Treat Failure Like a Scientist
Dealing with failure requires a shift in thinking. Here's how to treat failure just as a scientist does.
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Treat Yourself Like a Role Model
How to treat yourself like a role model and use your accomplishments as reason for celebration and inspiration.
The Work Will Always Be There
You'll always have more work to do, and if you don't take me-time, you'll burn out. Me-time is a sustainable antidote to burnout and never-ending stress.
The Win-Win Secret to Earning Recurring Revenue with Your Side Project
Here's how Adam Rotman grew his side project, Share as Image, to over $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue through a series of partnerships.
Want to Be More Productive? Design a Better Work Break
Being aware how you’re spending your time leads to better work breaks that provide energy, focus, and creativity. Here's how to design a better work break.
Understanding How to Function at Your Best: Defining Positive Psychology
Dr. Stephen Schueller on what positive psychology is and how it can help you live better—here's what progress and timing have to do with living well.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo’s Unexpected Advice on Preserving Startup Culture in Your Company
Here's the surprising advice Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told Evernote CEO Phil Libin on preserving startup culture in your growing company.
Tim Cigelske, on How to Keep Track of Interns and Think Bigger
Tim Cigelske is director of social media at Marquette University, writer, husband and father. Here's how he manages his social media interns and his life.
Video: John Cleese Discusses Innovation
John Cleese shares how interruptions and busyness are huge barriers standing in the way of innovation in this video
Video: How to Stop Hitting That Snooze Button!
The science on why you should stop hitting your alarm clock's snooze button and tips on how to get better sleep.
The World’s Least Powerful CEO? The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! The world’s least powerful CEO leads at a company that makes $2.5 million a day. Don’t be the reason people quit. Be the reason people stay. Excellent leaders convert ambiguity to behavior. You’re not good at multitasking. 11 books ev
Top Strategies of Super Achievers: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! Busyness is not a virtue. How to escape the cult of busy. How to keep calm and carry on when you feel ignored. Make progress, not deadlines. Consumers can fight the tide of the fast web. What’s the cadence [...]
What Goldilocks Can Teach You About Management
Find the managerial sweet spot with Goldilocks management by challenging them with tasks that are not too hard and not too easy, but just right.
Time is a Gift!
Time is a gift, fleeting and swift! From the 1970 movie based on the fantastic classic children’s book, The Phantom Tollbooth, in which Milo learns that it’s what you do with time that makes it important. Sounds like something a lot of adults could learn! (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Welcome Janet Choi to the iDoneThis Team!
Hello! I’m Janet, and I’m delighted to be joining the iDoneThis team full-time! It’s been thrilling to see iDoneThis evolve while I’ve been freelance writing and editing for the company for about a year. I’m excited to contribute to its growth as Marketing Director, doing content and product marketing and continuing to
Welcome Tony Doran to the iDoneThis Team!
We're excited that Tony Doran is joining iDoneThis. He'll be doing web development, improving our web UI, and data visualization.
Time Management and Working Smarter
[I]n many ways, time is a much more valuable resource than money. You can earn large profits and save them for use years later. However, once time is gone, it will never come back. Robert C. Pozen, Harvard Business School professor and author of Extreme Productivity, on the importance of time management and working sma
The Write Habit: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly roundup of posts we've made this week including habit of writing, guide to content marketing, the awkward leader and more
Visit Your Musers
A muser is a user who is your muse, your ideal customer. We visited our musers, Shopify and Zappos, and it was one of the best things we did as a company.
Tips for Better Time Management
[T]ime management isn’t primarily about using minutes well, it’s about using yourself well. And using yourself well means spending most of your time in your sweet spot, which is at the intersection of your strengths, weaknesses, differences, and passions. Peter Bregman found that many people “agree or strongly agree th
The Ultimate Productivity Instrument is You
Keeping a work diary enables you to pay attention to your inner work life, ensures engagement with your work, and helps you make meaningful progress.
To-Do Lists and Keeping It Positive
Recently, we highlighted a method of planning your day that consisted of asking yourself what you’d say “No” to. Just as important is to ask yourself “Why?” when it comes to the items on your to-do list. Psychologist Michael V. Pantalon recommends making a Why-Do list to increase your motivation on those items that jus
Video: Sunni Brown—Doodle Away!
Doodle while you work! Sunni Brown’s TED Talk teaches us that doodling improves comprehension and creativity.
This Day is a Gift
A quote from How to Live Well on how to cherish each day as a gift, by Leo Babauta at zenhabits.