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How Will You Measure Your Life?

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Management is a noble position when done right, because it offers the opportunity to build others up. To grow in responsibility and to learn.

A greater consciousness about “Life Strategy” allows you to keep the purpose of your life front and center as you decided how to spend time, talent, and energy.

Allocate your personal resources: allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.

At all costs, avoid the “just this once” mentality to breaking your personal code

Remember the importance of humility– productive behavior stems from the humility that comes with self-deprecating behavior and good treatment of others.

From Clayton M. Christensen at Harvard Business Review:
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Listening to Your Body Clock Can Help Improve Performance

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We all know people who perform better at different times of the day. Research shows that there are also early risers and night owls when it comes to physical performance and athletics.

A British study of an “athletic body clock” revealed three stark categories: Early, Intermediate, and Late.

Research reveals that the physical performance of the “Early” category peaked at noon. Meanwhile, “Intermediate” peaked at 4pm, and “Late” were at their best at 8pm.

When people are forced to perform outside of their body clock’s comfort zone, their prefrontal cortex, which controls sophisticated thought and logic, “remains in a disabled or ‘offline’ state” and takes a long time before it warms up to operating temperature.

It is possible for athletes to retrain their body clocks to perform best at a specific time.

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I’ve Worked From Home for 22 Years – Here’s What I’ve Learned

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Forget about the 8-hour work day. Since the house doesn’t have the distractions of an office, you can likely get more done more quickly. So don’t get hung up on whether the clock on the wall says 5 p.m.– set clear goals about the required tasks for the day, and log off once they are completed.

Build human interaction– through zoom or phone calls– into the day to avoid feelings of isolation– which can bog down productivity and negatively affect mental health.

Do the more “brainless” tasks, like clearing out the inbox, later in the day. In the early part of the day, when the brain is fresh, tackle the more applied or creative tasks at hand.

“Choose three things a day” – structure your day around three main tasks. Addressing these will structure your schedule, and help you avoid feeling lost in a “sea of work and deadlines”

Respect and work with your natural energy cycles– understand that full productivity, 5 days a week, is not possible. Productivity downturns are natural. Take them as a sign to take a break and return to the computer refreshed.

From Alexandra Samuel at The Wall Street Journal:

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A Profession Is Not a Personality

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In today’s fast-paced work culture, too many of us “self-objectify” in the workplace, striving past our own physical or mental comfort zones to become “work machines” and “tools of performance.”

If work conditions give us the feeling of “being used as a tool,” rather than feeling recognized and valuable in a work environment, and not being recognized as an agent in the working environment, we are more likely to experience burnout, depression, and other workplace issues.

Brooks wants readers to ask themselves: Is your job the biggest part of your identity? Do you find yourself sacrificing love relationships for work? Do you have trouble imagining being happy if you were to lose your job or career? If you answer in the affirmative, to any or all of these, you might accidentally be self-objectifying in the workplace.

Brooks offers two helpful tactics to self-objectifying in the workplace: 1) enforcing a strict work/life boundary on weekends and on vacations and 2) Spend time with people who have no connection to your work.

Brooks notes that it takes courage to experience your full life and true self when work demands so much of us, but that we must!

From Arthur C. Brooks at The Atlantic:

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