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Reflect for Growth: How to Develop a Reflective Practice
Do you ever take a step back and truly reflect on who you are and what drives your decisions? Developing a strong reflective practice can unlock your potential and change your life. Productivity advice often focuses on systems, techniques, and tools designed for a non-descript, overly rational human being who always follows optimal behavior. These…
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How to Improve Your Relationship With Time
Time is one of our most precious and limited resources. We attempt to hack, increase, manipulate, and optimize it. Beyond using various tactics, it is worthwhile to explore our deeper relationship with time and how it affects our experience of it. We all want to learn to optimize our time and get more done faster. But…
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The Power of Pre-Deciding for a Better Life
It is easy to waste so much time when we struggle to make decisions. We delay necessary actions and create an opportunity for outside forces to influence us. We get lost in the highlight reels and the social trends. We are obsessed with lifehacks and desperately search for absolute best practices. We often look to…
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Planning Just Enough (How to Stop Overplanning)
In my experience, people easily fall into one of two camps. Those who dislike planning and jump into action as soon as possible, and those who love planning… a little too much. I love planning, making lists, and organizing things. If you are anything like me, you enjoy thinking through every minute detail before starting…
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How to Overcome Your Productivity Obsession
Our collective obsession with productivity is taking away more than it is giving. If you struggle with productivity despite staying current on all the latest and greatest tools and methods, this post is for you. Just like perfectionism used to, excessive productivity can disguise itself as a good thing. You may be thinking, “what’s wrong with…
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3 Practical Ways to Embrace Abundance
The abundance mindset has become somewhat of an esoteric concept, synonymous with repeating positive affirmations, visualizing, and magically manifesting things using the law of attraction. (Does anyone remember the “Serenity Now” episode on Seinfeld?) This mystical connotation of the abundance mindset has created an unpleasant taste for those who are more pragmatic and resist what…
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Why Cash Flow Is More Important Than Profit
This post was first published on January 1, 2015, as a white paper when I worked at the Nebraska Business Development Center. It was updated to fit this website and blog format. Many equate the success of a company to its reported profits. While profits are good, they do not adequately represent the financial standing…
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How To Reinvent Yourself (Overcome Upper Limits)
As a first-generation immigrant, my focus for the last two decades has been to assimilate and build my life in the United States. With this end goal in mind, I devoted myself to achieving various personal and professional milestones. I was always clear on my next steps. That was until I hit my upper limit.…
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How to Set Better Goals (A Gentle Approach)
If you have ever attempted to bully yourself into doing something you thought you “should,” how did that work out for you? Let’s explore a gentler and more effective way to set goals. Common Goal-Setting Approach An extensive body of literature focuses on goal-setting and change management in our personal lives and in business. Some…
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Hey there! My name is Aretha Boex. I am Digital Content Creator, Project Manager, and Adjunt Instructor.
Here and on YouTube, I create content about self-management, personal growth, and living with intention. I like to reframe my obsession with productivity through the lens of self-compassion.
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