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Manage your energy, not your time

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How to Manage Your Energy to Do Your Best Work and Feel Fulfilled When you’re running on empty, you feel distracted, disconnected, and even frustrated. We’ve all been there, slogging through the days to try to get it all done, and still falling short. You don’t have energy left for the things that matter most.  The problem is, it’s easy to get swept up in what pulls on our attention rather than consciously choosing where we want to invest our energy. You may constantly be busy, but you may not feel fulfilled. “There's a really big difference between achievement and fulfillment,” says Molly Fletcher in the course Achieving More through Smart Energy Management.  By proactively managing your energy, you can get closer to fulfillment—to show up as your best self at work and have energy for the people and the activities that matter most in your life. Try these three simple—yet powerful—steps to masterfully manage your energy so you can better connect with and serve the people ...

Four goals of agile documentation

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Documentation is a vast area. It can be done in lots of different mediums, describing  many different aspects of software for various stakeholders. Here, we focus on how  developers can use high-level documentation to communicate inside a team, and with  direct stakeholders. All of these are things that can complement the documentation  already provided by code, scripts, and tests. 1. Create a common understanding I often catch myself working under the assumption that everybody on the team has the  same understanding of what we are doing. “Surely the view of the architecture in my  head is clear to everybody?” That would imply we don’t have to write these  seemingly obvious things down or have a sketch on the wall. This is a fallacy that, especially more tenured developers on the team are prone to. Architecture show-and-tell To verify how accurate our assumptions about common understanding really are, you  need to get each team member ...

Phrases You Should Absolutely Never Say at Work

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16 Phrases You Should Absolutely Never Say at Work 1. "It's not fair." She/He got a raise, you didn’t. He was recognized, you weren’t. “Some people have food to eat while others starve.” “Injustices happen on the job and in the world every day. Whether it’s a troubling issue at work or a serious problem for the planet, the point in avoiding this phrase is to be protective approximately issue versus complaining, or more regrettable, inactively crying.”  Instead, report the actualities, construct a case and show an brilliantly contention to the individual or gather who can assist you.   2. “That’s not my job.” When it’s used: Someone asks you for help for a task that is outside of your core job  description and you don’t really want to do. Rather than spend some time helping or just  saying no, you say this instead. And immediately regret it. What people hear when you say it: “I’m out for myself only.” A better option :  I...