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When to Work Out: Choosing the Right Time for Your Body

Tom Spencer

Exercising is incredibly important when it comes to maintaining a healthy body and mind, so you need to incorporate it into your routine to optimize yourself for a lengthy and productive consulting career. The bottom line is to get in a workout no matter what. Make sure to stretch and fully wake up before trying to lift any heavy weights.

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Intentional design (and complicated systems)

Seth Godin Blog

Intentional design is the most productive kind. Take this simple product found at a Hilton hotel, designed and sold by a division of Sysco, the giant food service company. Take this simple product found at a Hilton hotel, designed and sold by a division of Sysco, the giant food service company.

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Sound Psychology: Hacking Music for Optimal Performance

Tom Spencer

Both movies and video games offer instrumental options, but often also have faster beats and higher energy tracks which can keep you awake while reading. This is when you choose the highest energy hit songs , intense EDM music , or funky remixes of your favorite tunes. Motivation. Finally – you made it to the end of the day.

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Consultant Marketing Trust Factor

Jerry Fletcher

Your team includes all the folks that get credit when the job is done, the objective reached, or the product is delivered. Trust lowers your stress and makes you more productive. That is true whether the business is a product, a service or a combination of the two. Your Company. Trust is essential. Just a hired hand?

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How I Make My Decisions to Speak at Conferences

Johanna Rothman

The decisions I make are about my product development and my Costs of Delay. They paid coach airfare and my hotel room for the entire conference because it was a track talk. No hotel reimbursement before or after the two days of the conference. Sometimes, I'm not available. More often, I can't “afford” to do so.

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Unvarnished Ukraine Update; Steen Jakobsen on Impact of Ukraine on Germany

MishTalk

The Ukraine crisis will go on for much longer than anyone wants, everyone will lose and world growth will disappoint again, but the real issue behind the scenes is Europe’s lack of a coherent energy policy. The present green energy policy is a mess. Europe is energy deficient. Oil imports reached 83.5 per cent in 2009 and 64.2

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. This means that significant advancements are required in areas such as energy storage to pave the way for long distance electric aviation.

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