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Your #Career : 17 Ways you Should Invest your Time in your 20s for Long-Term Success…Your 20s are a Particularly Crucial Time in Life. Many Call these the “Formative” Years, and the Habits You Form Now can Carry you Through the Rest of your Life. So What’s the Best Way to Spend this Time?

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Don’t waste time, because that’s “the stuff life is made of.”  It was good advice when Benjamin Franklin said it, and it’s good advice now, no matter your age.
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But your 20s are a particularly crucial time in life. Many call these the “formative” years, and the habits you form now can carry you through the rest of your life.  So what’s the best way to spend this time?

We sifted through a number of Quora threads and TED talks to find out.

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Work on important life skills

There are a number of life skills people need to master, and your 20s is the time to start practicing. Without the pressure of parents or school to motivate you, you’ll need to exercise discipline and motivate yourself to learn the essentials.

These skills can range from patience and dealing with rejection to living within your means and good table manners.

Take preventative measures to stay healthy

Take preventative measures to stay healthy

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Francesco Wang refers to this as “life-extending” time.

“Investing time in caring for your health … will certainly yield you more time, literally — in days, months, if not years tacked on to your life,” he writes. “Yet we often take our health for granted until we experience a wake-up call.”

Instead, he suggests proactively investing your time in your health by eating well, exercising regularly, getting plenty of sleep, regularly seeing your doctors, and taking care of your emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

 

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Ask yourself daily questions

Benjamin Franklin began and ended each day with a question: “What good shall I do this day?” in the morning, and “What good have I done this day?” in the evening.

In fact, many great thinkers embraced the idea of constantly questioning things.

As Albert Einstein reportedly said, “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Of course, getting into the habit of self-reflection is easier said than done, as we often prefer to avoid asking ourselves the tough questions. As philosopher and psychologist John Dewey explained in his 1910 book, “How We Think,” reflective thinking involves overcoming our predisposition to accept things at face value and the willingness to endure mental unrest.

But enduring this discomfort is well worth the effort, as it can result in the confidence boost necessary to perform better in our work and daily lives.

Questions to ask yourself could include Steve Jobs’ “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” or Quora user Michael Hopkins‘ “How are you doing?” and Quora user Soham Banerjee’s “Why so serious?”

Fail

“Fail,” advises Arpit Sethi. “Out of our teens, this is the best thing that can contribute in the making of an adult. The more we fail, the more we learn.”

You’ll never have more energy or ability to think than when you’re in your 20s, says Shulamit Widawsky, and you’ll never be more vulnerable. This is the time to push your limits and recover from the failures that are inevitable when you take risks.

“Knowing what you can do and what you can recover from will make the whole rest of your life more successful,” she says.

Take up a mentally stimulating hobby

Take up a mentally stimulating hobby

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As the stresses of daily life become more burdensome in your 20s, it’s important not to forget about taking care of your mental health.

Mehta suggests starting a mentally stimulating hobby like playing chess, role-playing games, or solving puzzles to keep your mind sharp. Hobbies can also be a good creative outlet or an exercise in relaxation.

Spend time by yourself

Garv Suri recommends spending half an hour every day alone to get to know yourself better.

Tonya Turpin says that actively becoming aware of what’s going on inside your head is the only way to truly understand yourself.

Get involved in meaningful causes

“You will never have this much energy, health this great, or this much disposable time again in your life,” writes Heidi McDonald. “Make the most of it. This is your best chance to make a difference in the world.”

Volunteering can also do wonders for your professional life, too. Donating your time can teach you a new skill, help add something special to your résumé, and you allow you to meet new connections with similar interests as you.

 

Build in cushion time to get where you’re going

Build in cushion time to get where you're going

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Wang cites the “Good Samaritan” study from Princeton University in 1973, which found that whether a person was in a hurry had a huge effect on if they’d stop to help an injured person. Only 10% of those in a hurry stopped to help an injured person, 45% of those in somewhat of a hurry stopped, and 63% of those not rushed at all stopped.

“This means that being in a rush may be preventing you from being the kind of person you want to be — the kind to stop and help someone in need,” Wang says. “Building in lots of cushion time in your schedule and preventing ‘constant hurriedness syndrome’ is a great investment in yourself and in the quality of life of those around you.”

