Australia: 20. Sweden: 38. Canada: 15. Norway: 26. Switzerland: 32. Germany: 25. The countries are those ranked as having the world’s highest standards of living. The numbers are minimum number of paid leave days employers are legally obliged to give their employees in those.
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Is your inbox teeming with email from lists you have little or no recollection how you got on them (the LifeEdited newsletter being an obvious exception)? Going through every email and unsubscribing can be tedious. For some lists, we might.
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Follow these instructions: take the time you would have spent reading one of our thoughtful posts to do nothing. No checking your phone, web browsing, doodling or walking. The only exceptions to the activity moratorium are paying attention to your.
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The bulk of my academic career was pre-internet. Back then, research involved roving library stacks, checking out huge piles of books and microfilm. These were laborious, time-intensive tasks: walking through the aisles, up and down stairs, sliding through pages and.
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For some of us, Mondays can be a bear. We look at the week stretched out before us with its opportunities, goals, chores and hassles. While the hyper-efficient among us go straight to work, clearing out our inboxes, checking off.
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One reason Japan is the manufacturing juggernaut and paragon of quality it is today can be attributed to a philosophy called Just in Time. JIT’s main objective is to improve efficiency by eliminating waste at every step of a manufacturing.
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Many of us have probably seen this before, but it’s a lesson worth sharing again and again. The above video shows Steven Covey as he demonstrates how prioritization can allow us to do everything we need to do in our.
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Note: No animals were harmed in the publication of this post A lion is agile enough hunt and eat field mice if it wanted to, but the energy to catch them is greater than the caloric content of the mouse..
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We came across an interesting story by Lane Wood, a San Franciscan who, after taking an impromptu dip in a lake, accidentally drowned his iPhone 5. Rather than immediately replace the uninsured phone, Lane decided to try a month phone.
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A recent study explains why you might be more physically exhausted coming home from an eight hour, sedentary day at work than an active day spent doing mindless tasks. The difference is your thoughts. The study, conducted by Samuele Marcora of the.
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