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How To Identify the Right Opportunities to Grow Yourself
Helping Others
Find new opportunities in your workplace by:
- Coming up with new ideas and sharing them with management.
- Introducing and connecting people.
- Finding inefficiencies in systems and ways to rectify them.
- Working and giving away your ideas selflessly.
- Volunteering to do things that others don't or can't do.
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When people find out that I work from home and set my own schedule, the conversation is often met with an upbeat, "Wow you're so lucky" quickly followed by, "You must have so much self-control. I would end up watching Netflix all day."
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Key Ideas
Getting an early start
Plan your morning the night before and stick to your plan.
If a new task comes in that isn’t 100% urgent, designate a time that you’ll work on it uninterrupted or try to delegate the probl...
Deciding where to work
- If you know you’re more likely to work from home, invest in comfortable furniture; you feel good it will inspire you to get work done.
- If you want to join a local co-working space but are intimidated by the price point, ask about smaller memberships to start.
Prioritizing tasks
Don’t let your skepticism about productivity hacks get in the way of finding a technique that suits you and helps you get things done.
If you’re still having a hard time identifying priorities, try working backward by identifying work that’s definitely not a priority. Eliminate those items and assess what’s left.