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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 ...

How should Leaders are spend their Day?

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A Day With Leader. The leader 's responsibilities are not too different from any other developer on the team. In fact, if you’ve been working as a software developer for a few years, chances are you’ve filled the role of tech lead/ team leader at some point. Perhaps not officially, but most of us have, at anytime, called the shots on important pieces of work or been the go-to person on a particular project. Most ‘true’ leaders are “de facto” tech leads- leaders in all senses of the word, but without the fancy title. In teams that contain few people who satisfied different meanings of the tech lead/team lead role, with one who excelling at organization and big vision, another at right execution and day-to-day engineering, and another at better architecture, teaching, or getting stuff deployed smoothly. What does day look like? With wearing a leader’s crown, This is good for the team, but it adds challenges to scheduling time due to much of day is interrupt-driven wit...