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10 Less Stressful Ways to Get Your Daily Work Done

A person working with a computer and writing with a pen in a planner book.

“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle

It is early morning. You’ve had your breakfast and done your morning routine.

So you head out into your day. And in a short while you’ll sit down in school or at your job and get started with your daily work.

But how can you get that work done in a way that is less stressful, less energy consuming and simply a bit smarter?

Today I’d like to share 10 tips that have helped me with that.

I hope you will find something here that will help you too to simplify and relaxify your own daily work.

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A smiling woman out in the sunshine.

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin

One of the most common questions people ask me via email is how to become more of an optimist.

So this week I’d simply like to share three habits that can help you to get started with that.

I use these myself just about every day to stay optimistic in pretty much any situation.

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A small winter bird sitting on a branch.

We are now in January.

A month that can feel too dark, cold and on some days almost endless. It’s no wonder it’s sometimes called the Monday of months.

So to help you to make this a good one and give you some laughs and new energy on tough days I’d like to share 85 of the most hilarious, positive and funny January quotes.

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20 Small Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

A poster about how life begins at the end of the comfort zone and two cactuses.

“Get out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
Brian Tracy

I’m a big fan of doing the unusual thing. Sometimes in big ways. Often in small and daily ways to mix things up.

Why?

Because this habit is a simple and relatively easy way to:

Get out of your comfort zone.

And if you change your perspective on yourself from someone who sticks to the old and comfortable all the time to someone who likes to mix things up then it will feel more natural and easier to break out of your comfort zone when comes to bigger things too.

Because this habit makes the inner resistance and the fear that may hold you back smaller.

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A small road with a beautiful sunrise over a snow covered and open landscape.

January is here with its promise of new beginnings.

It’s a time of dreaming big and then taking the first step towards making those dreams real. A time of the future looking more hopeful again if last year wasn’t so good.

But it’s also a time of freezing cold days and long and dark evenings. And the motivational burst that many of us get at the start of the month can soon start to weaken.

So to help you to stay positive and keep moving all month long I’d like to share 101 of the most motivational, funny and positive short January quotes.

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