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The Stuff that MattRs

Monday Motivation. Let this week be the one where you take control of your meetings and make them more memorable. Five more actionable strategies for running better meetings.  Bonus Stuff. An endless stream of icebreakers to help kick off your meetings in style.

Management. Schedule Syncing is an excellent way to get your team working well together, and avoids the risk of micromanagement. Creating meeting free (or light meeting) days is another way to reduce the drag that management can place on team members. 

Emotions. Improving your emotional self-control can make you a better leader. Discover practical ways to get things under control and develop your leadership skills. 

AI. What does AI know about you and your working style? Here are five prompts that you can put into your favourite AI tool to find out. Found via Further Faster Fridays - one of my current favourite newsletters.

Winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, we’re settling into the darker, colder months. Could that signal a change in your productivity?  Maybe you are wintering. 

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Random Journal Prompt: What affirmations can I use to build confidence when dealing with the unknown? From my prompts for Ambiguity.

Bonus Stuff. Try my 30 day Journalling Challenge.
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50. Fifty things I learned in 2024. Every week I learn something new whilst writing this newsletter - here are 50 of the best from this year.

Memory. Are you always forgetting things? Here’s a great way to fix that. Bonus Stuff. Psyche magazine also has a great guide to improving your memory.

Life. 36 ways to live differently. Some excellent advice in here, #18, #22 and #30 resonate especially with me. 

Travel. Some top 25 bucket lists for 2025, first from the National Geographic and then from CNN Traveller. 

Finally. How many digits of Pi can you remember - I got to eight, can you do better?  Bonus Stuff. The colour clock.

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πŸ”ˆ My week in Music...

My album of the week is from Jono McCleery, plus some other music updates...

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