Stuff that MattRs - #243

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ The Power of a Side-Quest | ✅ Nine (silly) ways to maximise productivity | ✅ How to keep your network warm | ✅ A science backed way to sharpen your brain | ✅ What are your invisible habits? | ✅ Reduce Anxiety and Manage Stress with 4-7-8 breathing | 🔗 MidWord

🔥 Key Stuff: The Power of a Side-Quest

With small experiments, come big shifts.

• Find out how I use experiments to spark growth.
• And get 20 side-quest suggestions you can start today. 

💪🏼  Nine (silly) ways to maximise productivity

Tiny tricks that will get you moving on the next task. (via VeryWell)

• Simple tips that might seem crazy. 
• I use #1 and #7 to get stuff done nearly every day. 

 📞 How to keep your network warm

A practical approach to networking that will boost your career. (via Kellogg)

• Having a generous mindset is the key. 
• This three pronged approach is useful and ‘non-icky’.

🧠  A science backed way to sharpen your brain.

This time, it’s not sudoku or logic puzzles. (via The Conversation)

• New research takes data from 2700 studies.
• Benefits that work for all age groups. 

 🫆 What are your invisible habits?

Most of our habits are invisible, and impact our mental wellbeing. (via Nick Wignall)

• Explore three types of invisible habits.
• Find ways to address them.

🫁  Reduce Anxiety & Manage Stress with 4-7-8 breathing

This simple exercise triggers your natural relaxation response and slows your heart rate. 

• Just two minutes can have a direct effect on how you feel.
• More #freestuff here.

Finally - MidWord. A daily word guessing game with a twist.

My Week Elsewhere

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