#ThirstyThursday Issue #168

🏡 Productivity hacks for working from home that actually work.

❤️ How to keep your relationship alive when work consumes most of your time.

⚖️ Striking a balance: A guide to work-life harmony for women leaders.

🌍 The surprising reasons Nordic companies are so successful.

Takeaways:

• Boomerang is a tool for email productivity that allows you to snooze emails, schedule outgoing messages at optimal times, get read receipts and even reminders if someone doesn’t reply to you.
• To install, you’ll visit the Boomerang site and install the extension to your Chrome browser, giving it access to your Gmail.
• When you go to draft a message, you’ll see Boomerang overlaid onto your existing Gmail to utilize its AI writing and productivity options.

See the tutorial on YouTube.

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Takeaways:

• Establish a meeting rhythm. This includes a 3-year strategic planning meeting, quarterly sprint planning meetings, monthly business reviews, and weekly scorecard meetings. This structure provides predictability and reduces the need for ad-hoc meetings.
• Implement strict meeting rules like requiring agendas, outcomes, experts and a scorecard to ensure effective meet.
• Prioritize strategic planning and opt for 3 year cycles with quarterly sprints and monthly reviews then provide regular checkpoints to ensure progress towards the 3-year goals.

See the YouTube video.

Takeaways:

• Regardless of your politics, the threat of deportation of family and friends is stressful and may leave you feeling lost when it comes to supporting loved ones—leaving many TikTok users to promote printable red cards explaining immigration rights.
• Knowledge is power and sharing information is a powerful way to support anyone in fear of deportation. If an individual is any one of these, they cannot be deported:
  • Green Card holder
  • DACA recipient with authorized work authorization
  • Naturalized citizen
  • Student on a valid F1 visa
  • Hold a valid work authorization via adjustment of status, VAWA, a U Visa, state of removal, or asylum
• Deportation is a process and requires a hearing, or multiple hearings, and a judge order which may take years to get through. Even if a judge orders you to be deported, there is an appeals process.

Watch the TikTok.

Missed follow-ups, deals slipping through the cracks, and endless toggling between tabs—sound familiar?

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Why Capsule Stands Out:

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• ✅ Streamlined Task Management: Capsule helps you prioritize and automate tasks so nothing falls through the cracks.
• 📊 Sales Pipeline That Makes Sense: See where every deal stands, forecast revenue, and focus on closing faster.
• 🤝 Effortless Collaboration: Keep your team aligned with shared views of deals, tasks, and client updates.
• 🔍 Insights You Can Act On: Capsule shows you which deals are close to closing and which customers need a nudge.

Capsule Solves the CRM Headaches You Know All Too Well:

• Never forget a follow-up again.
• Stop losing deals to disorganization.
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Takeaways:

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• Stripes, prints, black lace and sheer details are on trend.
• Invest in color palettes like baby blues, browns, and powder pink to add life to your wardrobe.

See all the trends on Instagram.

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