Why I Decided to Move Away From My Team to Live in Downtown Vegas
Downtown Vegas is becoming a hub for tech entrepreneurs. Here's why John Todero decided to relocate over 2,000 miles with his small team still in Orlando.
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Why Does Your Work Matter?
Believing that your work matters is absolutely vital in keeping you engaged at work and ensuring that you're performing at your best. Here's why.
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When Are You Most Happy? The Happiness Tracking App
Matt Killingsworth is interested in not just what makes people happy but when people are happy. Gathering data from a happiness-tracking app that he built, he found that people are less happy when their minds are wandering, no matter what they’re doing. So rewire yourself to stay in the moment, and watch how you’re pay
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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.
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Why Logic is an Unproductive Way to Address Illogical Behavior
Overwhelm is a major cause of project slippage, demotivation and disengagement. Here's how overwhelm happens at work and how to combat it.
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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
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When Stress Takes Over
Work stress can take over your body. Take some small steps today with advice from Dr. Chansky.
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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.
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What I Wish I’d Known: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! Our Chief Happiness Officer Ginni Chen’s expert advice on how to make customers happy over at the Firefly blog. How to use small wins to fuel great achievements. How the brain performs better when faced with a challenge. What 25 [...]
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What Happens When You Don’t Email?
Professor Mark studied what happens when you do away with work email. She found that people were less stressed, more productive, and able to focus longer.
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Who hates Mondays? Not everyone, apparently!
NEWS FLASH: Everybody does not hate Mondays! A recent Gallup poll found that workers who are engaged feel almost as good on the weekdays as they do on the weekends! Plus, learning and interestingness peaks for these happy, engaged workers during the workweek. In turn, they are more likely to be productive. The bad news
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What Is The Ultimate Life Hack?
Giving and receiving undivided attention, even briefly, is the least that one individual can do for another — and sometimes the most. And yet, attending to others doesn’t just help them — it helps us, by evoking responses that help the listener feel cared for, useful, and connected to the larger world. Kare Anderson, “
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When Procrastination Becomes Useful
Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause. Frank Partnoy, “Waiting Game”, Financial Times. Partnoy, author of the forthcoming book Wait
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Welcome Mike Sun to the iDoneThis team!
We’re thrilled to introduce that Michael Sun, engineer and hacker extraordinaire, has joined the iDoneThis team. In January and February, Michael worked with us on a contract basis to help us scale our infrastructure to support the influx of new users we were getting, and he did a fantastic job. When we had the opportu
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Why Appreciation Matters
Feeling genuinely appreciated lifts people up. At the most basic level, it makes us feel safe, which is what frees us to do our best work. It’s also energizing. When our value feels at risk, as it so often does, that worry becomes preoccupying, which drains and diverts our energy from creating value. Tony Schwartz, Why
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What Good Will You Do Today?
Ben Franklin, that man of many hats, started and ended each day asking himself some pretty good questions! Plus, a lesson from this very productive man — remember to sleep, eat meals, and leave some time for diversion! What good will you do today? We hope iDoneThis helps you put things in their places, examine your [..
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What Helps You Work?
Another employee, a programmer, thought his online chats were eating into his work time. So he tested the theory: He looked at how long he spent chatting during certain periods, then looked at how much code he wrote during those times. But in fact, the more he talked, the more…
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Who Says It Can’t Be Done?
It Couldn’t Be Done - Edgar Albert Guest Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace…
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Why Do We Procrastinate?
http://vimeo.com/36045882 Ryan Perera’s infographic guide on why we procrastinate. Research shows that procrastination is based on our natural tendency to value today much more than tomorrow. We hope iDoneThis helps you value today as much as yesterday and tomorrow! (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
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Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up as We Age?
As we get older, it's common to feel like time is passing more quickly. Weeks, months and years seem to fly by faster than they did when we were children. This phenomenon is so widely experienced that it has a name - "time acceleration". So why does time appear to…
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Why I Ignored a Late-Night Email From My New Boss (And You Should Too)
It came, like most terrible and dangerous things, in the night. OK so like 9:30. But late enough. It arrived through the buzz of my phone. A new message in my inbox. A message from my new boss. And on week two of my tenure here at iDoneThis. The…
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Your Brain on Dopamine: The Science of Motivation
Learn how dopamine affects motivation and discover tips to boost productivity and focus. Take steps to improve focus and performance. Get full review.
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Work Productivity Hacks 2021: Five Tips To Boost Office Efficiency
Work productivity hacks is necessary to help boost work performance. Below we cover the best hacks that will boost productivity.
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Writing is Power: Supercharge Your Writing Process
Like most things worth doing, writing can be a chore. But the more fluent you become at the writing process, the more you’ll be able to own your success.
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