Do Good Work
Do good work, tell people about it. Acknowledge your progress and recognize others’ good work!
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Connecting The Dots In Your Life
A little bit of reflection and connecting the dots can lead to insight, an honest overview of where you are, and a clearer picture of where you’re headed!
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Don’t Dwell on the Past
You can’t change anything that has happened, but you can change what’s about to happen. Tina Lin, a 14-year-old high school student, wants to become the first U.S. table tennis Olympics Champion. Her wise guiding principle? Don’t dwell too much on the past and the points lost. Go after the next ones.
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Don’t Let Others Define You: The Best of the Internet
iDoneThis weekly roundup on posts we've shared this week including don't let other define you, innovation requires no degree and defend against power plays.
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Designing Habit Hacks to Change Your Life
Habit change doesn't require you to have superhuman willpower. Here's how to design habit hacks to shape your behavior without the need for self-control.
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Dare to Say “Yes, And”
Use the “Yes, and” principle of improv at work to open yourself to positivity and other people's ideas. It will help your company to build on itself.
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Don’t Stand Still
In the words of a Chinese proverb, Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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Dr. David Posen on Treating Workplace Stress
Dr. Posen breaks down three main causes of workplace stress and explains how to be a better manager and worker.
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Do More of What You Love: The Best of the Internet
As we bid farewell to 2012, some food for thought about the upcoming: Tips on how to make it easier to be happier, fitter, more productive… And 5 more tips. What does it mean to do what you love for a living? What are you waiting for? Well, iDoneThis users & blog readers: what are [...]
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Drive, Drift or Develop? The Different Productivity Types
Todd Henry of The Accidental Creative breaks down three different productivity types - the Driver, the Drifter, and the Developer.
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Delusions of Bosslessness
This guest article is from Caleb Vognsen, a builder, gamer, and thinker. For more on Caleb, read to the bottom. Bossless is bunk. Perhaps you’ve heard of this “Bosslessness,” the latest pre-existing corporate substructure The Internet has now decided is trending. Perhaps you’ve heard it mostly involves de-titling every
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Empathy vs Apathy: The Best of the Internet
Photo: Mohamed Muha Happy Saturday all! Catch up with some of our favorites things we’ve shared during the week: We wrote about reconsidering the startup open floor plan office. Whitney Hess writes on empathy versus apathy and organizational culture. Get rid of stupid rules at work. The importance of building a company
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Enjoy Time, Don’t Kill It!
Leo Babauta of zen habits is all for killing time. To Leo, “killing” is a misnomer. Reframe killing time as enjoying time. Is this what our lives are to be? A non-stop stream of productive tasks? A life-long work day? A computer program optimized for productivity and efficiency? A cog in a machine? What about joy? What
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Embracing Life’s Challenges
Like accolades ought to be, the fulfilled life is a consequence, a gratifying byproduct. It’s what happens when you’re thinking about more important things. Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the [...]
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Crowdsource Your Company’s Bonuses
At Shopify, they've reinvented the annual review and compensation process. They crowdsource company bonuses every month using their internal system Unicorn.
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Courage Doesn’t Always Roar
Listen to that quiet voice and try, try, again. You are accomplishing awesome things!
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Creating a Productive Environment
Wise use of space means creating the right context for concentration, learning, communication, and collaboration—the building blocks of productivity. Productivity is not just about you. It’s also about your environment. The National Institute of Building Sciences takes a look at “productive building design.” Organizati
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Engaging Your Employees
More satisfied and engaged employees perform better. In a Towers Watson study of some 90,000 employees across eighteen countries, companies with the most engaged employees reported a 19 percent increase in operating income, and a 28 percent growth in earnings per share. Companies whose employees had the lowest level of
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Crowdsourcing Product Positioning
We have a broad-based, loosely constrained web application. Our users engage with the site in a variety of different ways for a number of reasons. That makes it difficult to take a bunch of usage information and turn it into actionable data about how to position our product. In searching for data to form the [...]
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Corey Maass, Productivity Expert
Meet Corey Maass, productivity expert, software developer, and musician. Corey uses iDoneThis to keep track of work, play, and everything in between. BIO Corey’s been working on the web for 15 years, enough time to learn a little about a lot of things. In 2004 he launched his first web app, and has created [...]
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Da Vinci’s To-Do Lists
Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich dipped into the mind of Leonardo and his to-do list, based on Toby Lester’s book, Da Vinci’s Ghost: Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image, which comes out today. According to Lester, Leonardo travelled with a small notebook at the ready to take notes,…
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Daydreaming for Creativity: The Best of the Internet
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! How we help Crashlytics work so that mobile developers can focus on the things that matter. Breaking down the science of productivity. Overcoming the bias against creatives as leaders. Are you a daydream believer? We are.
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Dealing With Office Anger
Don’t get all inner-Angrybot at work. Eilene Zimmerman wrote recently in the NYT about how to deal with office anger. Tips on how to deal include writing it down: It might help to vent by writing down your feelings and thoughts, says Deborah Grayson Riegel, founder of Elevated Training in Hewlett, N.Y. The writing…
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Do What You Love
We tend to think of following our passions or what we consider our true callings as either inevitable or the impossible dream. But remember that going all in requires calculation too. (via smarterthaniam)
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