Tag: productivity tips
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We Make Everything Harder
By Leo Babauta It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be — myself included. That’s not a bad thing — it’s simply human. Harder is not worse. We learn from harder. So there’s a beauty and a sense to it. That said, once we see how much…
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Streamlining Work from Home: The Kanban Method
With more and more businesses and employees opting for remote work, it’s important to ensure productivity remains high while working from home. While the comfort and flexibility of working from one’s own environment can be a major advantage, it can also lead to distractions and decreased productivity. In order to combat these challenges, many teams…
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Maximizing Productivity with the Pomodoro Technique: A Guide for Self-Employed Professionals Working from Home
The Pomodoro Technique has become more well-known in recent years as a quick and effective time management technique for people who want to boost their productivity, lower their stress levels, and improve their work-life balance. The Pomodoro Technique involves breaking up work into concentrated periods of time, usually 25 minutes, with short breaks in between.…
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The Art of Effortless Decision Making
By Leo Babauta So many of us spend a ton of time and energy stuck in indecision — the stress and delays that come with this are quite incredible. One of the things I’m proud of about myself is my ability to make decisions quite effortlessly. This isn’t to brag — there are costs to that…
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Become Your New Habit
by Leo Babauta Quitting an old habit or forming a new habit is fairly simple when it comes to the steps to doing it: find your trigger and do a new habit at that trigger over and over. Remind yourself to do it. Make it rewarding. The simplicity is deceptive, though: there are some physical…
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How to Put Life on Easy Mode
By Leo Babauta The other day I was having such a chill, easy day despite doing all of my usual work and chores and workout activities — the phrase, “Life on Easy Mode” came to me. The rest of the week, I kept the question in my mind, “What would it be like to have…
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Effortless Effort: Relaxing While Trying Hard
BY LEO BABAUTA I’ve noticed that a lot of us will be pretty wiped out at the end of a long day of work or social activity, to the point where we need time to recuperate from exhaustion. There’s nothing wrong with that, but let’s talk about the possibility of doing hard things without exhausting ourselves.…
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Reset Ritual to Come Back to Focus
BY LEO BABAUTA One of the most common problems when people are working is that they get caught up in busywork or distractions, and it can take hours before they find their way back to their meaningful work. Part of that is procrastination, of course, but a lot of times it’s just falling down a rabbithole…
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Curbing a Compulsive Habit: A Primer
by Leo Babauta The habits we just can’t seem to quit can be very challenging — not only are they hard to change, they can have negative effects on our lives, and make us feel bad about ourselves. In this post, I’d like to talk about a few things I’ve found helpful to curb a…
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Destroy What You Know
by Leo Babauta We are held back from creating the life we want, from our highest purpose, from our greatest growth and learning … by what we know. Destroy what you know. Once we feel like we’re a little good at something, we cling to that. We cling to wanting others to think we know…
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How to Let Go of Obsessive Overthinking
BY LEO BABAUTA Sometimes, our heads won’t stop thinking about something. Our thoughts will spin around and around, not willing to let go, obsessing. It might be about another person, a big event coming up, or about ourselves. It might be overthinking a decision, big or small. There’s nothing wrong with this. It’s a human thing…
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Five Ways to Simplify Your Life
by Leo Babauta One of the great joys of my life is living simply, and every now and then finding ways to return to simplicity. Life tends to get complicated with time, and so I find ways to simplify. I’ve done lists with 100 ways to simplify, but obviously that’s not very simple! So today…
The Home Office Bug 