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Why More Play Is the Key to Creativity and Productivity

By Matt Davis — 2019

Adult recess and other apparently ridiculous activities may be one of the best ways to feel, work, and be better.

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Why Do We Work too Much?

Our tendency to work too much is neither arbitrary nor sinister: it’s a side effect of the haphazard nature in which we allow our efforts to unfold.

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Cal Newport
2021
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Why Adults Should Play, Too

Play is essential to our health

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Amy Chillag
2017
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How Stephen Covey’s ‘The 7 Habits’ Guides Leaders in Times of Challenge and Uncertainty

The 30th-anniversary edition of ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ offers new insight to help us deal with our current challenges.

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Marcel Schwantes
2020
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5 Ways to Overcome Procrastination by Jack Canfield

I’ve worked with a lot of people over the years. And without exception, the single biggest obstacle that has held them back from achieving their goals has always been—themselves! We haven’t learned how to overcome procrastination and laziness.

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Jack Canfield
2019
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Should I Disclose My Depression to My Employer?

As a general rule, I’d only disclose a mental-health condition (or any health condition, for that matter) at work when you need to ask for a specific accommodation connected with it.

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Alison Green
2021
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A Walking Away Point

Stress can make us press forward without recognizing the wall, but the quality of the work suffers because we no longer see the project with clarity.

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Miguel Ruiz, Jr.
2013
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Interview with Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. Here he fields questions from Michael Sliwinski in this Productive Magazine interview.

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Productive Magazine
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A Meditation Teacher Told Us 3 Ways to Keep Your Phone from Running Your Life

Here are three ways to have a more peaceful smartphoned life.

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Drake Baer
2016
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Why the Concept of Retirement Is Destructive and Needs to Be Replaced

As long as we keep using the word retirement or any derivative such as “the new retirement,” that whiff of withdrawal, of closure, of endings will linger. And so will visions of what the word evoked a generation ago.

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Prudy Gourguechon
2018
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How to Be More Productive by Working Less

Productivity is more about what you don’t do than what you do. Focused effort on your most important tasks is a skill that can be practiced and perfected.

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Mark Manson
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