Tagged: Help yourself

Help us, help you! Lessons in self-help: how to help yourself make your job (and thus your life) easier.

08
Sep
2019
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What we’ve learned about taking lunch breaks

Reading Time: 4 minutes

Reading time: 4 minutes If you have the luxury of choosing when to take your lunch break each day, you might sometimes find it appealing to cut it short to “get more done”, or worse… just work through. We set out to take our full lunch break every day to see what would happen. So what did happen? Read on…

22
Dec
2018
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Just write it!

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Reading time: 2 minutes A statement of intention to become a better writer.

22
Dec
2018
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Working a four day week

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Reading time: 3 minutes What changed when I made the leap to an eight day fortnight.

22
Dec
2018
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Inbox zero

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Reading time: 3 minutes I’m feeling pretty smug right now — I’ve achieved 21st century zen: the elusive Inbox Zero. I did it and you can too, let me explain…