#ThirstyThursday Issue #239

🔥 Burnout scripts to protect you from a workplace avalanche.

🛠️ Drowning in spreadsheets and sticky notes? These office management tools help keep everything running smoothly.

🪩 Perfectionism and anxiety are feeding each other, and most people never spot the loop.

💬 A seven-step process for hard conversations.

Takeaways:

• Audit your time before trying to fix your schedule. Break your work into small blocks and identify where your hours actually go. In the guide, the author discovered nearly 40% of their week was spent on tasks that drained energy and could be done by someone else.
• Eliminate and automate before you delegate. Cut low-value meetings, dead-end prospects, and repetitive tasks first. Then use tools and systems to handle recurring work like follow-ups, research, scheduling, and content creation.
• Delegate outcomes, not chaos. Handing work to someone else only works when there are clear systems behind it. Create SOPs, Loom walkthroughs, ownership documents, and a company wiki so people can succeed without constantly needing you.

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Think about the last time a card came around the office and a dozen people had written something real on it. You probably still remember how that felt.

That feeling, being genuinely seen, is one of the kindest things you can hand someone, and right now it’s free to give.

GroupTogether is giving away your first group card (a $5.50 value), and it takes about two minutes.

Someone already coming to mind?

• The teammate who’s been grinding with no one noticing
• Someone on the team going through a rough stretch
• The person who always shows up for everyone else

It’s just as good for life outside the office:

• A friend you miss more than you’ve told them
• A birthday card the whole group chat signs
• The whole crew coming together for someone’s big news

Everyone signs one digital card from anywhere, the messages stack up, and the unwrapping moment actually lands. It’s why 5,000+ companies (including us at The Assist!) use it.

Send one today and feel how good it is to make someone’s day, then keep it in your back pocket for the next birthday or farewell.

Free through the end of June, good to use through December 31, 2026.

👉 Claim your free card and make someone’s day.

Takeaways:

• Match the tool to the task instead of forcing one AI to do everything. Use Perplexity for research, Claude for strategy and long-form writing, ChatGPT for brainstorming and workflows, and Gemini for tasks tied to Google’s ecosystem.
• Lean into each platform’s strengths. For example, use Perplexity to find a recent statistic with a source, Claude to turn that research into a compelling thought leadership article, and ChatGPT to generate 20 social media angles from it.
• Build an AI workflow, not an AI dependency. The top teams treat each tool like a specialist: one gathers the research, one turns it into a draft, one repurposes it into a dozen formats.

Catch the post on LinkedIn.

Takeaways:

• Schedule messages so communication happens at the right time. Instead of sending a message at 10 PM, use Viva Insights’ “Send Later” feature to have it delivered during business hours when it’s more likely to be seen and acted on.
• Customize read receipts based on how your team works. Teams admins can enable or disable read receipts by user or team, helping reduce notification noise while still maintaining visibility when needed.
• Automate repetitive workflows without writing code. Using Power Automate, you can build workflows for things like approval requests, follow-up reminders, recurring alerts, and status updates that run automatically in the background.

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Your skin freaks out at the worst times: a breakout before a big meeting, redness after travel, that one surface at the office you would rather not touch. Most acne products answer with harsh ingredients that leave skin tight and angry.

Hypochlorous acid is different because your immune system already makes it as a first line of defense. Curativa Bay built a routine around the same molecule for breakout-prone skin, travel exposure, and the germs that ride along with both.

The Wellness Bundle covers three spots where it matters:

• Skin Spray calms redness, irritation, and breakouts without the sting
• Nose Cleanser rinses one of your body’s first germ-defense entry points
• Disinfectant Cleaner kills 99.999% of bacteria and viruses, no chemical smell, no residue

Nature-based, science-backed, and easy to actually keep up with.

👉 Explore the Wellness Bundle.

Use code ASSIST for 20% off.

Takeaways:

• Use reading challenges to break out of autopilot. If you always read business books, try fiction. If you only read new releases, pick up a classic you’ve been putting off for years.
• Read for breadth. Mix in a translated book, an audiobook, a book adapted into a movie, or something unusually short or long to expose yourself to different perspectives and storytelling styles.
• Make reading feel like exploration again. Instead of asking, “What’s the next book on my list?” ask, “What’s a type of book I rarely choose?” Instead of just reading more, lean into books you never would have picked otherwise.

See the reading challenge on IG.

🥣 The dog food upgrade made with ingredients you’d actually recognize.

💵 Getting matched with a financial advisor through Money Pickle takes two minutes and zero awkward phone calls.

📧 A work email you’ll actually open: career intel with pop-culture and hot takes, Girlboss Daily runs Monday to Friday.

💆🏻 The LED face mask that does red light, blue light, and under-eye cooling in one.

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