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How to Create Your Own Flexible Workspace
If the past year has taught us something, that must be that the way we look at our work has changed drastically. Whether you have embraced the remote worker life or adopting a 'flexible working' approach, finding ways to create your own safe space to work from at home can become a true game-changer.
3 Simple Ways to Beat Zoom Fatigue
Video calls can be uniquely exhausting compared to in-person conversations, according to researchers from Stanford, and most office workers say that as the remote work revolution drags on, they are constantly wrestling with how best to combat fatigue.
Four Ways to Simplify Your Life This Week
Working long hours is a 'serious health hazard,' and the situation worsens, a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. This new study, involving workers from 194 countries, shows that working 55 hours or more in a week is linked to higher death rates from stress-linked conditions like strokes and heart disease. Let's be honest, this is not all news.
How to Set Better Boundaries When Working Remotely
Boundaries are a great way to reclaim your time, and then we’ll help you with all the other habits and little hacks we talked about in this piece. Boundaries can be physical, such as create finding another room to do your work or your time snacks, but they can also be mental. When it comes to creating boundaries, the first thing is achieving excellent communication.
3 Easy Ways to Save Time on your Next Meetings
Meetings do not have to be draining — yet they require you to look at ways to be more efficient with them. The simplest thing you can do to hack your meetings is to institute an agenda — something I explore in great lengths in Reclaim your Time Off.
Change the Way You See Downtime and Breaks at Work
Here’s a shocking stat for you. Ideally, it’s best to dedicate 40% of your workday to include time for breaks. Consider this the time you can spend recharging in between meeting, calls, email inbox replies. Read this once again, then look at your calendar for the week.
Why Your Values Can Help you Make Better Decisions
Values are the compass we use to understand where our time goes. The choices we make, the decisions we take are shaped by them — most time subconsciously. This is especially important to recognise when our personal and professional values connect and clash. In Reclaim your Time Off, I talk to great lengths about the importance of values. To gain clarity, we need focus.
5 Questions To Help You Solve Problems Fast
Here’s the deal. I am terribly impatient. I guess it’s the curse of a (humble) genius. Only kidding — at least on the genius part. Yet again, I am very fast. I have always more ideas flying through my head than I’d like to admit, and I can quickly pick up new software, systems, programs, and frameworks.
5 Simple Ways to Take Care of Our Mental Health
Taking care of our mental health should be as much of a practice as it is for you to brush your teeth in the morning. However, many of us still cannot justify the time to stop and create practices to check in with ourselves and improve our mental wellbeing. Now more than ever, as the world is opening up again. We need to find ways for ourselves, to come back to check in on how we're feeling emotionally, physically, and mentally.
3 Ways Women Can Change Their Relationship with Money
Let’s talk money. Finances. Savings. Anybody cringing yet? Oh boy, I have been the same for a long while. Talking about money can be though, and sometimes embarrassing, especially when you are in your twenties and well, you are not a pro at juggling with the whole financial planning. Let’s make a little test here: if you were asked to show a stranger 3 of your bank statements, how much would you feel conscious about their opinion from one to ten?
The Simplest Way to Cultivate Self Awareness Daily
Being self-aware means that we are aware of our emotions and emotional state at any moment, which can positively affect our thoughts and behaviors in any situation. We may even be able to even see ourselves objectively - what we say and do as seen from the perspective of someone else. This requires emotional intelligence, and like most things, it can be developed and fostered.
What I Learned When I Gave up My Teenage Dream
Since I was very, very young, I always knew who I wanted to be as I grew up. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, even if it did change occasionally as I grew older. I considered being a film director, an astronaut, a singer, a hairdresser, and, most of all, a writer. However, being a novelist felt unattainable – who would pay for me to write about what I love?
3 Ways to Make It Impossible for you to Fail
Let’s talk ‘failure ratio’. Don’t look at me like that. Trust me, failure ratio is a real thing: as real as unicorn lattes may be. What failure ratio is, effectively, can be summarised as proactively deciding how much failure you are willing to accept before having a breakthrough. Some people have to fail six, seven, eight times to find that one thing that really works for them.
5 Words for Happiness and Purpose From Around the World
I feel like these days more than ever we need to find the good around us. As May is Mental Health Awareness month, it really shines a light on the importance of making a conscious appointment with the idea of feeling good and being fulfilled and purpose-driven.
Why the 20% Rule is Key to Heightened Productivity
There is a very famous principle you may have heard before, dear reader, the one of reinventing the wheel. A lot of people are afraid to share their learnings, tips, tricks or even to help others simply because of the fear of not being original.
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