If you have a Google account, you automatically get free access to Google Calendar. But going to the website to check your calendar can take time. If you spend your workday on a desktop or laptop computer, you probably can easily see the benefits of being able to launch an app and see your upcoming …
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As an entrepreneur, you often juggle a pretty chaotic schedule, and staying organized is the biggest roadblock to success. Whether it’s untimely meetings, making meaningful progress, or developing a start-up strategy — entrepreneurs have a full plate. Being task-oriented is critical to an entrepreneur’s success, and it begins with getting organized. Any entrepreneur knows that …
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International Women’s Day began in the 1900s to celebrate women’s political, economic, social, and cultural achievements. This day is a pledge to strive for gender equality and accelerate change for parity. We can all #choosetochallenge in support of women everywhere and collectively amplify human rights issues. How do we make a positive difference for women …
How SpaceRyde Founder and COO Saharnaz Safari rises to the challenges of space exploration Saharnaz Safari is the Founder and COO of Spaceryde, a company that develops aerospace technology and built the first taxi to bring satellites and cargo to space. Saharnaz has an innate talent for identifying problems and collaborating on innovative solutions, making …
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When it comes to cloud storage, Google Drive leads the industry. If you use any of the G Suite apps – Google Docs, Google Sheets, or Google Slides, your files will automatically be stored on your Google Drive. But you can also use Google Drive for up to 15GB of free cloud storage. If you want …
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The Enneagram, personality type theory, attempts to compile core pieces of an individual and complete the puzzle as a whole. Each type describes key characteristics that are beneficial to understanding oneself and how to work best with others. The Enneagram theory reveals how emotions drive our decision-making and engagement with others. There are nine different …
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One year ago, the world embraced remote work (for better or for worse). We polled 1,000 members of our community, one year apart, about their experience working remotely. The responses were too good not to share, so we created this bite-sized infographic to recap everything. Over the past year, we have faced unique challenges, learned …
As a freelancer, you have a busy schedule, and staying organized is often the most challenging task. Whether you’re running your own business, working with multiple clients, or maintaining a side-hustle in addition to a full-time job — freelancers are constantly caught between demanding priorities. When your projects are switching daily, staying productive and breaking …
How Jeanette Dorazio, CEO of Leadpages, elevates her team by illuminating their strengths and building cohesion Jeanette is a strategic, analytical, and evolving leader who has built her strengths on the back of her weaknesses, growing her expertise with every step of her career. On a mission to make her way, Jeanette took a Political …
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Staying in touch with friends, coworkers, and clients takes multiple apps. You have social media messages, social media notifications, email, and chat. That doesn’t even include the videoconferencing and text messaging you do throughout the day. An email aggregator can pull everything together in one place, saving you time and ensuring you never miss a …
Burnout. You’ve probably heard this term a million times, but what does it mean? And when was the last time you didn’t feel burnt out? These days our personal lives are so intertwined with work that we forget to balance the two — burnout surges when we feel overworked and unable to continue in our …
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Does opening your inbox on a weekday morning make your anxiety soar before you’ve even sipped coffee? Every day, your inbox ends up cluttered with work emails, promotional offers, news notifications, personal emails, brand newsletters, and so much more. It’s no wonder that the average professional spends 28% of the workday reading and answering email. …
The average employee spends more than 5 hours on email per day. It’s safe to say our inboxes tend to steal our productivity. Email isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, so we might as well try to squash inefficiencies so we don’t waste too much of our professional time. Thankfully, both Gmail and Outlook have a …
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We’re all looking for an escape from the boredom of day-to-day routines, and what better distraction than a new hobby (that you won’t give up within a week.) That’s the true challenge of picking up a hobby: sticking with it. But, hobbies aren’t just a good way to fill your free time, they also decrease …
