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September 13, 2020
How to Start a Book Club at Your Workplace
In 2019, the Sleeknote Marketing department started a book club. But not just any book club… A marketing book club. Our goal was to introduce ourselves to new marketing ideas, which we could use to acquire new customers better, improve customer loyalty, and reduce customer churn. In this article, I’ll share how we, as a […]
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July 26, 2020
How to Set Up GTD® in Notion
Since moving from Evernote to Notion in 2019, I’ve been looking to implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done® (GTD®) system. At first, I used one Notion page with multiple views, and despite a few hiccups, it worked reasonably well. I had a view for each of my GTD lists (inbox, next actions, projects), and most […]
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June 20, 2020
How to Write a Book Summary (Step-by-Step)
In 2015, I wrote a book summary for The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. Summarizing the book’s key ideas helped me remember what I read. Plus, readers enjoyed it, so I continued with other books I read. Since then, I’ve written 100+ book summaries for the best non-fiction books of all time. And, in […]
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May 10, 2020
How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide
There’s a lot of advice online on how to read more. And a lot of it is helpful—especially if you’re a beginner looking to read more often and more widely. But a lot of the advice also ignores busy professionals trying to balance life and work. That’s what I’m going to cover today. In this […]
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April 19, 2020
How to Build a Swipe File with Notion
If you want to learn how to build a swipe file that even your competitors would envy… You’re in the right place. In this blog post, I’ll explain my process for building swipe files with Notion, step-by-step. That way, by the time you finish reading, you’ll be able to begin building a direct response swipe […]
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March 9, 2020
The Five-Minute Journal: Is It Worth $22.95 in 2020?
If you’re like most people, you were brought up to believe success begets happiness. In other words, if you get that promotion, get accepted into that Ivy League college, lose 14 pounds … then you will be happy. Make sense, right? There’s only one problem… …it’s completely backward. Here’s why: In the 1990s, Harvard lecturer, […]
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February 26, 2020
How to Build a Resonance Calendar (+2 New Notion App Examples)
I follow a lot of brilliant people on Twitter. And most, if not all of them, tweet thoughts worth saving to reflect on and learn from later. I used to “Like” my favorites, hoping to return to them later. But without an organizational process in place, I rarely returned to them, and if I did, […]
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December 23, 2019
3 Lessons I Learned in 2019
In 2019, I changed the lens through which I view certain life experiences… And in this post, I want to share three of the biggest paradigm shifts I experienced as a result of making that change. Lesson 1: Subtract Wasted Effort to Achieve More with Less Effort [1] Old belief: “I’m a parent, so I don’t […]
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October 21, 2019
I Tried Audible for 30-Days. Here’s What Happened.
A few months ago, a friend introduced me to a subscription service he swore by: Audible. “You’ve got to try it,” my friend told me excitedly. “You of all people will love it.” A voracious reader with little time to read, I liked the idea of listening to books on the go. But for one […]
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July 21, 2019
How to Keep a Commonplace Book with Notion
A few years ago, I read an article by author Ryan Holiday about how and why to keep “a commonplace book.” A commonplace book, if you’re unfamiliar, is a notebook, digital or otherwise, that you fill with information like ideas from books, notes from courses, thought-provoking quotes, and more. Holiday’s commonplace book, comprising thousands of […]
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