Marissa Brassfield

Marissa Brassfield

Los Angeles
Trusted advisor, simplifier, and loving catalyst of your biggest and best initiatives. Discovering how to stretch time, maximize ease, and optimize work-life alignment.
Jan 28

Identify Your Talent and Potential with StrengthsFinder

The Gallup organization created the Clifton StrengthsFinder to help people discover their unique combination of strengths. StrengthsFinder is an online
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Jan 21

Using Kids' Natural Curiosity & Creativity to Enhance Learning

Today, virtually every kid has a smart phone. That smart phone is full of apps and gadgets that do the
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Jan 05

Bitwalking Pays You to Get Active

Bitwalking believes everyone should be able to earn an income in some fashion. What if you could earn an income
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Jan 03

Want to Retain Team Members? Talk About Their Career Path

Action Steps If you're a manager, try this line of questioning in your next conversation with your teammate.
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Dec 30

Being Ridiculously Efficient: Earned Laziness

Idleness is something of a bad word in today's work culture (after all, aren't we all
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Dec 22

Are Your Decisions as Rational as You Think?

In recent decades, researchers have uncovered a wide range of mental errors that derail our thinking and sway us from
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Dec 15

In Their Own Words: Tim Ferriss on Being Interchangeable

One of my productivity heroes, Tim Ferriss, recently wrote a post in which he explained his departure from startup advising
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Dec 14

20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decision-Making

There are three parts of the mind: cognitive, conative, and affective. The cognitive part of your mind does the majority
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Nov 25

6 Ways to Avoid the Afternoon Slump

When do you have the most energy during the day? When are you the most productive? Many people face an
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Nov 05

Spending Too Much Time Inside Could Impact Your Health

On average, how much time do you think you spend inside per day? Research has found that most Americans only
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Oct 27

Money, Time, Significance – Finding a Career that Fits You

Don’t know exactly what you want to for your career? The good news is you’re not alone! In
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Oct 23

Demolishing My Childhood Kitchen: A Real-Time Exercise in Jettisoning Emotional Baggage

Have you ever gone through a situation in which you felt mixed emotions when most people would expect you to
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