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# Stuff that MattRs - #242
- URL: https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/stuff-that-mattrs-242/
- Published: 2025-06-09T05:00:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-09T05:00:13.000Z
- Description: Another week of insights for YOU and YOUR career, the perfect Monday boost.
- Author: Matt
- Tags: Newsletter

**This Weeks Stuff:** ✅ How to be great | ✅ How successful people timebox | ✅ Do you have a third place? | ✅ A guide to doing nothing | ✅ Root for your friends | ✅ The art of stillness | 🔗 Lazy Tetris

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### 🔥 Key Stuff: [How to be great](https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

It’s much simpler than you think to be successful ([via Josh Spector](https://fortheinterested.com/subscribe/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk))

- Greatness is something that you need to earn
- Fortunately, it is achievable through consistency

###  📆 [How successful people timebo](https://www.nirandfar.com/timeboxing-success/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)x

A reminder of the most effective productivity tool ([via Nir Eyal](https://www.nirandfar.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk))

- Find out how high performing people set up their calendar
- Then learn how you can do the same for maximum success.

### ☕️ [Do you have a third place?](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/radical-sabbatical/202407/the-power-of-third-places-in-effective-leadership?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk) 

Psychologists believe having a place that isn’t work or home is important. 

- Find out what a third place can do for your leadership
- Here are some more ideas for ‘[third places](https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/third-place-community-spaces/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)’.

###  🛌 [A guide to doing nothing](https://www.self.com/story/guide-to-doing-nothing?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

Some great guidance on chilling out. ([via Self Magazines Rest Week](https://www.self.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk))

- We all need some rest
- Reframe how you view ‘me time’.

### 👯 [Root for your friends](https://josephthacker.com/personal/2025/05/13/root-for-your-friends.html?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

Discover how the ‘Hypeman Flywheel’ can benefit EVERYONE involved. 

- Learn how to find the friends who root for you
- And uncover ways you can be a great friend for those around you

### 🧳 [The art of stillness](https://www.ted.com/talks/pico%5Fiyer%5Fthe%5Fart%5Fof%5Fstillness?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk)

Travel writer Pico Iyer explains a quest for calm. ([Video via Ted](https://www.ted.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk))

- With stillness comes incredible insight.
- Iyer explains strategies for us all to find a few minutes or hours of each day for calm

### Finally - [Lazy Tetris](https://lazytetris.com/?ref=mattrutherford.co.uk), an idle update to the classic timewaster.

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## My Week Elsewhere

Some updates from the week, great media & music recommendations and some great listens from my ears to yours.

[My Week Elsewhere](https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/weeknote-24/)

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****Weekly Journal Prompt:** Write about a person who has positively influenced your life. [Another random prompt.](https://www.mattrutherford.co.uk/prompt/)

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