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Remind Others to Remind You to Smile

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What if you could remind others to remind you to smile more often? That's how we're going to help you smile more today. Order the shirt below from Teespring.

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Upgrade to a better spell check

According to a 2013 study on LinkedIn:

"Professionals with fewer grammar errors in their profiles achieved higher positions. Those who failed to progress to a director-level position within the first 10 years of their careers made 2.5 times as many grammar mistakes as their director-level colleagues. Fewer grammar errors correlate with more promotions. Professionals with one to four promotions over their 10-year careers made 45% more grammar errors than those with six to nine promotions in the same time frame. Fewer grammar errors associate with frequent job changes. Those who remained at the same company for more than 10 years made 20% more grammar mistakes than those who held six jobs in the same period. This could be explained in a couple of ways: People with better grammar may be more ambitious in their search for promising career opportunities, or job-hoppers may simply recheck their résumés between jobs."  -- Brad Hoover, CEO of Grammarly

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While you could just memorize grammar and spelling tips (GrammarGirl is awesome for that), the more 'habiticle' way to improve your writing would be to install Ginger. Ginger is a browser extension for Safari and Chrome that not only checks your spelling and grammar, but can even rephrase sentences, translate text, and read your text aloud.

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An Easier Way to Digest the Sunday New York Times

"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."  — Doug Larson (Gold-medal Olympian)

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If you don’t have hours to go through the long pieces the New York Times known for, having a digest sent to your inbox is the next best thing. Matt Thomas delivers. Check out the sample below and subscribe to Matt’s newsletter here.

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Turn nervousness into excitement

Simon Sinek (The ‘Start With Why' guy) studied Olympic athletes and discovered that your fear of public speaking, failure, commitment — whatever it is — may be solved by changing how you interpret its symptoms.

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Change your interpretation of nervousness at work using the IFTTT recipe below. 15 minutes before every meeting (may be extreme, but it is your brain that you’re training), you’ll get a text that reminds you that it’s excitement you’re feeling.

Bonus: Also helps you look at boring meetings as an opportunity.

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Remember to give more compliments

There are numerous benefits to giving compliments every day, but Leo Buscaglia, aka Dr. Hug, said it best:

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."  — Leo Buscaglia, Love (1972)

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Get motivated to do that passion project

"In the instance of getting an idea, I go act it out on paper — I don’t put it away. I don’t delay, I don’t put off to tomorrow doing what I must do, right now... to find out what my secret self needs, wants, desires with all its heart. And then it speaks, and I have enough brains to get out of the way and listen... The only thing that you’ll ever own in your life is your work."  -- Ray Bradbury (1968), author of the classic, Fahrenheit 451

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Hold yourself accountable to your big goals

Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ac-podcast-the-dailies/id93424211?i=318647237&mt=2

"Do you have a set of practices that keep you steady and on-course? For years I’ve had a small group of daily activities that have helped me pursue my long-term goals, and today I’ll share them with you and tell you how you can incorporate the same ideas into your own life and work."  — Todd Henry

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