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 03

The Email Game Makes Tackling Your Inbox Fun

The Email Game is a free tool for Gmail and Google Apps users that adds competitive elements to tackling your
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Jan 03

5 Digital Notifications You Don't Need

The quest to becoming ridiculously efficient involves navigating tough obstacles like online alerts; to boost your productivity, disable the following
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Jan 03

Visualize Your Day With the Angry Productive Birds App

I've written about the old adage that you cannot improve what you cannot measure, and the Angry Productive
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Jan 02

All About Evernote [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Evernote productivity app has exploded in popularity, and this InfoGlyphs infographic shares some key features, fun facts and other
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Jan 02

Shorten Your Workday With Non-Resolutions

An article I read today shared a surprising strategy for making New Year's resolutions, one that also translates
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Jan 02

5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency

You can't force your team to become more productive, but some management strategies can enable efficiency by boosting
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Jan 02

Email Efficiency is Relationship-Sensitive [STUDY]

A new study out of Northwestern University indicates that our email efficiency is relationship-sensitive -- specifically, we reply sooner to
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Jan 01

5 New Year's Resolutions for Leaders

Today's must-reads help managers, entrepreneurs and leaders make more effective New Year's resolutions. What work-related resolutions
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Jan 01

Work Motivation: Managers vs. Employees [INFOGRAPHIC]

This Mercer infographic reveals that managers and employees have distinct perspectives on how their organization fosters and incentivizes productivity and
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Dec 31

Top 10 Posts in 2011

The following are the most-trafficked productivity and efficiency articles at Ridiculously Efficient since our Nov. 1 launch. I hope these
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Dec 30

The Secret Ingredient for Productivity

There's one secret ingredient for productivity that most people overlook, especially while making New Year's resolutions.
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Dec 29

The Unstuck App is a Problem-Solving Productivity Tool

The free Unstuck app for iPad helps you solve prickly issues by acting like a virtual coach. Users answer questions
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