#ThirstyThursday Issue #143

📱 Technology: Tech and apps helping with doomscrolling.

🤖 AI: The words that give away generative AI text.

🏢 Workplace: The new employee benefit: period leave.

🧠 Mind: How to get back into reading after a hiatus.

💸 Finances: A deep dive into Ryan Reynolds’s net worth for you to enjoy.

Takeaways:

• Spend 1:1 time with your employees where they feel safe enough to share what’s actually going on and what makes them tick.
• Most of us waste multiple hours on dumb things; Analyze your 1 hour meetings and see where you can turn them into 30 mins to generate more time on your schedule.
• Then take that extra time and invest it into meaningful conversations with your employees encourages them to feel safe enough to tell you the truth about their ambitions and irritants.

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Takeaways:

• Wasting time worrying about things of the past or things out of your control.
• Avoiding putting things in your calendar and not being clear on your priorities. As they say “there is no greater waste of time and energy than working hard on the wrong things.”
• Instead utilizing Parkinson’s Law and concentrating on one thing at a time are better uses of your time, yielding more efficient results.

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Takeaways:

• Recommended jobs for those wanting a career change should consider: county jobs, air traffic control, customer support from home, data anything and non-profit roles.
• Corporate recruiting is also highly sought because of the flexibility and potential for high pay.
• Becoming a certified dog trainer is highly fulfilling, profitable and allows for a side hustle or a small business.

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Takeaways:

• Take a 100 ml of almond milk, 2 large bananas, 3 scoops of protein powder, 1/2 cup of oats, 1 carrot, and 1/2 tsp cinnamon, and 1 tsp of baking powder.
• Grate your carrot and mash your bananas. Then remaining ingredients.
• Place into a parchment lined loaf tin and bake at 350 degrees for 30 mins. Enjoy your high protein cake!

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• Cardone Ventures is hiring for a Social Media Graphic Designer (Scottsdale, AZ).
• Storm3 is hiring for a Senior Product Manager (Boston, MA/Hybrid).
• Franklin Fitch is hiring for a Information Technology Security Specialist (Macon, GA/Remote).
• Ascension is hiring for a Director of Nursing, Surgical Services (Milwaukee, WI).