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How To Get Your Boss or Client To Support Your Idea

What’s usually missing from common advice for ‘getting to yes’.

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tags: Work, Stakeholders, Advice, Management, Career, Pitching, Research, Consultancy, User Experience, User Research, Getting to Yes, Bias to Action, self-improvement, Mind Hack, Self-improvement, Personal development, Personal growth
categories: Humanity, Design
Monday 04.11.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Identify Your Values + Template

Find out what makes you or your team tick by whittling down this template of 210 values

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tags: life, self-improvement, Process, Personal, Work, workshop, Happiness, Career, Reflection
categories: Humanity
Monday 02.07.22
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

These Goals Are Bad For You

Setting and tracking measurable goals gives us a feeling of progress. Often, we deceive ourselves.

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tags: Mind Hack, productivity, self-improvement, skills, Goals, Reflection, Advice, Psychology, Observation
categories: Humanity
Wednesday 02.02.22
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What Do You Need To Fail at Next?

What failure teaches us about ourselves and about the dreams we should actually chase

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tags: self-improvement, skills, Mind Hack, Mission, Passion, Dreams, Life
categories: Humanity
Monday 01.17.22
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Staying Creative in Difficult Times

Four steps that help me keep going

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tags: creative confidence, productivity, self-improvement, Mind Hack, Covid
categories: Creativity
Tuesday 05.26.20
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Stop Wishing Time Away – And Deal With It

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To live happier and more successful lives requires acceptance and flexibility. At work, and at home.

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tags: Covid, life, mind hack, Happiness, productivity, self-improvement
categories: Humanity
Monday 05.11.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

Finding Your Creative Style

Taking inspiration from your own past work

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tags: creative confidence, Creativity, Art, style, self-improvement, mind hack
categories: Creativity
Tuesday 04.28.20
Posted by Thomas Essl
 

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