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14/02/2024

listen, sometimes context is important !

29/01/2024

"MWW48: A Devotion to the Life I Want" is here, and it's all about keeping intentions for a whole year top of mind in our daily lives ❄️
Spoiler Alert, it features a lot our obsession with daily journaling 📝✨

Habbi and Hailley talk about how they set up their intention for a whole year and then how they keep it present in their daily lives. Routines play a big part, and spoiler alert – it involves their Notion Daily Journals. 00:01:34 2023 Reflection Habbi reflects on her theme

23/01/2024

In MWW47 we talk about how keeping your project names the same across email, project management, and documentation tools is a game changer. This is a fundamental element of the PARA method, you can learn more about it here 💡

This system could be the solution to my every digital problem. The PARA method is “a universal system for organizing digital information.” And...

16/01/2024

“The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.”

from The StrengthsFinder book. more here:

A central theme on MakeWorkWork has been how personality frameworks like the Enneagram give us language to talk about our personality traits, the good and the bad. Any given trait has positive and negative implications. I find the StrengthsFinder puts traits like these much more firmly in a professi...

16/01/2024

On MWW47 we talked about Habbi committing to Inbox Zero in 2023, and the investment project it took to get there. She gets a 100 messages a day, and in this 9-minute read she breaks down how she went from chaos to clariy 💌

I get 100 messages a day. I checked, and my average over three weeks was that I get an average of 485 messages a week across Instagram, Spark, Messages, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Slack. That means during a five-day workweek, Per day, I get ~20 emails to my main accounts (pre-cleared,

09/01/2024

🎙️ Tune in to MakeWorkWork's podcast episodes MWW15 and MWW31 to hear more about Habbi's and Hailley's Enneagram journeys ! 🎧

Learn how this personality framework has influenced their collaboration on this link here.

Using the Enneagram personality framework has provided language to articulate our own personality traits and helped us own better up to both positive and negative characteristics. This elevated our collaboration by an order of magnitude. Here's more about the Enneagram, and how we use it. Years ago,...

05/01/2024

"Keep in mind that you're always saying 'no' to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the more fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it”
– Elizabeth Emens, Life Admin

This book recommendation came to us from listener Brittany, and we discuss it on MWW45 🎧

19/12/2023

☃️ A beautiful sentiment into the holiday season, whatever you celebrate

15/12/2023

If we got any overachievers in the room, here's a beautiful quote from Actor Jason Alexander, given during a Master Class at Boston University to take you into 2023 reflection and setting up goals for 2024 🌷

“As you begin to find your way of working, and you bump into something and go 'I can't make this work!, be gentle with yourself. You don't yell at a bud because it isn't a flower yet. It's gonna be a flower. But it opens when it's time for it to open. If you're working on something that is beyond your ability at the moment, it doesn't mean it will be beyond your ability in a month.

But at the moment it's going to frustrate the hell out of you. Acknowledge it and go "I'm not getting this! I'm not achieving what I want to achieve right now!"

[Then exhale]

Tomorrow.

I'll make another choice tomorrow.

I'Il look [at it] another way."
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12/12/2023

Marissa from Remote Work Prep talked to Hailley about her 7 week sabbatical (more on MWW40). Hailley covers about her vision for this time, the prep, the sabbatical itself, and what coming back to work looked like for her.

Welcome back to another issue of Remotely Interesting ! This week, we have something different. I'm kicking off a new series this year on uncommon but innovative benefits. In case you missed it, we did a series of Work Style interviews last year, profiling people with untraditional

08/12/2023

The Four Tendencies is one personality framework that has resonated with us. This simple yet brilliant framework by Gretchen Rubin has helped us us navigate outer and inner expectations, leading to better self-understanding and goal achievement ⚖️

Sometimes you come across an author who is writing about topics that just really resonate with you. That’s exactly what happened when I came across Gretchen Rubin, who has written 10 books. One of them, The Happiness Project, came into my life at exactly the right moment. Keen to

05/12/2023

📝 Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of a job application process? Hailley talks about this a little in MWW47, and references this piece where she shares insights into the Content Writer Role application journey that happened earlier this year.

https://buffer.com/resources/content-writer-applications/

Here are six reasons we didn't move some Content Writer applications forward and more about our application process.