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#220 - not before noon!
A chance to set goals and commitments for the New Year, the opportunities from being wrong and no meetings before noon to maximise productivity. Plus cheerful news from the last year, and a game for music heads.
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👓 Welcome to 2025 - Intentions
For the third year running, I'm not adopting resolutions. I'll set some intentions for the New Year, and create some small habits and systems to support them.
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#219 - Purushartra or Ikigai?
Happy Holidays from Stuff! A foolproof and lightweight annual review process, and a CV trick that can elevate your job hunt. Plus, ways to rest over the holiday season, some indian wisdom and a great travel game!
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#218 - Start... Ping!
It's time to finish the work year with a burst of flow productivity, and then tap into Ernest Hemingway to finish anything you start. I look at some great tips for living better, and challenge you to open the microwave door at the right time!
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#217 - fix your meetings!
Great techniques for improving the quality of meetings plus ways to control your emotions and be a better leader. Fifty learnings from 2024, an AI hack for learning about yourself and finally a memory test.
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#216 - Exquisite Listening
A great exercise to set your team up for excellence plus ten more free websites for you to bookmark. A key idea from each of the top ten business books and a way to be thankful for your life. Finally - a binary game that will challenge everyone!
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#215 - Build Your Best Year
This week, I'm launching a lightweight way to plan for your best year ever, and looking at the skill that sets leaders apart at work. We avoid toxic positivity and find 1000 questions to save wisdom. Finally think of a number and double it quickly!
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#214 - Is it Arse or Ass?
This week, I'm looking at presentation skills, productivity tips and best practices for working in global teams. I also have some new journal prompts, ways to deal with unpleasant people and a blast from the past to take a break with!
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#213 - Discover your value(s)
This week, I'm looking Core Values and how you can define yours. I have some great decision tools and ways to reduce tech distractions. I look at wins, and ways to protect your peace - before another old favourite distraction.
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#212 - 100% Glimmer & Rizz
I cover some great skills for decision making, and look at how you build rapport. We'll tackle the 'no excuse' hour, and find a simple formula for career decisions. We'll also find out about glimmers, rizz and play an old favourite - revamped.
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#211 - The Monk Inside
This week, I'm looking at delegation skills, bad behaviour at work and time management according to St Benedict. I'm sharing ways to build your confidence, some excellent mental models and a great game for a break today.
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#210 - Hikea or Lower?
I'm looking at digital organisation, for career or personal life. How to develop your negotiation skills, and the illusion of productivity. We examine positivity, look at some reflections on life and how to handle some difficult emotions. Finally, we have some fun with Ikea.
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#209 - Limbo, daily.
We're laser focused on setting boundaries and protecting time as well as improving our active listening. I look at when time management was easy, and what confident people do. Then we look at contentment, great books and how to limbo, daily.
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#208 - Curiosity + Failure = Brilliance
This week, I have advice to help you handle feedback, and ways to motivate your team remotely (and when under pressure). I look at how Flow state works, who can see the most blue and finally, we decide who came first.
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#207 - Do it your way!
Some advice to help you update your career plan and to balance your work-life. I look at creating psychological safety at work and ways to be the grey stone at work. There are some life shortcuts that work and finally, a great word game.
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#206 : Thermostat or Thermometer?
Insights to help you improve your completer-finisher skills, and what you can get when the work is done. Some random ideas about life, and advice about changing the temperature of the work environment. Finally, squish some ants.
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👓 #205 - Clarity affords Focus
Learn ways to fuel your success by handling ambiguity like a pro, understand the ABC goal system and get ten more free sites that you should bookmark. Find out how to say ‘no’ and be happy, why sleep is the ally of creativity and play a fun daily movie game.
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👓 #204 - Shake it Off!
A great framework for understanding how your team works and some tips for being a great manager. Find out how to lead in times of uncertainty, and 100 tricks to make life better. Finally - play the defrag game!
