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It's almost Tax day, ready? The entire process is a good litmus test for your productivity system. 😉

We're living in some strange economic times. No industry or individual is immune to the changes in the climate, which is why we must stay agile and adaptable. This week, I shared 7 steps to take to recession-proof your career.

Join me for a free workshop on Thursday, April 20th at 2:30 p.m. ET to dive deeper into the practical steps for how to keep your job in a recession.

How to recession-proof your career

“We have no idea what the world will look like when we wake up tomorrow.”

It was late Sunday night, September 14, 2008.

Lehman Brothers had just filed for bankruptcy. And when the markets re-opened on Monday, it was going to be a bloodbath.

And indeed it was.

401ks were decimated.

9 million people were laid off.

Banks and automakers became wards of the state.

I was 31 (right in my peak earning years) and terrified of losing my fancy Wall Street job.

But that didn’t happen. Au contraire, mon frere.

Over the next 7 years I got promoted twice. (“Battlefield promotes,” they called them.)

And at 35, I semi-retired.

Here are 7 approaches you can use to keep your job (and thrive) during a recession.

Here are this week's top reads:

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The paradox of goals

8 minutes | Ness Labs
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Goals are a tricky beast. We need them to stay focused and motivated. But once we achieve them, we’re immediately looking for that next win. An anti-dote? Replace goals with growth loops. Anne-Laure Le Cunff is one of my favorite writers and I highly recommend you subscribe to her newsletter Maker Mind.

→ Read the post​

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The bad goal of $5m by 30

2 minutes | Nat Eliason
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What’s your magic retirement number? You know, the bank account balance when you finally feel like you have had enough? We all have guesstimates of this number, yet the concept is also fundamentally flawed.

→ Read the post​

// three

How to escape the hedonic treadmill

7 minutes | HackerNoon
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A shocking realization about happiness: the baseline of lottery winners and accident victims ultimately reverts to prior levels. So, if nothing you do has a lasting impact, are we all just doomed to live with the baseline we were born with?

→ Read the post​
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// four

5 heuristics to measure managerial impact

8 minutes | CodeKraft
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Are you an effective manager? Traditional performance reviews are infrequent, slow, and expensive. This self-assessment will measure your execution, strategic vision, people management, team growth, and organizational influence.

→ Read the post​

// five

When productivity becomes an addiction

7 minutes | BBC Worklife
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I know a thing or two about that sneaky tendency of turning every activity into a productive activity. Reading bedtime stories? Time to analyze the Hero’s Journey. A vacation? Re-charging my creativity for work. Heck, it took me forever to finally take a walk without a podcast playing. But over all that striving and optimizing, it’s important to remember: productivity isn’t an end goal in itself.

→ Read the article​

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LAST WEEK'S MOST READ

• ​Will you have “retirement regret?” (RadReads, 1,349 clicks)
• ​The key to becoming extraordinary (Ozan Varol, 596 clicks)

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And finally, instead of saying “How are you” try these instead.

With gratitude,

Khe

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