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Category: Personal
My thoughts, ramblings and learnings on minimalism, personal productivity, digital lives, science, video games, wellness & self-care.
Two Powerful Tips to Quickly Make Your Meetings Productive!
By adding just two items to your meeting agenda, a (1) Desired Outcome and (2) the Topics & Activities, you can supercharge your next meeting into a productive powerhouse! Find more details with examples and three bonus tips in this article.
Vastly improve chat responses with this one simple tip
Please don’t type “Hi” or “Hello” in chat and press Enter When we use modern chat tools, such as Microsoft Teams, we should do so in a way that saves us time and allows for an efficient, real-time exchange of information. Do not expect an answer if you type “Hi” or “Hello” and press Enter.…
How I reduce morning anxiety with a morning routine
The stress hormone cortisol can be at its highest when we first wake up, so it’s not unusual to feel anxious in the morning. If you are anxious in the morning, with a racing heart or upset stomach, you’re not the only one. Many people feel anxious when they wake up because their cortisol levels…
5 Tips to Making Your 2022 Goals Your Best Ever
Every few months, I write in my journal about the highlights of the previous few months and my plans for the coming months. Maybe you’re in the same boat. Meetings with your boss, where you plan your professional progress for the upcoming quarter, may be one source of your goals. Maybe you’d instead make a…
Beyond email: Microsoft time management exec and Satya Nadella mentee on the future of Outlook
Outlook is one of Microsoft’s oldest products — at nearly 22 years old, it is the same age as some of the fresh-faced interns that arrive on the company’s Redmond campus every summer. But it just keeps humming along, outlasting many programs and initiatives that have been conceived, released and discarded during its lifetime. Microsoft…
Don’t Hold Back Your Emojis – It’s a text world
We lose so much emotion in our text messages and emails—the tone of voice, gestures, facial expressions, body language, that quiver of excitement. This poem called Indirect by BABYRUTHBEER caught my attention today: To sigh after a long story,or to gasp when you hear something silly;Two of the wonders you can’t doif online chat is…
Cheeky Microsoft Windows & Surface vs iPad Adverts
It’s great to see Microsoft being bold with their Windows and Surface adverts/commercials! Check out the cheeky comparison below, this is long overdue!
One Experience. On every device. For everything in your life.
There are considerable benefits in investing in one platform for all your devices – the same mobile phone platform, the same platform for your tablet, your work notebook, and your gaming console. I have chosen Microsoft as my platform, and I will tell you why. In a previous life, I had an Android smartphone, an…
Facebook Unfriend
I have been looking at the word “Friend” for so long that the spelling is starting to look strange. F.R.I.E.N.D. Weird. I have been doing a clean-up of friends on Facebook – unfriending people that I actually don’t know… and even a few that I don’t want to know anymore too! It’s not to be…