10 things that will improve your career.

From: The M Dash at M.M.LaFleur - Sunday Jan 07,2024 11:35 am

M.M.LaFleur, The M Dash.

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Sunday, January 7, 2024.

Letter from the Team: Happy New Year! It’s officially 2024, and over the past week, my inbox and social-media feeds have been flooded with resolutions, reflections, and “ins and outs” for the year ahead. Some of the posts I saw were deep, serious, and important; others were silly, which is important in its own way (I especially appreciated this approach).

As I toyed with new-year resolution ideas for my own life, I realized that I kept coming back to a specific area: work. I know—it’s not the sexiest topic. But the reality is that for many people, myself included, work takes up the majority of our waking hours. It’s worth being intentional about making those hours as fulfilling as possible. So today, I’ve decided to share 10 resolutions that I think everyone should try this working year. Some are things I’ve been doing for a while to positive results; others are habits I plan to adopt. The list ranges from a PSA about emailing to a Japanese concept of empathy, but all of these resolutions aim to make your day-to-day life easier and help you find more satisfaction in your long-term career. And absolutely none of them will tell you to “eat healthier”—I promise.

Want a Better Career? Adopt These 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Work. By Madeleine Kim. Read the Story.

1. Reframe your relationship with your hobbies. Over the holidays, on a whim, I tried out a new craft I’d seen pop up on Instagram a couple of times: decorating taper candles with acrylic paint. I loved it instantly—and then immediately started thinking, Should I try to sell these on Etsy? How can I make this a side business? How quickly would I need to paint each candle to make this profitable? Ugh. As much as I try to avoid hustle-culture thinking, its claws are deeply embedded in my brain, and it takes some conscious effort to avoid these kinds of spirals. In 2024, commit to letting your hobbies be just that. Not everything you do has to produce income, and you don’t even have to learn a new skill. If it’s fun, do it.

2. Stop playing email ping-pong. In 2020, Anne Helen Petersen wrote an essay on how email became work, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. She writes:

Inbox Zero, and other email hygiene techniques, are means of highlighting our efficiency and productivity—but like so many productivity “hacks,” they’re also often ways of creating more work for others. The faster you respond to an email (and I am very guilty of this!) the less thorough you are in the response, which then means more emails. If you’re going through your Inbox at 9 pm on a Friday night, a task that could be very simply resolved with a phone call turns into an email response that spirals on forever. In 2024, let’s all resolve to reply with care. Keep Reading the Story.

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