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Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
We make a lot of mistakes at work. This is how you stop repeating them.
Don’t confuse busyness with business.
Manage your energy instead of your time.
Don’t buy dissatisfaction created by someone else’s criteria.
Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Did you know you could use an Alfred app extension to record your dones? Now you can update dones throughout the day with this shortcut!
Frequently take stock of what’s working and what’s not — because it’s always changing. Put that on your calendar.
Cali Williams Yost, author of Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day, shares simple work-life balance shortcuts.
One thing people do to “have it all”? A regular practice of checking in and reflection.
What’s happening at work and in the other parts of my life? What do I want more of? What do I want less of? What do I want to continue? They realize that the actions that keep them healthy, their career network and job skills up to date, their personal relationships strong, and their personal finances in shape won’t happen by default and are always changing.
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 Management Update.
We can’t really shut off our humanness at work, and indeed shouldn’t. Work is personal too. Do you agree that the walls between work and home are artificial?
The productivity industry doesn’t do this work to entertain us. They’re trying hard to help you get more done better. Emphasis on done.
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
Marc Andreessen’s surprising procrastination antidote to super-productive superpowers.
Don’t waste productivity superpower on getting just any old stuff done. Get the right stuff done …
By saying no to spending time thinking unhelpful thoughts …
And by taking time for yourself. Pick your battles and recharge your human batteries —
So that you can face the question with that strong heart of yours, of what would you do if you weren’t afraid?
And stay open to face fear, for “being vulnerable, especially in our work, is fucking terrifying” and that vulnerability is where empathy begins.
Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Display entries for multiple days at once by clicking and dragging over the days you want to show on your I Done This web calendar. Your path o’ progress will show up on the right!
The painful and inevitable struggle remains to create in a childlike and openhearted manner, but to be un-wistful and cruel when judging one’s creation.
Artist Christoph Niemann writing for the New Yorker about the process of making his first app and the “most important struggle at the center of all creative pursuits: being the artist and the editor at the same time.”
When you are overwhelmed, overworked, and overinvested in maintaining the status quo – when you find yourself resisting change even though what you’re doing right now isn’t really working – that is a sign you are not fully in charge of your life. You are letting things happen to you by accident.
Credit: Carolyn Sewell Let your awesomeness abound today!
Happy Friday! Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week!
Having the audacity to ask (or say “Yes, and”) opens doors. Waiting for permission leaves you hanging.
Harness the Productivity Power of Automation.
Create with an open heart. Edit with a critical eye.
Productivity secrets for startups.
What will our digital etiquette be in the age of Data Darwinism?
Dundee’s Tip of the Week: Try using Zapier or IFTTT to automate I Done This updates from lots of apps, including Evernote and Github! Set triggers and zaps to send to today@today.idonethis.com (personal users) and yourteamname@team.idonethis.com (teams). You can find the exact address in the “from” field of your reminder emails.
Illustration: Dimitra Tzanos Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. You’ll be surprised how far that can take you!