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#24 Morning Dance: Nurturing Routines for Your Well-Being
Starting your day with energy and vitality can significantly impact your optimism and resilience, especially during stressful times. Before I started wrapping my head around topics like stress management, time management, resilience, and healthy work habits, my mornings would often pass by unnoticed. I’d get up, get dressed, eat breakfast, and head out to work. Nowadays, I approach my mornings with much more mindfulness, understanding how they set the tone for the rest of my day. The way I start my mornings influences my energy levels, mental state, and ultimately, my productivity. One of my preferred morning rituals is to begin with a dance. It’s a lively start to the…
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#22 Clarity: defining goals & task
How can you make sure you know what it is you want to do? At first sight, that might seem like an unnecessary task. How would you notknow? But at least to me it happened quite regularly that I wouldn’t know whether I could tick off a To Do on my list or that in groups and when tasks got distributed that sometime later it turned out that not everyone was clear about what was expected from them. Both can result in frustration and be demotivating. One way around such miscommunication, be it just with yourself or in groups, can be to ensure that To Dos and tasks fulfil certain…
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#21 Balancing focus and breaks: Working in Units
Increasing work efficiency by using set intervals of focused work and breaks. Before learning about units and applying them, I would often wonder: Where did time go? And that was, I think, because I didn’t set clear boundaries between working and taking breaks. Working in units helps me to draw a clear line between both and has helped me focus, take efficient breaks and be less stressed. Working in Units Working: 45 minutes without distration! Taking breaks: anything between 5 – 15 minutes. Off-screen and away from your desk! United units Working in units collectively can add some more magic. It can be a great support to know that another…
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#16 Prioritisation and the Eisenhower Matrix
First things first. So far so good, but how?! I often asked myself: Why do I never feel like getting things done in time or Why do i never feel like getting enough things done? What helps me not having to ask myself such questions anymore – or at least a lot less – is using prioritisation techniques such as the Eisenhower Matrix. The Eisenhower Matrix helps us to categorise tasks depending on their urgency and importance. IMPORTANT means important to you – not necessarily anybody else and URGENT, too, isn’t always a clearly defined timeframe, it can also depend on your comfortzone, for example: How close to a deadline…
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#4 End of e-mail procrastination
How to avoid e-mail procrastination? Why speak about e-mails? Because the little icon on the bottom right corner of your screen can be a killer for deep work! And deep work is what we need, when we want to get things done. When we get an e-mail, I think this is what happens: Disruption: We are disrupted and our thinking shifts from our actual task or plan to the content of the e-mail. And we choose neither content nor timing. Associations: The content, the sender – within milliseconds all that creates hundreds of images, words, and feelings that we now have to deal with. Action: Our mind ends up doing…
