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When was the last time you paid attention to how you dot your i’s and cross your t’s? Probably never. Well, you may want to grab whatever handwritten notes you have handy and take a look.

As it turns out, how you write can indicate more than 5,000 personality traits. The size and shape of your letters, spacing between words, and even how hard you press your pen down can signify all sorts of characteristics. It can even give clues about your health and energy levels.

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We spend a lot of time, resources, and energy on email. According to Atlassian, in a given week, we receive an average of 304 business emails, check our inboxes 36 times in an hour, and spend 16 minutes re-focusing after exiting our inbox. 

Because we spend so much of our workday in email, it’s worth learning how to do it faster. And one of the easiest ways to get faster at email is by using keyboard shortcuts. 

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Working remotely is both a blessing and a curse.

The blessing? Eliminating the need to pour time, stress, and money into your commute.

The curse? Missing out on office culture, face-to-face-time with your co-workers, and productivity. And while telecommunication is now a mainstay in office culture, it’s not always easy to ensure that you or your team stays productive when working out of the office. 

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At work, some terrible situations are easier to get out of than others.

That important project your boss dumps on you last minute? You probably can’t wiggle your way out of that one. 

But that super confusing Google Doc your company uses to track incoming leads and assign them to sales reps?

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What we eat has a direct impact on our performance at work. Want your mind (and your body) to perform optimally? Then you’ll need to practice good nutrition.

While this concept is neither new nor revolutionary, it’s the ability to actually do it that’s eluding many of us. Why?

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We’ve all been there before. You’re by the water cooler. Or in a quiet hallway. Or at a team outing, perhaps after one too many beverages.

“That guy [coworker’s name] is a real A-hole,” someone whispers to you angrily.

“A genuine, grade-A, 100% certifiable, pure-bred A-hole,” they continue. “Like, if there were a competition, not only would [coworker’s name] win first prize, but they would subsequently name the competition after him and start using a mold of his body as the trophy.”

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Confession: I used to speak like a robot. When I applied for my first job, I sounded something like Geoffrey the butler from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air mixed with IBM’s Watson:

Hello Sir or Madam,

This letter is to inform you of my supreme interest in the position of Marketing Associate currently available at your firm. I would be pleasantly delighted to inquire further into the details on the position. In my experience …  

ZZZzzzzz. What a snoozefest.

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When I go on vacation, I completely turn off work … but I don’t stop marketing.

Of course I don’t actually work while I’m on vacation. It wouldn’t truly be a vacation if I did. I use my out-of-office reply to continue marketing while I’m gone. Below is my most recent one.

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Whiteboards, screwdrivers, wires, and scraps from rubber tires all live as one in the Google Garage. 

What’s the Google Garage, you ask? It’s a “commons where Googlers can come together from across the company and learn, create, and make,” says program manager Mamie Rheingold.

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“Round up the usual suspects,” the gendarme ordered in the famous line from the movie Casablanca. And frequently, that is how executives think when they create teams, committees, or task forces. The boss says or thinks something like, “Let’s appoint anyone who might know something about this issue.” Or, even more likely, “Grab anybody who’s got a stake in this thing.”

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Whoever said “cleanliness is next to godliness” hasn’t spent much time in office kitchens lately.

Regardless of whether you work at a Fortune 500 company, a small startup, or a mid-sized financial services firm, communal office kitchens have a funny way of attracting messes, spills, and close encounters of the liquid kind at every turn.

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Body language: It’s one of the most subtle, yet important things to master at work. If you’re not in tune with what your posture, facial expression, and other nonverbal cues are telling others, you could be setting yourself up for failure.

For example, let’s say that you’re in an important meeting and want to show your boss that you’re a leader on the team.

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If you asked me to name the sites and applications I use every single day, Google Drive would be near the top of the list. At work, I use it to take notes during meetings and create surveys for blog posts. At home, I use it to calculate vacation expenses and track workouts with my gym buddies. It’s one of those web tools that’s so useful and so all-encompassing, I can hardly remember life without it.

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