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Mar 16

One setting that costs you 1.5 hours of focus each work day

Steal back 50–98 minutes of deep work today — We are drowning in digital distractions. The modern workplace is destroying our focus. And perhaps the most pernicious perpetrator is email: “Email is a wonderful tool that has revolutionized communication, but its ease and ubiquity have come at a cost to our ability to work deeply.” — Cal Newport Outlook is the ultimate knowledge worker interrupter The…

Focus

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Focus

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Aug 17, 2022

A simple hack to radically improve your storytelling skills

Yesterday, I learned how the power of storytelling can transform your life. That’s not hyperbole. — Last week, I was on a walk around the block from my house, listening to a new Audiobook, ‘Storyworthy’ by Matthew Dicks. I hated his voice, but persisted, because I had a hunch that storytelling could help me. Not in a life-fulfilling, transformative way. …

Storytelling

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Storytelling

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Aug 10, 2022

My evening routine made me a better writer and a healthier person

Why we should spend less time and energy on our morning routines — Why are we so obsessed with morning routines? Morning routine posts are still SO popular. This has been going on for years! And I’m the biggest sucker for them. I’ll click ‘read more’ on anything that begins with “here’s how I start my day!” (Side note — apparently our obsession with morning routines dates all the way back…

Morning Routines

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Morning Routines

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Jul 23, 2022

How to be the fun one

Three tips from science to add more fun into your life at any age — Do you have a lot of fun? Like, real fun? Because it seems like a lot of the things we do in our busy, distracted lives, aren’t always really fun. Scrolling through social media. Hanging out with friends or colleagues ‘just like’. Going to the same cafes, restaurants and bars… There’s fun, and there’s F.U.N …

Fun

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How to be the fun one
How to be the fun one
Fun

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Jul 22, 2022

Nobody reads anything anymore. Here’s what that means for your writing.

When Jim VandeHei’s article went viral, he learned something that made him leave his prestigious career as a journalist. After more than a decade plugging away at the keyboard, the success of Jim’s article about Obama for the Wall Street Journal should’ve been cause for celebration. But looking at the…

Writing

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Writing

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Jul 20, 2022

2 powerful sales frameworks for professionals who hate selling

Sales is the most valuable skill you can build if you aren’t in sales. Here are 2 frameworks to help you learn how to sell anything in record time. — The ability to find hidden value is the most powerful business skill you can build. And it’s especially important for those of us who have full-time jobs that aren’t sales — lawyers, accountants, entrepreneurs and marketers. We all need to sell to succeed.

Sales

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Sales

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Jul 19, 2022

Three questions to generate content if you’re not an expert in your field

Most early career professionals know that building an online personal brand is valuable — they’ve grown up in the Instagram Era, after all. But the hardest part of building a personal brand in the early stages of your career is coming up with interesting content — especially because you don’t…

Content

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Content

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Jul 15, 2022

Don’t listen to the pyramid schemers. Writing is the best way to earn more money in 2022 — but not for the reasons you think.

If anything killed Medium, it was this: The profusion of below-average writers, all squawking into this echo-chamber of marketers and self-help fanatics about how to make money writing online. Most of what they parrot about making money as a writer is false. Don’t get me wrong — you can make…

Writing

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Writing

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Jul 14, 2022

How the 2-day rule changed my health forever

This simple principle will help you form great habits — I’m sitting (slouching?) on a metaphorical pile of failed habits, from counting macros to writing 1000 words a day. But there is one habit I have stuck to religiously, for years, without fail or exception: I have exercised 3+ times per week for 14 years. That might not sound impressive…

Habits

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Habits

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Jul 13, 2022

How to make your work relationships more productive (and fun)

A simple concept from leadership lessons from Google and Apple — We’ve all had to put up with dickheads at work. A micromanaging boss, a hyper-critical colleague, a snarky middle manager — these people can make your job hell. And this article won’t help you fix those people. That’s an impossible task. But we can talk about how to get the…

Work

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Work

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