Productivity Bits

JUNE 16, 2016

These distractions also cause stress, which makes work even more unbearable. The key to getting work done is to decrease your stress, which can develop from a variety of situations — from issues in your personal life to your workload at the office. No matter where it comes from, though, stress hurts your productivity.

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Office Dynamics

JULY 10, 2018

Scheduling a performance evaluation meeting and setting measurable goals can be stressful or even seem unproductive to some. The meeting is typically a way to evaluate the past year’s project management, acknowledge achievements, receive valuable feedback for performance improvement and create new goals for continued productivity.

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Success

AUGUST 14, 2021

Only my phone knew how many texts and emails awaited me. Total silence can’t be my new lifestyle, of course. Studies have shown that mindfulness and meditation practices increase gray matter in the hippocampus (increasing memory and focus) and decrease gray matter in the amygdala (decreasing stress and anxiety). I’m a writer.

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Success

JULY 29, 2022

A 2018 article published in the Labor Law Journal looked at the legal implications of working after-hours, discussing how smartphones give employees easy access to their work emails at all hours of the day. All of this, of course, makes it difficult for employees to maintain a work-life balance.

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Success

APRIL 5, 2023

In the course of writing this very article, my preschooler has come into my office (despite another caregiver being home) not once but four times. Gone are the strict 9-to-5s and the recommendation that you just can’t send an email at night without looking… imbalanced. Parents can produce high-quality at home, even after bedtime.

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Office Dynamics

MAY 3, 2018

Unfortunately, burnout is real, it’s draining, emotional, stressful and typically affects both professional and personal lives. Other days are spent marking off tasks from a long to-do list and developing more efficient ways to accomplish goals and meet deadlines. In Utopia, burnout would be a term no one ever used or heard of.

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Worxbee

MAY 10, 2021

They work with executives to help further the goals of the company. A VA helps with the tasks that work toward the goals, but they tend to take a less strategic role. Of course, there’s also the question of how much you pay for the help. You’re spending too much time on emails. That’s a sign you need an EA.

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Productivity Bits

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here’s why: So long as you’re actually seeking imbalance to achieve your goals, GTD (or any set of productivity tools) will never work for you. Survey Says…You Are Stressed! Most of us feel stress, and those of us who do have a hard time doing something about it. None of that is shocking information.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I’m grateful for the email I’m preparing to send to a potential client because I can help them bring more gratitude to their company culture. I’m grateful to record a video for a course I’m building for my audience. In the past, I have struggled with my health (Cancer, ulcer, stress, migraines, etc.)

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Eat Your Career

JULY 28, 2010

Workbooks Stress Management Workbook Time Management Magic Reinvent Your Career Workbook More Tasty Goodness Career Management Consulting Job Interview Coaching Resume Revision Group Training & Public Speaking Eat My WHAT?! My clients were about 99 percent female and my job was to help them meet their weight loss goals.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 31, 2021

Without the right support, it can be incredibly difficult to manage all these contending responsibilities and still focus on your business goals. One way to alleviate some of the stress is to work with an executive assistant.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 30, 2010

» Increase Productivity: Focus on What You CAN Control - Free Yourself from Feeling Overwhelmed/Stressed Thanks for dropping by my blog today.  It seems the more people I talk to, the more I hear about stress, frusteration and the inability to concentrate due to overwhelm.  How do you control overwhelm and stress?

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

How do you measure your progress other than just finishing the pursuit of the 50,000 word goal. If simply finishing is your goal, then yeah, have a beer. Once you fess up to that unspoken goal, everything changes. Because your publishing dream (again, very much like being a parent) is a serious and worthy goal.

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Eat Your Career

MAY 7, 2012

It can be stressful, yes. You’ll start re-evaluating your skills, your values, your career goals and your life dreams in a way that, perhaps, you wouldn’t have done in the safety of employment. That being said, it’s critical that you take a proactive approach to managing your stress. But of course, be respectful of your team.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Join my email list here if you want to get an email when a new episode goes live. What do we need to do to actually achieve this goal. And so that was my goal to to qualify for Boston, because my husband was trying to qualify as well. And it was a very hilly course, I don’t know if you know that about that.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

  I've tried delegating through email, google and drop box.  You, of course, choose which section to drop a task in. 2 - Keep Your Team Coordinated and Aligned to Their Goals. 3 - Declutter Your Email Inbox. It will then show up in Asana with the attachments and everything from the email intact.

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Success

JULY 26, 2022

Throughout the course of the book, the Artist and the Entrepreneur go through a complete life change due to the teachings of The Spellbinder and Billionaire characters. The main point of their lessons is, of course, that the two should get up at 5 a.m. and start cranking on those emails before any of your co-workers and competitors?

