Maintaining Your Best Productivity Tool
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Maintaining Your Best Productivity Tool

This tool seems very underappreciated, but learning to work with it and maintain it will give you a sustainable productivity boost that will also help prevent burnout.

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Feed Your Head
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Feed Your Head

As a business owner in the legal or financial industries, you know that knowledge (and working with your brain) is one of your superpowers. As the Chief Brain Hacker of my company, I’m also the chief knowledge worker.

You know you need to support your brain… but what exactly is “brain food”?

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Fire Up Some Freedom of Time This 4th of July
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Fire Up Some Freedom of Time This 4th of July

It’s almost Independence Day (I know because my neighbors have been firing up the firecrackers for a couple weeks now) and it’s time to celebrate!

There are a lot of different ways to be independent.

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Why Modern American Business Culture Is Bad for Productivity (For Business Owners)
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Why Modern American Business Culture Is Bad for Productivity (For Business Owners)

Do you feel like you don’t have enough hours in the day as a business owner? Or do you feel like you have plenty of time to get everything done?

If you live and work in the US, the chances are you feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. It’s not necessarily true, but our culture can definitely make you think that there is always more work to be done and that you need to be busy.

But why is that culture so bad for productivity in the workplace?

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Working Smart Is All About the Brain
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Working Smart Is All About the Brain

Why do I call myself the Chief Brain Hacker instead of Founder/CEO (which are also accurate titles)? Many of my audience members get a little kick out of it. A little novelty, if you will (or even if you won’t) that human brains like. You might even get a little dopamine hit from hearing a new title that you weren’t expecting.

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Brains in Business
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Brains in Business

Want to be productive? Try this app! No, this software! Pick the exact right 115-step plan and you’ll be super-productive! Do these 13 things every night, wake up at oh-dark-thirty every morning, and you’ll get 197 things done each day!

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The Serum Inside Productivity Injection
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

The Serum Inside Productivity Injection

What’s the story, morning glory? I haven’t had a linear career by any means, and when I explain that I’m a productivity consultant, people always want to know how I got here. It’s been a long and winding road…

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Productivity an Issue? Be Good To Your Brain
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

Productivity an Issue? Be Good To Your Brain

June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, and it’s especially important for business owners to keep their brains healthy. After all, we entrepreneurs do a lot of “thinky” (or cognitively demanding) work!

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5 Ways Less Is More When Managing Your People
Jennifer Jank Jennifer Jank

5 Ways Less Is More When Managing Your People

There is absolutely a time and a place for a pizza party in the office (particularly on May 20 which is National Pizza Party Day!) Unless, of course, you’re the kind of monster that puts pineapple on pizza.
And while pizza is a fun way to appreciate your people, sorry, the occasional pizza party isn’t going to cut it. Even frequent pizza parties won’t, and neither will any other lunch treat.

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