If you’re spending all day in bed, you want other people to know about it, and be jealous. So provide frequent and descriptive Twitter and Facebook updates about your day. “Gray bird on windowsill.” “Turning over now.” “Tahitian Gardenia candle worth the $20.”
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Hydroponic edible gardens for urban windows – window farms turn our cities’ windows into vertical veggie farms.
Another item to add to the list of dream office requirements (along with Idea Paint, an office dog, and walking workstations).
A great article about a 72-year longitudinal study of the mental and physical well-being of 268 men who entered college in the late 1930. It’s a long article – but worth the read. Lot’s of good stuff here…
Depending on your specific circumstances and your outlook, this standing-at-the-crossroads time can appear as any number of things: an emergency, requiring prompt action, an impasse, a pinch, a predicament, a failure OR a possibility, a milestone and an opportunity. It is a period that can last a day, a week or more than a decade.
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Great tips here. Circulate this to your staff!
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I really identified with this article. Currently I find myself working on the ‘manager’s schedule’ during the week, and the ‘maker’s schedule’ on weekends (the only time when I can work uninterupted for blocks of time). I seem unable to integrate my ‘making’ into my standard working hours as they are currently scheduled. Will need to think about what changes I can make to devote specific blocks of time to each ‘schedule’ and reduce the conflict between the two.
The most valuable gift you can give your employees is permission to fail.
