals and provides charts and graphs to see your progress over time. 10 best goal setting apps 1.

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ClickUp vs. Trello: Which is the best project management software?

BMT Office Administration

Before you know it, you’ll have 15 email threads to keep up with, as well as loads of time-tracking spreadsheets for each team member. Trello Power-Ups. While Trello lacks more advanced features in its original version, there are ways to add extra features and functionality to it through power-ups. What are those?

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Asana vs. Monday: Which project management software is better?

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Monday Dev provides an attractive toolset for development teams with bug tracking, sprint dashboards, roadmap planning, and scrum & kanban features. First, let’s see how each program stacks up in terms of general task management. File attachments. Monday Dev. Task management: Asana vs. Monday. FAQ section.