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I got this post from Celes­tine Chua’s beau­ti­ful blog. The orig­i­nal post is here. This is really good, help­ful, use­ful stuff.

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My dream is to even­tu­ally work at home. Although my com­pany allows me that lux­ury once in a while, we’d still have to come to work for align­ment meet­ings and also for dis­ci­pline. But I’d even­tu­ally want to work from my home; I would want to set up one of my rooms in my future home into a place where I can study, do my work, make calls, and have con­fer­ence calls.

The prob­lem with hav­ing peo­ple come over to visit is that you have to clean. The prob­lem is com­pounded by the fact that you haven’t cleaned for ages. For LIFESPY, heere’s what you do with only an hour to spare:
Make sure all your clothes are out of view. Your Mom/Significant Other won’t spot things shoved in a cup­board, but s/he will notice a pile of laun­dry wait­ing to be done or old socks lying about.
Dust down sur­faces after you’ve put any­thing away that needs to be out of sight. If you vacuum …

Work can be very stress­ful, but you can also make it as stress­less as pos­si­ble. I real­ized that there is a tech­nique to it actu­ally. Peo­ple can some­times be so lazy in learn­ing new effi­ciency and effec­tiv­ity tech­niques that they just decide to do the sta­tus quo (what they are used to doing). Peo­ple love to work harder and not smarter. Which is kinda stu­pid really. But I used to be one of those peo­ple. I thought keep­ing myself busy must mean that I am pro­duc­tive. But busy-ness does not equal productivity.

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Celes­tine Chua shares this handy tip on how to gain men­tal clar­ity. I hate it when I have a lot of things on my mind and I don’t know where to begin doing the things I need to do. I have to pause and get some per­spec­tive or try to feel less stressed. I have my own tech­niques, and I will share these in the com­ing weeks (i.e. pomodoro, med­i­ta­tion, unclut­ter­ing, etc.), but these are good, use­ful tips too.