Success
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Instead of checking your email or Instagram the moment you wake up, fall into a productive morning routine that helps set the tone for a productive day. This four-hour period consists of a recurring ultradian rhythm, which is like a 90-minute mental sprint followed by a five- to 20-minute mental recovery.
Success
APRIL 5, 2023
Most of the family-friendly benefits that employers offer occur during the first sprint of parenting—pregnancy and postpartum—and then drop off; but our study showed that it’s the marathon of parenting—beyond parental leave—when parents need support most.” Parents still need child care to work remotely.
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JULY 21, 2021
It was nearly dark when I sprinted the 100 meter all-out. I let all my emotions seep out into my sprints. I emailed the head coach, Kevin Reid, letting him know my goals and dreams and that I was interested in transferring from Boulder. He emailed me back within just a few days. I felt like my dreams might be taken away.
Success
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Schwartz, founder and CEO of The Energy Project, advocates for a work style based on a series of sprints rather than a marathon. Email, for example, saps and squanders mental energy that could be applied to more meaningful work. expose the problems stemming from relentless hours at the desk.
Productivityist
MARCH 26, 2018
You may even want to set up your email autoresponder to let people know they won’t receive a response for a few days. If your schedule does not allow this, you can always try doing a Weekly Sprint when you return to work; you could schedule meetings or admin work for a specific one-hour (or another fixed amount of time) slot each day.
Productivityist
OCTOBER 5, 2017
Before email? Weekly Sprints. Common Horizontal Themes include exercise, morning and evening routines, email review, and social media updating. Now, this may seem obvious because both of those tools house vital information for your day, but when was the last time you scanned those two things first before doing anything else?
Executive Assistant Breakthrough
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
I’d be sprinting to drop it off in time at 9 am before the last chime of the bell. Which means that even though you love writing and really wanted to crank out that book chapter this weekend, you may still find that you cleared out 800 junk emails and re-organized your sock drawer, but have no book chapter to show. Fear can be sneaky.
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