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How America’s ideal woman got jacked

Vox Open Sourced

She admits she first got interested in weightlifting because of its aesthetic promises — it looked like a fun way to get hot that didn’t involve starving and sprinting herself into a calorie deficit, as she had been doing since college. In some ways, her journey mirrored the culture’s larger shift in rhetoric.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

Success

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. Loney recommends developing a habit she calls “deep work sprints” that can help you make the most of the first half of your workday. And as the workday winds down, whether at 5 p.m.

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The Assistant’s Year-end Sprint

Office Dynamics

There are also 4th quarter “finish line sprints” for assistants to handle: last minute travel itineraries, final year-end planning and execution of financial purchases, turnover of files and projects, and employee transfers to be handled. Oh yes, and budget analysis for the whole year!

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The Assistant’s Year-end Sprint

Office Dynamics

There are also 4th quarter “finish line sprints” for assistants to handle: last minute travel itineraries, final year-end planning and execution of financial purchases, turnover of files and projects, and employee transfers to be handled. Oh yes, and budget analysis for the whole year!

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The 10 Best Goal Setting Apps to Help You Stay on Track

Success

Best for: Those who want to fully integrate their to-do lists with other apps, like email or your calendar Features: Personalize your task views Track activity history and delegate tasks Link with your calendar, voice assistant, Outlook, Gmail, Slack and other tools Collaborate, delegate tasks to other users and leave comments or voice notes or attach (..)

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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

He cautioned that I was running a marathon, not a sprint and I should give myself time to learn and not be too hard on myself if I didn't know everything right away. Gone fishing Next, I started searching through hardcopy files at my desk and electronic ones on the server. That has been good advice.

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Are You Hoarding Ideas?

Men With Pens

You stash, you store, you fill up your hard drive with half-written files and snippets full of good intentions. Think about the files on your computer, the notes you’ve written to yourself, the cheat sheet full of partially formed stuff you’ll do. Choose a single folder on your computer and clean up the files. Just in case.