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Do you want to thrive in a remote working position? What steps can you take to ensure you remain productive? If you’re working remotely, you’ll need intentional practices to maintain productivity, well-being, and connection. Fried and Hansson offer guidance in three key areas: creating boundaries, optimizing your environment, and preventing isolation. Continue reading for three helpful remote working tips.
Are you considering transitioning your workforce to remote work? How can you set your organization up for remote success? In the book Remote, tech entrepreneurs Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson present a case for work without physical boundaries. They argue that transitioning to remote work can be highly beneficial, but it can’t be done haphazardly. Here’s how you can run a successful business with remote-only employees.
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What’s The Let Them Theory about? Do you have a need to control everything? There’s a simple, but powerful framework for reclaiming your time and mental energy: Stop trying to control other people. In Mel Robbins’s The Let Them Theory, she explains how accepting others as they are while taking responsibility for your own actions can transform your relationships, reduce stress, and help you build the life you want. Read more in our brief overview of The Let Them Theory.
Do you often feel like you’re wasting energy on things? What is the Let Them Theory? Mel Robbins’s Let Them Theory teaches us to detach from situations and behaviors that are outside our sphere of influence. It involves shifting your mindset to take control of what you do and how you spend your time and energy. If you want to put your energy in the right place, read more about Robbins’s theory below.
How do you react to a person’s comment that just isn’t worth the battle? What if there were a way you could win the battle without even fighting it? To escape the trap of trying to control what other people do and say, Mel Robbins contends you have to acknowledge that you can’t manage everyone else’s opinions, judgments, and feelings and redirect your energy and focus to what you can control. She explains that to do that, you can use two simple phrases: “Let Them” and “Let Me.” Discover how to use these phrases in everyday situations.
Do you have trouble accepting reality? How can you stop influencing what other people say or do? Underlying the Let Them Theory is the idea that you have to accept reality as it is, without judging it, without resisting it, and without wanting to change it into something that it’s not. Mel Robbins points out that your time and energy are precious resources that you need to invest wisely. Keep reading to learn how to invest yourself wisely by accepting the way things are.
Do you want to know how to take accountability in relationships? How can you adapt to ever-changing friendships over time? Although relationships involve multiple people, it’s ultimately up to you to create the relationships you want in your life. Mel Robbins uses the Let Them Theory to show a way you can both release control and set boundaries in romantic and platonic relationships. Get ready to build the relationships you deserve by using the simple phrases, “Let Them” and “Let Me.”
Do you often care about what other people think about you? How can you stop wasting time on other people’s opinions? Mel Robbins’s Let Them Theory works when it’s what other people think and say, rather than what they do, that stresses you out. You can’t change what people say, but you can change how you react to them. Continue reading to learn how to not care about what others think so you can finally feel free.
Do you want to be more emotionally mature? Do you worry about other people’s emotional reactions to you? In the same way managing other people’s negative opinions isn’t your responsibility, it’s also not your responsibility to manage other people’s emotional reactions, says Mel Robbins in her book The Let Them Theory. While they might act emotionally immature, there’s a chance you might also be the one who needs to manage your emotions better. Learn how to be emotionally mature so you can let go of how other people react to you.