Remote Tea 🍵 Finding productivity, routine, and inspiration in the new way of work 🫶🏼

Issue 203

Welcome back, and hello to all new subscribers! Today's suggestion (just below) is a good one and worth considering. It can significantly impact your ability to find balance and rhythm in your workday.

🍀 Establish a daily routine

A routine helps in setting clear boundaries between work and personal life, allowing for dedicated time blocks for tasks, breaks, and personal activities. It fosters discipline, enabling better time management and focus on priorities, ultimately boosting efficiency. Additionally, a routine aids in reducing decision fatigue, as certain activities become automatic, freeing mental space for creativity and problem-solving. Gamechanger!

Making it a success:

1. Set Clear Goals: Define specific work and personal objectives to structure your routine around, ensuring tasks align with these goals.

2. Establish a Schedule: Create a daily timetable allocating time for work tasks, breaks, and personal activities, maintaining consistency in your routine.

3. Prioritize and Organize: Identify and prioritize crucial tasks, organizing them within your schedule based on importance and urgency to ensure productivity.

4. Adapt and Flexibility: Remain adaptable to accommodate unexpected changes, allowing for flexibility within your routine while staying committed to the core structure.

Keep up the great work, and don’t be afraid to try new things!

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From HubSpot.

How to be more productive

Operate at work like a bona-fide titan of industry with this free productivity kit by ClickUp and HubSpot. It has tips and templates to help you purge procrastination and punch the metaphorical workplace clock with pride. Stop slackin’. Get crackin’.

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🧠 Stay Informed

We consume a lot of information so you don’t have to. Here are a handful of noteworthy reads.

How to overcome proximity bias in today’s remote workforce

Intentional mentorship of remote teams, especially women and people of color, as they begin entering the workforce can offer a roadmap for today’s WFH reality. Full Story: Fast Company

Frontline Workers Want Flexibility Too

Frontline workers have not experienced the benefits of remote work or hybrid flexibility -- for example, getting to skip the daily commute. Could this explain the engagement gap between hybrid frontline workers? Our research suggests it does not, at least not directly. Full Story: Gallup

The Twentysomethings Shaping The Future Of Work, Talking Remote With Zapier’s CEO And More

We write a lot in this newsletter about how work gets done, and the people already leading it at major organizations. But our recently published Under 30 list—Forbes’ biggest, most ambitious list of the year—spotlights founders, leaders, researchers, and pioneers under the age of 30 who are reshaping the arts, food, entertainment—and business, of course. Full Story: Forbes

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💡 Finding Inspiration

Remember to seek out new perspectives regularly, whether through books, podcasts, articles, or networking with fellow remote workers.

Our recommendation — A fantastic resource for remote work and productivity is the book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Cal Newport. This book offers insightful strategies for cultivating deep, focused work in an age of constant distraction. Newport delves into techniques to enhance productivity, minimize interruptions, and maximize concentration—a valuable resource for anyone seeking to excel in remote work environments.

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More ways to connect and thrive

• Remote Work Slack makes it easy to network and chat at your pace with 3,000+ fellow remote workers, freelancers, and creatives.

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