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[S]top telling people what to do and … start asking them their opinion about the best way to get something done. Josh Patrick, founder of Stage 2 Planning Partners, on the value of asking and actually listening to your employees. When you ask first, you’ll learn instead of assume. And while it’s tough to trust [...]
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Discover four more helpful to-do list tips and how to master the art of to-do lists by understanding why they fail.
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Marc Andreessen's solution to procrastination is devious. Instead of fighting procrastination, procrastinate away. It's called structured procrastination.
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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. Dalai Lama
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You’ve just been Monday (kid)pep-talked! What would be your Space Jam? What will you create to make the world awesome? … If we can make every day better for each other, if we’re all on the same team, let’s start acting like it. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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A little inspiration on magnifying successes not disappointments.
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Some productivity mind tricks from Hannah Hart. (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
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iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including year that matters, multiple startups, give up email and more.
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Here's how to rework your to-do list using if-then planning. It's a planning strategy that helps automate a desired action with cues and context.
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iDoneThis weekly round up of posts we've made this week including motivation and self-discipline, socially conscious startups, digital village and more
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Marc Andreessen has a surprising trick to feeling productive. He keeps a daily anti-todo list, which is a list of everything he's accomplished.
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Here are concrete tips on how to leverage The Progress Principle in your company by keeping a work diary.
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Here’s the weekly round-up of the best of the blog & links we’ve shared on the interwebs! Happy Friday! How Mozilla uses iDoneThis to communicate and create. The key to building an awesome team? Make employees feel like superheroes. Stillpower, not willpower, is the key to flow and getting in the zone. In case you [...
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Dictionary Evangelist and founder of Wordnik.com, Erin McKean spreads the good word about words. Former editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press and editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2E, Erin also shared her quest to redefine the dictionary itself in a 2007 TED talk. That redefin
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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt
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How your software tools work may be interrupting your employees' maker's schedule. Here's how to collaborate without disruption from constant notifications.
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Cheers to mistakes! Here’s the full quote about making mistakes from the excellent Neil Gaiman’s blog, totally worth reading before you get back to doing: Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. Yo
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You also have to have perseverance – and maybe that’s the hardest thing, to persevere and to believe that what you’re doing is worth doing – and to do it, rather than talking about doing it. Maira Kalman talks to 99u about work and overcoming the challenges of the creative process. Her daily routine expressly [...]
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Here’s some Monday inspiration from the story of Mark Lesek and his project to make a better, more affordable prosthetic arm to improve the lives of amputees. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a bike or an arm or a life. If you can take it apart, if you can understand it, you can make it [...]
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We probably didn’t need scientists to actually come up with a figure (80% failure rate!) to know that New Year’s resolutions don’t stick around. The key to change is not making some grand declaration of an ideal, that this is the year you’re going to lose x number of pounds, stop procrastinating, find Princess Charming
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To maximize performance, manage your energy. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Matthew Stibbe is the CEO of Articulate Marketing, a marketing copywriting agency, and founder of Turbine, an online application that helps businesses take care of administrative issues, to “take the paper out of paperwork.” In what he calls his spare time, he’s learning Dutch and blogging about flying and about writin
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I’ve recently spoken with technical founders who’ve complained about their non-technical co-founders who refuse to do or learn anything technical, and it’s struck a nerve. One technical founder told me, “My co-founder refuses to learn the most basic SQL so that they can pull analytics on their own.” As the…
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