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As Ridiculously Efficient readers know, each quarter I choose one area of my work or personal life to reinvent. For Q2 2018, my Destroy to Create experiment will test whether pre-prepared meal delivery services can streamline the time and effort Mike and I put into grocery shopping and meal preparation....
You may have noticed that you can no longer find the Ridiculously Efficient page on Facebook. As a team, we have decided to unpublish our page for the foreseeable future. On a personal level, I’ve been toying with this idea for awhile -- leaving Facebook and putting my efforts...
I regularly conduct what I like to call “Destroy to Create” experiments, where I take a routine, habit or workflow and switch it up to see if I can make it better, faster, easier and/or cheaper. In Q4 2017, I wanted to see if I could replace a laptop...
I recently read a post by Blake Snow on Entrepreneur that outlines a few of the many reasons why entrepreneurs should prioritize travel, and it reminded me of the lessons my own travel adventures have taught me. As Snow puts it, one of the most important lessons an entrepreneur can...
Many people will tell you that success comes with the perfect combination of talent, luck and hard work. But recent research from the University of Catania in Italy found that luck might have a lot more to do with it than you might think. Luck vs. Hard Work I grew...
In a professional setting, experts often caution women against using the phrase “I think,” as this language weakens the impact of your statement. April Wensel, the founder of software development company Compassionate Coding, has a different perspective on so-called “weak” language. I can't tell you how many times...
