For example, maybe use the first 30 minutes of your day to answer emails you didn't get to the day before and the last half hour to set long - term strategic goals and specific objectives for the next day.
If you absolutely can't get to it the day you buy it, just keep it loose in your fridge.
I don't get to it every day, but I would be nowhere if it weren't for the accompaniment provided by my Kindle's text - to - speech.
I can
not get to Day 7... I'm catching up on the series this afternoon.
Not exact matches
«We often try
to power through the
day to get more work finished, which might
not be as effective as taking some time
to detach for a few minutes,» Rupp said in a release.
I can't tell you the number of marketing messages I
get each
day that show that the person or company behind that message took no effort
to think about what really matters
to me.
For what it's worth, most IHOP posts
get hundreds, if
not thousands of likes and retweets; last Tuesday, on National Pancake
Day, the brand was mentioned 160 times per minute on Twitter according
to Rebelez.
«I
get criticized for going
to meetings in the United States — and I don't really care at the end of the
day.»
«A lot of the people I talk
to will say, «I had a busy
day but I don't know what I
got done.»
You don't have
to wear yourself out
to get a
day - long mood and brainpower boost.
The hurdles were
not small: He'd need
to get licensed in every state, and somehow account for the fact that most insurance companies won't pay for a new prescription until the old one is just a few
days from running out.
Not only will it help you
get to sleep more quickly, it will also set you up for a productive
day ahead — a double win.
While finding a comfortable bed that allows you
to get enough sleep comes with obvious health benefits, don't neglect the rest of the furniture you use every
day.
According
to the New York Times, scientists discovered that when we sit all
day, «electrical activity in the muscles drops... leading
to a cascade of harmful metabolic effects,» and sadly even
getting regular doses of exercise doesn't offset the damage.
Don't
get me wrong, it's
not as if I hate the clothes I wear
to work every
day; I really like a lot of them.
«You're obviously
not going
to feel your best if you can't find a job or you
get stuck in traffic for hours on end every
day» explains Card Hub CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou.
I want
to test Daniel Coyle's premise that if you practice a skill (really practice,
not just put in the time) for an hour every
day for a year or two, you won't
get ten or twenty times better — you'll
get immeasurably better.
«Try
to make norms explicit with your employees: «I don't expect you
to work after 4 p.m. — or 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. — and if I happen
to send you an email at 10 p.m., I don't expect you
to respond
to it until you
get into the office the next
day.
And some of the players
to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space —
not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo
days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience
to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually
get things right in the long run.
President Nixon's West Wing aides went so far as
to make sure that his wife Pat didn't
get the newspapers delivered in the White House residence during the final
days of Watergate.
Not every scientist
gets to spend her
days mixing concoctions in test tubes or digging up dinosaur bones; every lab needs a senior manager
to keep research teams on track and on budget.
So, you'll have
to learn
to turn a deaf ear
to the complaints about how the new guy or girl doesn't «
get it»; doesn't know every single thing on
day one; isn't fitting into the system or the culture, etc..
«The best way
to make some progress on this... wasn't
to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather
get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one
day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.
It's true that focusing on the present helps you
get tasks done faster, but working on your next
day's
to - do lists will help in two ways: First, you'll help your future self by setting a prioritized list of items in advance, and second, you'll be clearing your mind of tasks you don't need
to worry about today.
Dig Deeper: How
to Build a Culture of Employee Appreciation How
to Create a Company Philosophy: School New Hires on Company History Even if you ask some pointed or provocative questions in the interview and
get the answers you're looking for, your newest recruit isn't going
to be integrated into the company culture on
day one.
Openly opinionated employees give you insights into areas you might
not get to examine on a
day -
to -
day basis.
In a small business, it can sometimes feel like there aren't enough hours in the
day to get everything done.
It takes about three
days to get back on schedule — it's
not easy.
«I
got an email from a founder a few
days ago who said, «I can't wait
to have a shrug emoticon on the cap table.»»
Senior management assembles for 12
days to reflect on what is and isn't working internally, study economic and market research for upcoming trends and changes, and
get feedback from franchisees.
Artificial intelligence is
getting smarter — and more pervasive — by the
day: Facebook recently announced that it's developing a way for its bots
to not only read your private messages, but understand their meaning; Slack is on its way
to having its chat feature answer questions about your job.
Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way
to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't
to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather
get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one
day.
For instance, providing clients with a full update on Tuesday as
to project status is effective, but it is
not recommended that you attempt
to get the client
to agree
to a major decision the same
day.
«In this
day and age, small businesses no longer have
to say, «I'm out of the office right now, I didn't
get your fax,»» says Ramon Ray, author and editor at Smallbiztechnology.com.
And don't forget,
not only is it very expensive
to get into the specialty food market, but you don't
get paid right away; you have
to make your product in advance and store it with an average of 90
days for the money on your sales [from wholesaling]
to come in.
Mother's
Day is coming up soon and if you haven't thought about what
to get your mom, now's the time
to start brainstorming.
It's so easy
to get bogged down in email and other people's
to - do lists that when you look up at the end of the
day you realize you didn't make any progress on the things that are most important.
It took TechCrunch six
days to get used
to not having a home button.
«If you do some deep breathing during the
day, you can calm yourself down and
not let stress
get to you or make you sick.»
So many times we all
get a bit used
to a monotonous
day -
to -
day and often don't ask ourselves the following: «Why are we doing this?»
Organizational hierarchies shouldn't
get ripped apart, and IT resources shouldn't
get diverted from
day -
to -
day operations.
While, of course,
to some extent this has
to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of smoke inhalation - it's important
to simultaneously push against it,
to let your employees know what they need
to get done but
not necessarily how they should go about designing their
day and carrying out their duties.
So many times we all
get a bit used
to a monotonous
day -
to -
day and often don't ask ourselves the following:
Also, you don't need
to log an hour at the gym every
day either
to get maximum benefits.
Don't
get me wrong: I'm an incredibly competitive player, but I want
to play, win, and still smile at the end of the
day, like Branson.
While I can't talk
to every partner every
day,
getting direct, unfiltered feedback allows me
to read the signals.
With U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs set
to take effect within
days, France's top finance official said the EU shouldn't
get caught in a trade war.
Theoretically, a privately held Dell will
not face such pressures although some might argue that the $ 47 billion in debt the company assumed
to get this thing done comes with its own set of stresses, but that's a story for another
day.
Many
days unexpected and interesting situations that arise and I have
to choose
not to panic, and instead
to ask, «What is right about this I am
not getting?»
«It doesn't matter what age you are — your fitness regime is 100 percent important
to get the endorphins running,
get the engine stoked up, and then the rest of the
day and rest of the week you're going
to get tons more done than if you didn't do fitness.»