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Want to Boost Your Creativity? Try These 12 Easy Hacks This Year

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Research published in The Academy of Management Journal found that, depending on the extent to which one identifies with their work, problem-oriented daydreams were beneficial to creative thinking. After working on your project for a short time, step away and do an undemanding task, such as doodling or loading the dishwasher.

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Boost Your Well-Being By Taking Creativity Breaks Throughout Your Day

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Try setting aside just 10-15 minutes a day for an activity you enjoy, whether it’s doodling, knitting or even coloring in a mindfulness coloring book. By making creativity a part of your daily routine, you’ll find it easier to manage stress and improve your overall mental health, leading to a more balanced, fulfilling life.

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4 Important Truths of Lasting Professional Relationships

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Have you ever met with, or attended a talk by, someone considered an expert in a field expecting to be dazzled but found yourself doodling on a notepad instead? The manager later explained that when he asked the two of us to follow him to his office, he noticed my friend march through the store with energy, purpose and confidence.

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Technology of the week: Paper by 53

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In a nutshell Paper by 53 is a very simple app that lets you take notes, write checklists, doodle, draw, write over photos and screenshots. If you are quite visual the app is great because of how easy it is to use for doodles and if you prefer a little more structure the ability to quickly turn any note into a checklist is brilliant.

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Tech of the week: Doodle.com

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What is Doodle? Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events by using a voting process. All you have to do is send your colleagues a link to Doodle and ask them to select the dates and times they are available. What does it do? You can then choose the date most popular with your attendees.

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We need better meetings!

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Doodle provides a suite of calendar tools that save a lot of time for anyone who has to set up a lot of meetings. Doodle State […]. Recent research shows that two-thirds of all meetings are pointless! Don’t let your boss and her/his teams waste time like this. Preparation is the golden path to productive meetings.

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A Day in the Life of a Freelancer

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Editors and project managers don’t “owe” freelancers anything, like they do their own staff, so they might stop communicating midproject and change directions completely and without explanation. It helped them to start delegating smaller items before all of the invoicing or email management. The kids start trickling in.

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