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The 2021 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

Productivityist

Last year, I made a video for my YouTube channel recommending 10 gift ideas for the (aspiring) productive person in your life. It’s 2020 and it’s time for a new holiday gift guide. ” Getting this book as a gift for someone would be a good choice. But that was last year. Let’s start with books. Freewrite.

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3 Simple, Regular Practices That Will Help You Come Up with New Ideas

Success

In addition to being a master painter, he was also a deeply engaged scientific thinker, and the interaction between the fields is clearly on display in his paintings that capture the human form with a level of detail and realism unusual for the time. Read about creative lives. Happy exploring!

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22 Self-Improvement Gift Ideas for Personal Development Junkies

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With a new year (and its resolutions) just around the corner, why not give friends and family self-improvement and personal development gifts that will help them be their best selves? Whether the recipient is new to personal development or just looking for a spark of inspiration, you’ll find the perfect gift for everyone on your list.

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The 2012 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

Productivityist

Well, if this person is a productivityist — or at least needs to look at becoming more productive — then you should give The Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide for 2012 a good look. It’s a long read, but it may just spark some gift ideas you hadn’t considered. Kobo Mini. I love the size of this thing.

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Are You Copy Pasting Your Life?

Brilliantly Better

So, based on what the stimuli offers, we browse our internal library and pick whatever we think it might be appropriate. For instance, if the stimuli is a big flame touching our hand, our reptilian brain will trigger a powerful and potentially life-saving response, usually in the form of a “run!” It does that in half of a second.

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How I Read To Help My Career

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I'm reading to apply and incorporate that knowledge into my life in any way shape or form applicable. 5) Reading as a gift. This is a practice I engage often that I have a circle of friends where I am there de facto local library. If anything, as I read, I am more or less studying as if I were taking a class.

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It’s no one’s fault for lack of knowledge, but when I see these ‘experts’ right online with the world’s biggest learning library at their fingertips and spouting off on Twitter, a huge link-sharing resource, then I can’t really sympathize with the, “Well, I guess you just didn’t know.&#

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