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How to Stay Connected and Productive Working Remotely
I've been working remotely since 2002. At one point, I managed a team of up to 18 people globally. I had a manager I worked with for six years, and…
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Portion Distortion
Twenty years ago a serving of soda was considered 6.5 ounces. A bottle of Coke was sold to serve three people, whereas now a 20-ounce serving is the norm. How can you trick yourself in this super-size world?
Party! Booze! Sugar! Business Travel Rocks!
At home do you….
Exercise, wind down at 8pm, make sure you eat at least one vegetable, stick to 1-2 cups of coffee, stop at one cookie, and stop checking email after 9?
When you travel do you…
Hit snooze, check email until 11pm, eat fast food, drink coffee all day long, take advantage of the corporate per diem at the bar, keep yourself awake by eating cookies all afternoon and forget what a vegetable is?
My Information Vacation for an Overflowing Brain
Do you feel like there’s so much information that you can’t possibly keep up?
Do you cringe every time your friend says ‘did you see that post/click on that link/read that book?
Maybe you need an Information Vacation.
Five Things to do Before You Hire an Assistant
Are you ready to outsource some of that stress?
Are you ready to hand over the reins and stop working on $10 an hour tasks?
Are you afraid that no one, and I mean no one, can create a spreadsheet as well as you?
Give it up. Let it go.
Move in to your line of genius and hire an assistant.
Healthy People are Boring. Productivity is Rigid.
How many times have you heard this or thought this yourself?
Do you feel like your friends, families or co-workers sabotage you?
Are you afraid you'll lose your spontaneity and be licensed to a life of routine?
Do you think that you will never celebrate a birthday with a piece of cake or be able to work creatively because you're on a schedule?
Enough already. Healthy people are fun. Productive people are fun. You're just making excuses not to uplevel.
Travel Packing Lists
What items are you most likely to forget?
Your power cord? Underoos? A toothbrush?
Have you traveled all day without hangry snacks and wanted to fight someone for their peanuts?
Stop wingin' it and use a list.
Sexy Systems to Save You
Think wingin' it makes you spontaneous and sexy? Yeah, dropping the ball, missing an appointment or forgetting to pack your unders is totally sexy (well, going commando can be). Success is sexy and systems can get you there.
The 431 Project. Making Healthy The New Normal.
On September 25, an exclusive group of 100 industry leaders, executives and visionaries convened on Riverside Farm, home of Joe De Sena of Spartan Racing, to brainstorm and develop a plan to make healthy the new normal. We're called The 431 Project.
The theme of the event was “What would I tell my 15 year-old self?”
What would you say?
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