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Eat Your Career

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Recently, while leading a workshop on the topic of stress management , one attendee mentioned that her boss was a perfectionist and this was placing an added strain on her daily work experience. Tell the person exactly what you’re seeing and how it’s impacting the goals of the team. Though of course, he or she may never get there.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 30, 2011

Includes an overview of the general principles of organizing, overcoming clutter, paper management techniques, record retention guidelines, filing systems, email management, and time management. CD: Goal Setting for Your Career & Your Life (Audio). Want to not only set goals, but achieve them? 65 Ideas for Reducing Stress.

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Eat Your Career

JUNE 6, 2011

Of course, if you aren’t familiar with the concept, you may have questions about how it all works. They can help you set and achieve career goals , make smart business decisions, overcome workplace challenges , learn new skills or simply offer an outside perspective when you’re facing frustrations at work. Email this to a friend?

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Men With Pens

MAY 14, 2012

It’s nerve-wracking, stressful and not as much fun as you thought it would be when you started it. It shouldn’t be stressful. Now, the Damn Fine Words writing course gives you plenty of writing techniques that help turn you into that confident writer. Write yourself a text message or an email. One good blog post?

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Our inability to control things causes us to stress out. The thing is – and I cannot stress this enough – you don’t try closing them out but must control them. The open loops can become constant source of stress if not controlled. Please signup to my email list to receive free updates from Productivity Bits.

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Visualize your daily goals. It’s important to note that daily goals don’t necessarily have to be work related. Perhaps your goal that day is to spend time with your family or enjoy a day on the golf course.) Perhaps your goal that day is to spend time with your family or enjoy a day on the golf course.)

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 30, 2007

Of course if you do then we will probably stay home so you will be better able to appreciate this special role you can play in your office. My mind seems to go completely blank when it comes to things I have achieved and what goals I want to accomplish. Yes, we are a very humble group of volunteers! Especially the self evaluation part.

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Ian's Messy Desk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Powerful Results come from taking baby steps, one after another, day after day, until you reach your goal. Of course not. Elusive Goals instead of Do-able Goals An elusive goal is “save $5 thousand for down payment for a house”. A do-able goal is “save $100 every week for one year, beginning this week.”

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The Small Business Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." If you have a clear goal in mind for every day, or even each hour, then do all you can to achieve those goals. WinWeb TV Free Small & Home Business Videos for you.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 16, 2010

There will always be 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year (unless it is a leap year of course). PS -- If you've enjoyed this post and want to see more, why not subscribe to our daily emails ( Feedblitz ) or through the RSS Feed ( click here )?  Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Are they smarter?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

    bluehealerdiary   My own, of course! They can carry the to appointments, allowing their physician to review it & connect symptoms w/factors such as stress/other environmental causes. Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? What Do You Do?   Your turn.  To your success!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 19, 2012

I had some background in the subject matters as I had taken college courses and passed. To make the issue more nerve-wracking, I had to take the tests fairly quickly while I was working a job and trying not to get sick from all the stress. Of course, the $1000 still had to come out of my pocket for the tutor and study materials.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 14, 2012

Now break that into a few big parts of that goal. If not, I have at least made progress toward my eventual goal, and I can take another bite tomorrow. If I don't tackle them head on, they will stress me out all day so I try to knock them out as soon as possible. There are antidotes, of course, to overcoming the reluctance.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Be aware and mindful to ask insightful questions now over the course of many months. Try to set up the communication of the office so your boss checks their own emails and responds, but you are in charge of all the mtg coordination, phones, and anything that happens in the office. Get your boss' personal information now.

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Success

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

having already walked four miles with our son in the stroller, having shared a coffee and a chocolate chip scone, having imagined what it would be like to live in that house or maybe even that house over there , when I opened my phone to see a work email with a subject line: “Your Review Is Now Available.”. Then Esquire. Is that making it?

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Here’s the truth: “Epic” is a very poor goal indeed. It’s too high for my tastes, and I’d much rather aim for “good enough” No stress. I wrote it in about an hour, in between emails and phone calls and all sorts of distractions. Looks like we have a little problem, n’est pas?).

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MARCH 25, 2011

I make sure that I send an email to the contacts I met and set up coffee meetings to make a better connection with the ones that I am most interested in pursuing further. My goal now is to "connect" with one or two people and not "collect" from everyone! Not Worth Stressing Out About. Business Card Binder.

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Success

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

My goal is to conquer it today, camp at Naked Ground, then hook up with another trail that takes a less-strenuous 8.5-mile But if I decide it requires too much effort to step outside and pick it up, an electronic edition is already in my email. Of course they also said they were too busy to go with me. I plotted a new course.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2014

For all my new readers, I’ll answer your question by going through your entire email. Compare it to your life goals and how this step will help you reach the next one. Have goals and some strategy, but be open on how you will achieve them. 3) Have stress reduction and coping mechanisms in place.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 4, 2008

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Of course we know that people like this are not the Queen and their self-importance is only from themselves, but they can sure make your life miserable while you are in their kingdom. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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