Productivity

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6 ways to use music to increase your productivity Krista Gray

Whether you’re using it to pump you up to work out when you’re tired or to unwind for a better night’s sleep, music is a powerful motivator in many different situations. According to the team at Brain.fm, functional music — which has specific characteristics — can also be ultra-helpful when you want to stay focused at work. Read More

7 tactics to help you keep engaged at work in the heat Ladders Contributor

It can be really difficult to motivate yourself to tackle a mountain of emails when your get up and go, has got up and gone – to a beach, with a sangria in one hand and an ice-lolly in the other. Read More

The truth about 3 great career tips that you’ll never hear LaRae Quy

Three great career tips that you will never hear — they are simple, but very important, if you want a career built around what is meaningful to you. Read More

Tired at work? Try out this new nap pod lounge Monica Torres

When you work in an office that may be an impossibility. Enter the rise of the nap pod service for employees seeking a relaxing break from office drudgery. Read More

How to recover when you get someone’s name wrong in an email Jane Burnett

Messing up someone’s name is so embarrassing. But with the number of emails that find their way into our inboxes every day, it’s probably happened to you. Read More

15 tiny ways to have a much better day Maxie McCoy

A day is just an ordinary day. We live so many of them. Sunrise to sundown, these days can feel long as hell. And these days can also feel so drudgingly slow, like they’ll never actually end. But what does it look like for an ordinary day to feel so damn full? … Read More

How to stay creative in a sea of corporate boredom Todd Brison

Very few people think they are creative. Most believe it’s a magical gift which is bestowed upon the smartest, wildest, or best looking. Not true. Read More

10 bad habits that might actually mean you're smarter than you think Ladders Contributor

Here are 10 formerly bad habits, that might actually be good for you, and may even mean that you’re smarter than you think. Read More

Accelerate your learning curve with these 5 practical tips Darius Foroux

I firmly believe there’s a difference in the way we learn. You can spend 10,000 hours doing something and learn nothing. Read More

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