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How to quit fast fashion: ‘Sometimes we don’t need retail therapy, we need actual therapy’
February 21, 2024
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NIMONA (2023) – My rating: 7.5/10
February 21, 2024
Nimona is an animated science fantasy adventure comedy directed by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane from a screenplay by Robert L. Baird and Lloyd Taylor. It is based on the 2015 graphic novel of the same name by ND Stevenson. Set in a science fantasy world influenced by the Middle Ages. The film is about […]
NIMONA (2023) – My rating: 7.5/10
Remembering Black Nurses in WWII
February 20, 2024
7 common mistakes we make when working from home
February 20, 2024
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Since the pandemic, remote or hybrid working has become the norm for most of us, with many employers deciding to ditch the traditional, five-day office work schedule.
And while remote working seems like the dream flexible job — not having to join the rush-hour commute, no office distractions, and tons of money saved on overpriced lunches, it can also be challenging in its own right. In fact, once the novelty wears off, many remote workers often feel stretched, non-productive, or struggle to find a work-life balance.
Be it not having a proper work set-up, structuring your day or simply developing unhealthy habits, many different things can impact on our mental health and work productivity.
So if you feel like you’ve lost your “mojo” and need motivation, be sure to avoid these 7 common mistakes we make when working from home.
1. Not setting up a designated workspace
While it might seem tempting to work from bed or snuggled up on your cozy sofa, not having a proper workspace is a common mistake remote workers make. Even if you don’t have a spare room to create a home office, you should create a boundary between home life and work.
If you can, allocate a specific area such as a corner in your living room, or even unused space under the stairs that could be converted into an “office nook.” In addition, invest in one of the best desks or best standing desks to suit your space and needs. Since you’ll spend most of the day sitting down, one of the best office chairs will help you get the right posture and work more efficiently.
That said, you could work in a library, local coffee shop, or even a designated co-working space if you don’t particularly feel productive some days. Our work environment plays a major role in how productive, healthy, and successful we are.
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How to stop looking at your phone
February 20, 2024
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Molly Elwood, a copywriter in Portland, Oregon, started using a screen-time monitoring app earlier this year and was unnerved when she discovered she was on her phone 11 hours in one day. Once, she couldn’t get off the Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/e-mail merry-go-round while riding in the passenger seat during a road trip and ended up carsick.
Tiffani Patel, a massage therapist, yoga instructor, and personal chef in Austin, Texas, knew she needed to make a change when she realized she was choosing Instagram over her dog Forrest, a mutt she says is “85 pounds of love.”
“What am I doing?” she thought. “There’s a live, beautiful animal in my home, and he’s not going to be around forever.” She got rid of social media apps.
Catherine Price, a writer in Philadelphia, browsed eBay for Victorian-era door knobs instead of paying attention to her newborn baby during a feeding. When she finally glanced at her daughter’s face — illuminated by the blueish light of a phone screen and looking at her mama — Price’s heart sank, and she realized it was time to make a change. She ended up writing a book called How to Break Up With Your Phone.
“Changing your relationship with your phone can have effects that are surprisingly profound,” Price says. “I’m a happier person, and that came directly from changing my relationship with the metal rectangle in my pocket. I thought it would be just better time management.”
Coincidentally, Patel, Elwood, and Price all took up the guitar after breaking up with their phones. They had the time all along; it was just getting sucked by a small, shiny screen. How much time? According to screen-time tracking app Moment, the average user of the app picks up his or her phone 52 times a day and spends 3 hours, and 57 minutes using it. And those are people who have chosen to track their screen time.
Overcoming a smartphone addiction — and yes, many experts consider compulsively checking your phone a behavioral addiction, similar to gambling — has the potential to improve your relationships, sleep, physical fitness, and mental health.
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Remembering The Buffalo Soldiers
February 20, 2024
Remembering the Harlem HellFighters
February 19, 2024
Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper, African American Civil Rights Activist
February 19, 2024
AMERICAN SYMPHONY (2023) – My rating: 9.5/10
February 19, 2024
“American Symphony” is a biographical documentary film, written, shot, and edited by Matthew Heineman. The film explores a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste, chronicling his music career (including his 11 nominations at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards) and the struggles he and his wife, Suleika Jaouad, face with leukemia. Jon Batiste, being […]
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Why Strategic Slowness Is the Next Big Trend for 2024, According to a Stanford Management Professor
February 19, 2024
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If I had to choose a word to describe the ambient feeling as 2024 gets underway, I’d have to go with “exhaustion.”
After all the turmoil of Covid, post-pandemic inflation, and return-to-office battles, “there no longer seems to be a revolutionary project roiling the knowledge sector,” wrote author and professor Cal Newport in The New Yorker recently. “Office workers seem to have retreated into a pervasive atmosphere of fatigue.”
He concludes, “What started with the Great Resignation has become the Great Exhaustion.”
That certainly jives with my own personal state of mind at the start of 2024. Will this overarching feeling of tiredness be our lot for the rest of the year? Nope, answers Stanford management professor Bob Sutton. But it may lead us into the next great trend to hit workplaces. He terms it “strategic slowness.”
Will 2024 be the year leaders finally hit the brakes?
This prediction comes as part of an interesting project from journalist Katie Couric. On LinkedIn recently, she gathered a group of CEOs and other business thought leaders to answer the question “What will be the next big thing in 2024?” You can check out their diverse and interesting answers here, but the one that really caught my eye came from Stanford’s Sutton, who is known for his popular books and straight talking.
“Strategic slowness will be the key to success for innovative leaders and companies in the coming year,” he predicts. Why? Because the era of “move fast and break things” (as Facebook’s first motto memorably put it) has led to some colossal, high-profile failures.
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