Critical Skills You Might Be Overlooking

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This week we'll be diving into critical startup skills, writing engaging headlines and dealing with burnout.

Cheers,
Janel

The Critical Startup Skills You Might Be Overlooking — And How to Bring Them Into Focus
Useful skills to grow as a leader. "Building a regular practice of putting all the pieces together, through targeted self-reflection, can help you hone in on the story you tell about yourself about where you’re at and where you want to go."

• Delegation
• Strategic planning
• Listening in 1:1s
• Giving specific feedback
• Self reflection

Time And Focus And Energy
"Sooner or later, they’re all finite. And the way we allocate our time and emotional energy determines what gets done.... There’s generally a gulf between what we say we did all day and what we actually did. When we give away our day, we give away our future."

12 Formulas To Write Engaging Headlines
The headline is the most important element in most advertisements, as 80% of people don't even make it past headlines. Check this out to help you hook them better.

The Ultimate Burnout Guide: Symptoms, Causes, and Prevention
This guide will help you identify signs of burnout, and help you prevent burnout early enough that you hopefully won’t be affected by it. If you're already burnt out, this guide will help you in the recovery process.

How To Stop Impulse Buying
Understanding triggers and taking actionable steps to avoid impulse purchases. The best tip is the 72-hour rule: "Even if it’s a need or a want unless it’s an emergency, delay the shopping by 72 hours."

Internxt - Send large files (up to 5GB) through a secure link to your friends, peers and colleagues!

Follow Up Then - Free tool to schedule email reminders, so you don't leave piles of unanswered emails in your inbox.

TextSniper - A useful Mac app to quickly capture usually unselectable text. Use it to capture and recognize text from presentations, trainings, screencasts. It's saved me so much time.

Useful Science - Site with well-organized, succinct summaries of new academic research.

The Auction Game - Guess the price of items that have already been auctioned. How much did that crocodile armchair or painting go for? 🤔