Sydney Parker shares how a strong vision for the future guides her through entrepreneurial challenges and drives her mission Sydney Parker is the Co-Founder of Aurora Tights, an apparel brand dedicated to creating inclusive products for every unique skin color — a much-needed mission for an industry lacking representation. Sydney Parker pursued a degree at …
Multitasking or context switching is an effort to get everything done at once and save time so you can reach deadlines with ease, but it has the opposite effect. Context switching impedes your cognitive functioning, derails your focus, and expends your energy. In the digital age of constant communication, email and app overload, and devices …
“Effective, productive effort, especially in industry, measured by the rate of output per unit of input.” This is the definition of productivity. But how we judge productivity in our own experience is much more complex, qualitative, and subject to various factors. We know what productivity is supposed to look like because we live in the …
If you use Telegram Messenger, you’re one of the hundreds of millions of users around the world trying to make the most of the service. Telegram is a useful communications app that keeps your messages safe and secure while also letting you get all your messaging accounts in one place, across all your devices. But …
Pride Month is a time to amplify the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community, celebrate their fight for equality, and draw attention to the injustices that members still face today. Unfortunately, pride celebrations look a little different this year, with many of these events taking place virtually and the halt of parades. But despite this shift, …
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Dennis Mortensen, CEO and Co-founder of x.ai, shares how he created a vision through problem mapping and rolling the entrepreneurial dice Dennis loves the spontaneity and unpredictability of entrepreneurship and is always up for the next adventure. With four successful startups under his belt, Dennis has mastered ideation, problem-solving, and experimentation. So what’s the secret? …
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At this point, many of us still are unsure of whether we will be working in or out of the office, but one thing is quite certain: Zoom meetings aren’t going anywhere. Zoom fatigue, a term you never thought you would hear so frequently, is now a regular part of work. Even before it was …
Marketers have an uphill struggle to promote their brands and products, especially in competitive marketplaces. To market successfully you need to take advantage of the best tools and pursue every opportunity. We’ve put together a list of ten free marketing tools that will boost your performance. Using specialized marketing tools cuts down manual work and …
Imagine Monday through Friday but without the dreadful Monday; sounds perfect, right? Work as we know it has always consisted of a nine to five, forty-hour workweek, but everything is changing after shifting to remote work. The pandemic has proved that we can work from anywhere, at any time, and thrive asynchronously. The forty-hour workweek …
Whether you’re a full-time student or ten years into your career, we are moving away from traditional learning. Online courses are becoming more popular because remote work is thriving, and hybrid education models have seen great success. As automation, AI and digitization move our world further into the online sphere, we need to find the …
Bobbie Racette shares how she scales her business by prioritizing people and leading with authenticity. Bobbie Racette is the Founder and CEO of Virtual Gurus, a freelancing platform that gives opportunities to underrepresented groups and uplifts their local communities. They are designing cutting-edge machine learning technology, but Virtual Gurus is much more than a tech …
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Youth is supposed to be stress-free and fun. But when you’re piled down with homework and papers, it can be tough to kick back and relax. There’s plenty of information about how adults can power up their productivity, but students have deadlines and daily tasks, too. You need to be able to organize your week …
We have all begun a new school year or quarter at work and told ourselves, “this time I am going to be on top of my work. This time I am not going to procrastinate”. Fast forward one month and you are rapidly cramming the night before the due date. We all procrastinate but most …
You wake up in a cold sweat after that dream where you arrive at an exam and realize you’ve never been to class. Know why we all get that nightmare? Because we’ve all procrastinated at some point – and we spend the rest of our lives reliving the stress. If you want to stop being …
For college students, a laptop is an essential tool. You may carry it around with you from class to class for note taking, or maybe you use it only for studying and writing papers. You might also rely on it to binge-watch shows on Netflix or keep up with friends at home. But as the …
For many of us, an electronic calendar is an essential tool. It helps us track our appointments, schedule meetings, and remember our favorite aunt’s birthday. But keeping up with all those things gets a little more complicated when you’re maintaining multiple calendars. Unfortunately, this is usually unavoidable as employers typically will issue you a device …