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Stories and ideas to create a career and life that works
Rewrite Founder and Executive Career Coach Monique Shaw shares personal and professional insights, practical tools and reflections on rewriting your story to change how you work, lead and live.
Want More Time? Stop Doing Work That Isn’t Your Work
One of our scarcest and most sought after currencies is time. We want to maximise productivity, minimise effort, workout in minutes and meditate-on-the-go. But trying to cram more into 24 hours doesn’t create more time, it just creates more stuff to do. The single most effective way to have more time is very simple. Work less. And by that, I mean stop doing work at work that isn’t your work.
When Is Productivity A Dirty Word?
High productivity receives high praise because we worship at the altar of more – more busy-ness, more stuff, more money, more achievement. But this pursuit of more can be problematic, especially when it comes to productivity. Productivity for productivity’s sake is a fast track to stress, burnout, anxiety, resentment, dissatisfaction, unfulfillment and unproductivity.