I get asked about notifications a lot.
So in this post, I’m going to share my thoughts of what notifications you should and should not have enabled on your phone.
How many notifications should you have enabled?
Short answer: as few as possible.
Translation: not all of them!
Notifications are distractions.
Think about how many times your phone dings, bings, swooshes, or vibrates over the course of a day.
Let me ask it another way: what would other people think? If you...
Cathy Wassell is a lead generation strategist specializing in LinkedIn and Facebook Ads who helps coaches and consultants build a pipeline of new clients. She runs a digital agency named Socially Contented, co-founded a membership for new businesses, Go With The Pro, and trains entrepreneurs and new businesses on how to get more clients with her Leads Machine courses. She lives in Stratford upon Avon, UK, about 2 minutes' walk from Shakespeare's house. She has two teens and two crazy...
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On this episode, I’m sharing part of a recent presentation I did at the 2019 Texas Bay Area SHRM Conference (the Society of Human Resource Management).
In this part of the presentation, I talk about:
- How to deal with people
- Setting boundaries
- Dealing with the dreaded, “got a minute?”
- The problem with chairs in your office
- Setting boundaries when you work in a cubicle
- Retraining co-workers
- Offices that have glass walls and doors
- Stress and your productivity
- The importance...
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Janine has one philosophy & one common goal that all her work revolves around - relationships. Relationship marketing is the key to high-value long term business relationships.
On this episode with Janine: where you should be on social media (not everywhere), endless...
Deepak Shukla is the founder of Pearl Lemon, a multi-award-winning SEO agency in London.
He bootstrapped the business from his mum’s house to a £275k company in less than 24 months. He’s since gone on to invest in algorithmic trading, launch 5-figure online courses and continues to grow.
Deepak has been featured in TEDx, SEMrush, BBC, Chelsea FC, Appsumo, Bright Talks & more.
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In this episode, I’m sharing part of a recent presentation I did at the 2019 Texas Bay Area SHRM Conference (the Society of Human Resource Management).
In this part of the presentation, I talk about how to deal with email like a boss.
- How long it takes for you to get your focus back after you’re interrupted
- How to spend LESS time in email
- How to efficiently ask for feedback on something
- How to set up a meeting with someone
- How to deal with the dreaded carbon copy or, ugh, reply...
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On this special episode, I am reading the ebook I released, How to REALLY be More Productive. This was a spur of the moment thing but I feel that there is so much here, I wanted to share it with you.
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