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Make Every Day Count

Chad Barr

Everyone needs a good rest and time to reenergize after an intense day at work or a lifetime of doing. I’ve learned that trying to control every aspect of business is impossible and it’s more beneficial to stop worrying over every detail and little thing. Somehow, perhaps magically, everything works out.

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12 Timeless and Stimulating Time Management Quotes

Rick Conlow

May your days ahead find these helpful to you and add fullness to your days. “The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.” “Do not count every hour in the day. ” Abraham Lincoln.

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How to Generate Referrals Without Asking

Successful Independent Consulting

We can redesign the client experience to make ourselves more referable, we can mine our client lists for new potential referrers, we can reach out more broadly to our existing communities, etc. Make a spreadsheet, listing all of your clients from the last 2-4 years. Of course, there are all sorts of ways to generate more referrals.

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Easier Product Development Decisions and Why Backlogs Might Slow You Down (Day 3)

Johanna Rothman

Part 2 was about cycle time and using Cost of Delay to make easier decisions. I want to make those interruptions easier to manage. I don't count emails, Slack, etc. I only count words more than one person can consume. Almost every day, even now, when many people are taking this week off from work.

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Common Career Benefits: The Good, The Bad, and The Unused

Tom Spencer

Rather than a specified three or four weeks of vacation per year, some companies offer a seemingly infinite quantity of PTO days, subject to manager approval (this last part is key). On the surface it seems like you could take off every other week if you wanted to, but instead the average employee ends up taking fewer holidays.

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Timeless Wisdom to Unlock and Thrive

Chad Barr

Winston Churchill: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” ” Takeaway : We often get lost in complexity, thinking it makes us look smarter or more advanced. .” Action trumps inaction, every single time. Even when you hit a wall, never lose your hope.

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The defensive arrogance of TL;DR

Seth Godin Blog

Every since there has been high school, there has been the instinct to read the Cliffs Notes. Back in the old days of ‘slow traditional culture’ there were plenty of conversations, music in the parlor and even daydreams about dating. But we didn’t count those.

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