How to Keep Fighting in the Face of Failure
Failure demotivates and saps the energy of even the most confident of people. Here's how to build habits that help you keep fighting in the face of failure.
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How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue
Here are 3 tips on how to get your first $1,000 in recurring revenue: have a straightforward value proposition, sell before you build, and monetize.
Jeff Bezos’s Hiring Anti-Pitch
For Amazon hiring, Jeff Bezos gives an anti-pitch. Instead of trying to persuade candidates, he tells prospects why they shouldn't work at Amazon.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner’s Unconventional Meeting Technique
Before meetings start, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner requires every person in the room to share small wins from the week to get meetings started positively.
How WooThemes Makes Distributed Team Culture Succeed
Here's how WooThemes serves 450,000 users and grew its team to over 30 employees all with a remote team and building a transparent company culture.
How To Get Stuff Done: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! Get your team to do what you want 400 emails a day. How iDoneThis helps ScribbleLive make liveblogging happen. When do apps become rituals? “Experience is food for the brain.” Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Record your dones [...]
How To Measure Success
First, the seed being sown falls on good ground, but the birds get it. Then it falls on shallow ground and can’t grow. Then on thorny ground, where it withers away. And only with the last attempt it falls on good ground and the seeds grow. So we must shift our focus. We don’t want [...]
Just Do What You Can
Illustration: Dimitra Tzanos Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. You’ll be surprised how far that can take you!
How To Get Ahead At Work: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! What Goldilocks can teach you about work engagement. Learn about career paths and the world of work from our Q&A with writer Jessica Stillman, a non-pod person who’s on the beat. Why is the end of “Results Only” at [...]
Jessica Stillman, Writer and Non-Pod Person, on Work
Jessica Stillman writes at Inc about work and leadership. We talked with her about how to quit, productivity personalities, and the future of work.
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do it!
Dreaming is at the heart of disruption — it is only when we dream that we can hope to create something truly new, something that will overtake old habits, old customs, and old ways of thinking and being… And the more we dream ourselves into becoming who we want to be, the closer we’ll come [...]
How to Get Your Team to Stick to New Habits
As Chief Happiness Officer, Ginni ensures that iDoneThis is helping teams and companies stay connected, enhance productivity, and improve their inner work life. Every so often, a team leader will reach out to ask why some team members just aren’t getting on board. Ginni reached out to friend, time coach and productivit
If Money Were No Object: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including money were no object, what do you desire, 5 things tob e more effective and more.
iDoneThis on The Cloud Show! The Best of the Internet
Hey, it’s our fearless CEO on the The Cloud Show! And on now on to the best of what we’ve shared on the internets this week: Ginni’s great post on the best ways to work on customer service from the inside. Why it’s important for women to speak out about their work. How Ravelry, the best social [...]
How You Can Work Harder and Waste More Time
Lisa Belkin explores how we're working harder and wasting more time, and what that means for our energy management and productivity.
Laura Vanderkam on Success Before Breakfast
From looking at the time logs of extremely successful people, I’ve learned that they focus on three categories: nurturing their career, nurturing their family and nurturing themselves. Laura Vanderkam, speaking to the Washington Post, on how to be successful before breakfast.
How VHX is Leading the Self-Distribution Revolution
VHX is bringing digital video distribution up to speed with this internet-fueled modern age, delivering DRM-free video, such as Aziz Ansari’s Dangerously Delicious and Indie Game: The Movie, directly to fans. Having launched as a social video community — a way to discover, share, and queue video for later — VHX could s
How Wistia Builds Its Competitive Advantage
In the past year, Wistia went doubled its headcount to a total of fifteen people. Here's how they grew their team and kept a tight-knit culture.
How To Focus in the Age of Distraction
We love this mindmap, How to Focus in the Age of Distraction. Dozens of useful suggestions in one place! Click on the image for a larger version. Foster good habits, manage your e-mail, disconnect and detox from technology, manage your workspace, work in focused bursts, and take time to reflect and review!
How We Got Our First 10,000 Users
Passing 10,000 users felt awesome and we did it with three dead simple techniques that anyone can execute. 1. Custom narratives for influential communities. I wrote in April how we made it to 5,000 users by constructing custom narratives for Hacker News, Reddit, and Lifehacker. We described iDoneThis to a community as
iDoneThis on Lifehacker!
We’re in Lifehacker today! iDoneThis is a new webapp that takes your goals and habits you want to build, reminds you to work towards them daily or weekly (you can choose), and puts you on a virtual team of people with similar goals so you can work together, support each…
Just Keep Swimming!
Here’s a little sunny and fish encouragement. Keep making tiny, wonderful triumphs happen!
John Tierney on Stress
Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: “At some point every day, you have to say, ‘No more work.’” No matter how many tasks remain undone, you have to relax at some point and enjoy the evening. John Tierney, NY Times columnist [...]
John Lennon’s To-Do List!
John Lennon’s to-do list varied from meeting guys with HBO, to buying marmalade, to errands around the house. Even rockstars get stuff done! We wonder how he recorded his accomplishments. (via brainpickings)