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📢 Good morning. If your brain is a mix of ambition, exhaustion, and “what even is my job anymore?”—same.
💡 Why You Need It: When your brain is chaos and caffeine, this method re-centers you in minutes without a full-on life overhaul.
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Choosing HR software can be overwhelming—with over 1,000+ tools on the market, it’s easy to spend days and still feel unsure.
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✅ PeoplePuzzles To-Do List: Midweek Edition
🔲 Audit your calendar. (What can you cancel? Be ruthless.)
🔲 Identify a “later” task that actually needs to be a “never” task.
🔲 Do one small action for Future You. (Set out your gym clothes, pre-draft that email, take the chicken out of the freezer—whatever.)
📊 News You Should Know
📉 PwC layoffs: PwC announced it's cutting 1,500 U.S. jobs (2% of its workforce), citing low employee turnover and increased AI automation as driving factors.
🛑 Google tightens RTO policy: Google mandates at least a 3-day in-office workweek for remote employees near offices. CEO Sergey Brin controversially suggested a 60-hour workweek as ideal for innovation.
📖 DEI under scrutiny: IBM dissolves its entire DEI team amid increasing legal and political pressures, joining a broader trend of corporations quietly scaling back DEI programs.
🔥 LinkedIn CEO Prank: Startup CEO Alen Cohen temporarily claimed to be LinkedIn's CEO on his profile without verification, exposing major loopholes in professional credential vetting on the platform.
💭 What’s the biggest workplace red flag you’ve seen this week? Hit reply & tell me.
🔮 The Uncertainty Era: Navigating the Unknown (Without Losing Your Mind)
We’ve been told that before making a big move, we need clarity. That’s a lie.
What if clarity isn’t the prerequisite—it’s the result?
✨ The Uncertainty Era isn’t about getting rid of doubt. It’s about learning to move forward anyway.
📩 I write a deeper Uncertainty Era breakdown every week—want in?
🔹 Get It Free Here. (This is your sign to stop waiting for "the right time.")
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🛑 "You’re Overwhelmed Because You’re Doing Too Much (Not Because You’re Not Doing Enough)" Productivity culture sold us the idea that more = better. But if you’re exhausted, scattered, and jumping from task to task without real progress, your problem isn’t lack of effort—it’s lack of focus.
Here’s your midweek reset:
1️⃣ Pick ONE priority. (If everything’s urgent, nothing is.)
2️⃣ Block distractions. 20-minute deep work sprints > 3 hours of scattered work.
3️⃣ Stop chasing inbox zero. Emails are other people’s priorities, not yours.
TL;DR: You don’t need more time—you need more control over the time you have.
🔥 [Forward this to someone who needs this reminder.]
🔄 Ctrl+Z: Your Quick Fix for the Week
🧠 Overthinking everything? Set a decision deadline. ➡️ If you’re spiraling on a task, give yourself 5 minutes to decide. Then move on. No more mental loops.
📖 Word to Your Motherboard (Word of the Day)
📝 Word: Productivity Theater 🔍 Definition: The act of looking busy while achieving absolutely nothing. 📌 In a sentence: “Attending back-to-back meetings with no action items is peak productivity theater.”
🎯 Share This With…
😵 Someone who says they need a break but still answers emails at 10PM. 💨 That friend who starts new projects before finishing old ones. 😂 Anyone who has written "Catching up on emails" in their planner like it's a real task.