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15 Ways to Reset Your Creativity

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I talk a lot about the importance of unplugging to recharge your productivity and reset your creativity, but not all of us have the luxury of working from home at a schedule we set. Here’s a list of ways, both big and small, to hit the proverbial reset button. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Motivation Tagged With: creativity, emotional recharging, exercise, productivity, recharge, recharging, Reset Creativity, unplugging

5 Routines to Add to Your Workday for Max Productivity

By Marissa Brassfield 07/26/12

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Many successful people are creatures of habit in some way; these routines to add to your workday are sure to crank up your productivity. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Productivity, Ridiculously Efficient, Work Productivity Tagged With: automation, email, email efficiency, emotional recharging, exercise, focus, focus techniques, meditate, meditation, power hour, power hours, power nap, productivity, recharge, recharging, work productivity

Recharge on the Fly With a 10-Minute Nap

By Marissa Brassfield 07/25/12

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New research indicates that a 10-minute nap is the ideal way to recharge our energy and calm our brains. Has the classic power nap taken a Ridiculously Efficient twist? [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Productivity, Productivity, Ridiculously Efficient Tagged With: emotional recharging, nap, personal productivity, power nap, productivity, recharge, recharging, sleep

TED Talk Tuesday: Brad Feld on Going Off the Grid

By Marissa Brassfield 07/24/12

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In this dynamic TED Talk, Brad Feld discusses Theme 7 from the first chapter of his book “Do More Faster.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Motivation Tagged With: Brad Feld, downtime, emotional recharging, recharge, recharging, TED, vacation, vacation policies

Will You Participate in the National Day of Unplugging?

By Marissa Brassfield 03/22/12

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The National Day of Unplugging is a cause after my own heart that asks participants to take a “digital detox” between sunset on March 23 and sunset on March 24. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal Productivity, Productivity Tagged With: downtime, emotional recharging, focus techniques, National Day of Unplugging, Reboot, recharge, recharging

Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day?

By Marissa Brassfield 01/5/12

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Barry Glassman of Glassman Wealth Services pays for every employee to spend one day each quarter out of the office thinking up ideas to benefit the company in what’s called a Thinking Day. Could such a practice benefit your office? [Read more...]