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We love this mindmap, How to Focus in the Age of Distraction. Dozens of useful suggestions in one place! Click on the image for a larger version.
Foster good habits, manage your e-mail, disconnect and detox from technology, manage your workspace, work in focused bursts, and take time to reflect and review!
Everyone finds their own path. The best advice is to continually work tremendously hard, making amazing things, and be patient.
Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari gives some pretty good advice on how to achieve success, no matter what you’re up to.
(Photo by Amelia Beamish)
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 code he wrote. Gabbing online with colleagues and customers helped his work.
— WSJ, Employees, Measure Yourselves
Grow your awareness of how and what helps you work. Sometimes you’ll find that a lot of what the so-called productivity rules proclaim is wrong because they don’t take you into consideration.
Dr. Seuss’s remedy for a case of the Mondays!
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!
I feel really lucky … although I hate that word — ‘lucky.’ … Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes — I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then… . Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky.
Look familiar? Wendy MacNaughten To Do print captures the anxiety of what she calls the “meta to-do place” that we end up creating: ”We overthink how and when and what, and don’t just get the eff up and Do Something.”
What would your To Do diagram look like? Create your own! Or get MacNaughten’s lovely work as a reminder.
In any case, get the eff up and do something!
Building a business from scratch is a huge challenge and doing it with a virtual team is even tougher. The interaction and information exchange that happens when people work in the same room often get taken for granted. It’s something that’s tricky to replicate when the team is straddled across different locations and timezones.
So why bother with a remote team? For founder Laura Roeder, having a virtual team is a competitive advantage. It gives her greater flexibility in hiring to make that she’s focusing 100% on quality and fit. It also suits her hands-off management style. Everyone in the company has the autonomy to do their own thing, so long as they’re openly and actively communicating with the team.
May your Monday be both more manageable and full of possibility!
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!