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Although the pressures of society and work often cause us to behave differently in our work and home lives, I believe we must resolve to knock down these artificial walls and behave the same at work and at home. Bill George, author of Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value, at Harvard
The most powerful tactic for women in advancing their career is to make their achievements known. Here's how women can make self-promotion work effectively.
How to master the art of the to-do list by understanding why they fail and some more of the best articles from around the web.
’Tis easy to frame a good bold resolution; But hard is the Task that concerns execution. Take some comfort in the fact that Ben Franklin, the genius who did everything, still found the doing part a little tough!
Ken Robinson’s School of Life talk teaches us to think about our lives in terms of energy and passions.
It’s funny how little things can make a difference, like finding forgotten candy in a drawer or $5 in the street. Hope this little heart-y pic provides a mid-week boost! We love you. Keep going.
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
Thank you, Malcolm Gladwell’s floating head. We send you off to the weekend with the hope that you’re all sorts of happy, working, and fulfilled — 9 to 5, and 5 to 9!
Turn Your Can’ts into Cans!
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 [..
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
You Don’t Need An Army When You Have Seal Team 6 Sometimes, you can get more done with less.
In choosing to do our startup in the San Francisco Bay Area, near the heart of the Valley — the world center for technology and innovation — and joining an incubator run by Xooglers, we didn’t expect our company’s most powerful and transformative lesson over the past 4 months to be that in the realm [...]
Willem Bult is a world traveler, entrepreneur, and software developer. Here's how he keeps himself motivated as a software developer.
Here's how we started from zero and got our first 5,000 users. We got users from existing communities by constructing custom narratives for them.
The book trailer for Andrew Zuckerman’s Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another is a treasure trove of wise words from leaders of all fields who are all over 65 years old. Here are some of our favorites from the wise words spoketh: "Your best work is your…
Some words of strength to see you out to the weekend. Thankfully, you won’t be battling to the death for the entertainment of a dystopian television audience! May the odds be ever in your favor … of getting some stuff done!
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart
This 1932 quote from FDR may be about the U.S., but it stands as pretty good personal advice too! The country needs, and unless I mistake its temper, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly…
Wise words to get us started this Monday!
Give yourself the weekend off. Seriously. If you really, really, really need to do work, schedule a finite time to focus with laser beam attention on it. Otherwise, stop feeling guilty all weekend and let it go. More work and more time spent thinking about doing work does not equal…
Work is what we do by the hour. It begins and, if possible, we do it for money. Welding car bodies on an assembly line is work; washing dishes, computing taxes, walking the rounds in a psychiatric ward, picking asparagus—these are work. Labor, on the other hand, sets its own pace. We may get paid [...]
Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals and co-author of Rework, found that when people wanted to get stuff done, their answer was rarely the office but instead someplace where they wouldn’t encounter externally imposed distractions. What’s perhaps most insightful about Fried’s 2010 TEDxMidwest talk is his comparison of w
Some great tips for working smarter, not harder. Less than half of workers report being satisfied with the recognition they receive on the job. Is it just a coincidence that less than half of employed adults report being completely satisfied with their jobs? Do you have any tips for working…
