Posts Tagged Under: mindfulness

The Productivity Box: Perfect your Morning Routine to Lessen Stress and Boost Performance

Are you looking for ways to start your day off right and set yourself up for a productive and stress-free time? Building a strong morning routine is the key to achieving these goals. In this installment of The Productivity Box monthly series, we will explore ten morning habits that can help you lessen stress and boost productivity. Each habit plays a vital role in setting the tone for your day and ensuring that you are in the right mindset to tackle whatever comes your way. So, let’s dive in and discover these transformative habits together!

The Productivity Box: Perfect your Morning Routine to Lessen Stress and Boost Performance

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The Productivity Box: Why Mindfulness Encourages Work Performance

Mindfulness has become a buzzword in recent years, yet, from my experience, it’s so much more. This practice is extremely beneficial for self-awareness, mental health, cognitive function, and, yes, even work performance. So, without further ado, let’s discuss about mindfulness. In this month’s installment of The Productivity Box, we’ll learn how hacking this technique can boost productivity, both on the job and in other areas of life.

The Productivity Box: Why Mindfulness Encourages Work Performance

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The Productivity Box: Untangle your Mind with a Brain Dump

Have you noticed that working in the midst of chaos and clutter makes it hard to perform at your best? That’s because the brain craves order. When you’re organized, it’s easier to think clearly, process information, and focus on the task at hand. Yet, the mind is also prone to chaotic, jumbled thoughts that cause you to ruminate in a continuous inner loop. When you’re in this pattern of overthinking, it can feel almost impossible to concentrate on anything else. That’s where the brain dump strategy comes in.

The Productivity Box: Untangle your Mind with a Brain Dump

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6 Most Productive Ways to Start the Morning

The moment your feet touch the floor each morning, you begin to set the tone for your entire day. So it’s worth asking yourself: Does my morning routine fuel productivity? Or does it just prime my brain for distraction and procrastination? Do I start the morning with intentional practices that energize and motivate me? Or do I scroll mindlessly on social media and create unnecessary anxiety?

Most Productive Ways to Start the Morning

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7 Smart Ways to Make Yourself Useful During Meetings

Meetings are a buzz killer. Most complaints about office work are about meetings. In fact, meetings seem to be the most dreaded office activity. Potentially, even more disliked than peer reviews and evaluations. Yet, meetings continue to be an apt and necessary way to do work. Otherwise, everyone wouldn’t be so keen on organizing them. Hence, we can only derive that there must be something about meetings that is truly valuable. It’s something that, until now at least, only meetings can provide.
Meetings have been studied, and there are countless publications discussing the matter. What’s so special about meetings? It may have to do with the information exchange. Or it may well be due to the nature of the event. The physical proximity, the sheer presence of teams in the same room. It likely has to do with an interplay of the two.
7 Ways to Be Useful in Meetings

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