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The 20 most important minutes of your week: Productivity tips for work
Weekly planning: How it works and how to master it The clock strikes midnight. You hit send on one final e-mail for the day. Bleary-eyed you set your alarm for 5:00 a.m., already anxious about tomorrow’s deadline. There must be a better way to plan the work day. Most office working Americans describe the workday …
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Sticking to a routine, when you don’t naturally
I don’t want tips for creating new habits, I’d rather have everything snap perfectly into place. Everything organized. Everything works like clock work. My desk is clean. Work is wrapped-up exactly on-time. My body becomes accustomed to working out on schedule – even looking forward to a good sweat session. The trouble is, a consistent routine crumbles …
4 steps for inner-spring cleaning
Finish the phrase ‘spring’ and you just might be thinking about chickens or flowers (or snow if you live in Chicago!). But earlier today when I called my grandmother, we realized we were both thinking about the same thing: spring cleaning. Either way, there’s something soothing about the quiet, repetitive handiwork of cleaning. The smooth, …
2 Questions to pivot your goals while sheltering-in-place
Six more weeks in quarantine. I’m not going to get through this. The first weekend of Shelter-in-Place felt like a deep, two-day sigh of relief. The normal rhythm of urgency died down to a quiet pulse, and it hit me: I finally have the bandwidth to finish sewing curtains for the living room. I started …
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How to stay accountable to yourself when working remotely
Gleaming bathroom tile, spotless kitchen counter, shining wood floors, and no stray socks to be found… This was the fruit of working remotely. Frustratingly little work work, as in the work that actually paid for groceries. Keeping track of the day in my head, I had thought that my hours logging into my home office …
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My 1-minute routine to center your inner-compass
A lamp outside of the towering iron window casts an eerie glow on the white and black checkered marble floor. The balls of my feet tread slowly across the slick tile, that even the slightest hint of a muffled echo wouldn’t disturb the outstretched shadows. Gradually my pupils adjust to the dim half-light. Blocks of …
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The power of one word
Recently I’ve noticed one word taking charge over the inner-diatribes in my head: Need. Even as I write that four-letter word my stomach begins to cringe and my chest tightens. There’s just something about the word ‘need’… It instinctively makes me hold my breath and unconsciously raises my heart-rate. It’s all too tempting to use …
3 Nudges to generate more energy at work
A few months ago, the spring in my morning routine starting to fall away. Every day I woke-up more sluggish than the day before. Not just sleepy – bone tired. It wasn’t long until every morning I wanted to hide under the covers until the last possible moment. Why did I lose my willpower to …
Finding direction when facing regret
The Puzzle: How do we pick-up the pieces when we feel lost? Or when we realize that what we want to be working, isn’t really working, how do we find a path forward? Most of the time on this blog, I break down giant hairy unwieldy problems into little baby steps. So instead of looking …