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How to get your new year off to a great start

At the Business Startup Show back in November I picked up a Direct Line desk calendar. Turning to the first page this week, I saw that the business advice for January is ‘Have a clear number one goal’. The full tip reads:

Work out your top goal: you will then be able to identify the key actions you need to take to achieve it. What, above all else, is your number 1 goal for this year? Is it a sales goal, a profit goal or the retention or acquisition of certain clients? Read more

Help! How to be slightly happier and get a bit more done, by Oliver Burkeman

As the title makes clear, this book doesn’t offer the holy grail of happiness, productivity, time management or work-life balance. Help! is a tongue-in-cheek swoosh through the morass of self-help advice that assails us from the heaving shelves of the popular psychology sections of the bookshops.

 

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