Sentences with phrase «did get more out of it»

One weekend that we did get more out of it than we thought might have been possible was at COTA.

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And put that way, it seems a bit more daunting from a taxpayer's point of view, especially when there's very little governments can or need to do to fix Canada's affordable housing crisis — other than get out of the way.

A mindful approach to work and resistence to distractions results in getting a lot more done without making a big parade out of the work day.

New research from Stanford shows that productivity per hour declines sharply when the workweek exceeds 50 hours, and productivity drops off so much after 55 hours that you don't get anything out of working more.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Rather than relying solely on user - generated content, it's betting that slickly produced videos of pros using its cameras to do amazing things will inspire regular people to get out there even more.

You may believe you're already doing this, but in the day - to - day crunch of getting things done, your RAS is most likely filtering out more dream - related information than it's letting in.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

You may try something else later on, but you will get way more out of it and I don't care what the starting salary is.

Advice abounds this time of year, and Katie Morrell recently offered tips on the Open Forum blog, including pre-planning activities and structure for your intern to prevent you running around the office trying to find things for your intern to do once they arrive, as well as regular check - ins to ask about their experience and swap tasks they hate for to - dos they'll get more out of.

Technology doesn't offer that, especially as people seem to be trying more than ever these days to get out of their inbox.»

Questions like this barely scratch the surface of the advice on offer — I didn't even mention the seemingly endless parade of apps and gizmos offering to help you get more done that you could test out and evaluate.

But instead of listing out ways to be more productive or get out of work one hour earlier, I'm going to take a look at what really successful people do instead.

We want the hardware to do its job and get out of the way — we're tired of celebrating the box and now we're paying far more attention to the beef.

«Somehow, we didn't get hit with a tidal wave of selling that many expected... despite all the sturm und drang about little Rocket Man in North Korea or the sheer impotence of Congress or Trump's tweets that often seem, let's say, out of step with folks like Washington, Jefferson [and] Lincoln, to name three of our more presidential presidents,» the «Mad Money» host said.

It's a compelling premise: that you can get more done at work, better understand your co-workers, and generally like your life more if you take some of the tension out of the string.

You need to get more out of your leads, and when you do, your profitability will soar.

Lots of people do most of their computing in a web browser, and Chrome OS can get more out of weaker hardware.

The Series 3 lasts about a day on a charge, but you can get more out of it if you don't get notifications from every app on your iPhone.

The University of Calgary's School of Public Policy recently pointed out that Canadian corporations actually do more taking over than getting swallowed.

Ultimately I was just grabbing a good opportunity: A chance to learn, to build a skill, to enjoy a different experience, to get my name and face out there more, to have fun... when you can get all that from an opportunity, it doesn't need to be part of a master plan.

Knowing that I wouldn't get any credit for the indoor workouts I did at the gym (and seeing the giddy look on my dog's face every time I took his leash out of the cabinet), I started opting to take him out more frequently.

He says: «Even if you are out $ 100,000 and you only recoup $ 80,000 of it, given that you will get it quickly and given what can you do with that to create more cash and stay on top of expenses, it may be worth the cost.

We have to fund innovations, we have to seed new ways of doing things and we have to get them in place so we can get the money out of the system that is being spent unnecessarily today without getting good results for patients and is causing more complexity than necessary.»

«You actually get more mileage out of getting kicked out than if you didn't get kicked out,» Carton said to him.

This doesn't just mean your audience, but your peers as well: you stand to get far more if you reach out and take action to build your network of connections.

As a professional, you can only be helping out one client at any moment of the day, and since you never get to live the same day twice, you're giving away something more valuable by persisting with a client who doesn't take your advice.

If you're not crazy about sending emails, you might approach it with an attitude that's more focused on getting it out of the way than doing it really well — and that's a problem.

Either way, when I got several days behind on my goal of doing 100,000 pushups this year (more on that here) I wondered how it would feel, physically and emotionally, to keep grinding out a ton of pushups, hour after hour.

... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.

If it makes more sense to use the remote that is provided, get familiar with it before starting so you don't get flustered and make a hash out of your presentation.

More and more I want to get out of the city and do something that's closer to the eaMore and more I want to get out of the city and do something that's closer to the eamore I want to get out of the city and do something that's closer to the earth.

Because if you look at Prime members, they buy more on Amazon than non-Prime members, and one of the reasons they do that is once they pay their annual fee, they're looking around to see, «How can I get more value out of the program?»

The beauty is that the latter groups usually seem to get a lot more out of what I'm sharing than the cool kids do.

Open - book management doesn't cause someone to accept less money; it just enables both the company and employee to get more out of their time together.

Perhaps I'm more of the creative type and just don't get the same thrill out of execution that I do from generating new ideas.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

As the leader, always push to do more with less, and you'll get the most out of your teammates.

And it very much is a «system» — it necessitates you square off a whole room to get the most out of its positional tracking system, but if you do, you'll have more freedom to interact with a virtual space than the Rift can currently provide.

And even if you don't see a single tree on your jaunt out of the office, getting away from the need to think about work, keep up appearances, and make small talk with colleagues will make your break hugely more refreshing, Jarrett reports.

Not only is multitasking not helping you get more done, the study out of the University of Sussex in the UK indicates, it might actually be physically harming your brain.

Nobody cares more about your money than you do, so don't wait for someone else to tell you how to save or invest or get out of debt.

For more on what it takes to be successful in today's highly competitive business world, get Steve's new book, Real Leaders Don't Follow: Being Extraordinary in the Age of the Entrepreneur, and check out his blog at stevetobak.com.

However, nine times out of 10, the path to getting rich is more about not doing something rather than doing it.

If you let people you're traveling with or meeting on the road know in advance that you're going to need time to get things done, they will be much more understanding when you have to bow out before that third round of drinks.

Getting stronger There is a probably no more cited quote of Nietzsche (often misquoted, actually) as this, also from Twilight of the Idols: «Out of life's school of war: What does not kill me makes me stronger.»

While it's not always be the easiest thing to do, there are ways you can more effectively get the most out of your day.

If this does not convince you then you need to get out of the house more often.

I believe my coaches and I get more out of it than the kids do.

This feature in a note says that if I gave you $ 25,000 and you sold the company without raising more money or before maturity (i.e. my note didn't convert) then I get $ 50,000 out of the proceeds of the sale.