Start saving for the future

The beauty of saving for your retirement in your 20s lies in compound interest, Allison says.Even if you open a retirement account today and put in $5 a month, “the effects of compound interest on that extra decade or two can literally mean the difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars more that you will have for your retirement.”

Similarly, Tanmoy Roy suggests having fun but living frugally and allocating some money to pay off your debt on a monthly basis. You may not be saving for a home just yet, but down the road your student loans could prevent home ownership.

Be better informed

To find a meaningful cause, McDonald suggests keeping up with the latest current events by following the news.

“Chances are, you’ll find your passion, whether that’s a cause you’re interested in or a niche you believe you can fill,” she says.

Sanjay Kadel advises being wary about where you get your information. “Don’t believe in whatever is there on the internet,” he writes. “Do some research and then conclude whether it should be registered or eradicated.”

Read

Read

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“There is nothing that will help you more than reading,” says Deepak Mehta.

He suggests a wide variety of books, from young-adult fiction and law to Dickens and Tzu, to learn more about contrasting viewpoints. “Do not be afraid of coming across a convincing viewpoint that is totally antithetical to yours,” he says.

Reading is also a great way to exercise your mind, says Jereme Allison, because it activates almost all areas of it. “The mind is a muscle. If you don’t use it, you lose it,” he says.

Review your week

“One great habit is a weekly review to look back at the past week and lay out the one coming up,” says Curt Beavers.

He advises pondering:

1. What went well last week? (Celebrate and continue these.)

2. What didn’t go well? (Stop, overcome, or remove these from your plate.)

3. Based on the answers above, what changes do I need to make to make this week better?

Travel

It doesn’t matter how much you travel in your 20s, says Shrey Garg, but rather how you travel.

“Don’t be a tourist, but a traveler. This will help increase your vision and make you realize how big and small the world is at the same time,” he says.

The key, according to Allison, is experiencing new things: “Get to know that there is a bigger world out there. Learn about other cultures. Try new foods. You will be surprised at what you discover.”

Mario Hari suggests traveling with complete strangers. “Experience the motley mindset of people. And if you study their emotions carefully, you will get an intuition about what every soul is searching for,” he writes.

Do something social and outside your comfort zone

Do something social and outside your comfort zone

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Whether you join a book club or head to the pub for karaoke or trivia night, Mehta says it’s important to meet more people outside your friend circle and try to rid yourself of some of your social anxiety. It’s important in your 20s to become more comfortable around others.

“I know after college one’s social group often changes, so joining organizations helps one expand their circle of friends,” Hunter McCord writes.

Growing your circle of loved ones and spending time with them is not something you will regret, he says. “I never heard of anyone at the end of their life wishing they spent less time with loved ones.”

Keep learning

The fact that it has been a few years since you’ve set foot in a classroom doesn’t mean you should stop learning.

And don’t limit yourself to subjects that would have an obvious impact on your career. After dropping out of college, Steve Jobs still audited the occasional class, and one course he took on calligraphy was a huge influence on him and inspired “the wonderful typography” personal computers have today.

Start a side hustle

You’ll likely never have more free time than when you’re in your 20s, and using it to start a side hustle could give you the greatest return on investment.

“A side hustle is a business you run in your free time that allows you the flexibility to pursue what you’re most interested in. It’s a chance to delve into food, travel, fashion, or whatever you’re passionate about whilst keeping your day job,” writes Susie Moore, a writer and confidence coach.

She says the great thing about having a side job, apart from the extra income, is that it allows you to use talents that may remain dormant in your 9-to-5 job and make a meaningful impact by doing work that you love on your terms.

Whatever you do, mix it up.

“People aspire to live a memorable life, and there’s this tragic reality that most of us don’t,” Dustin Garis said last year during his TEDx talk.

For two years Garis traveled around the world, and on his journey he says he learned that “life is not the number of days you live; it’s the number of days you remember.”

The key to living a memorable life, he says, is pursuing one through breaking out of routine, incorporating change every day, and the “epic and everyday acts to save the day from being lost.”

 

Businessinsider.com | December 4, 2016  | 

#Leadership : The 9-to-5 Workweek Is Dead. Here’s What’s Next…Could Reimagining the 40-Hour Week Grind Make your Company More Productive?

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Your mind could have drifted thousands of miles away, but as long as your body showed up to work at Dallas-based tax firm Ryan, that was all that mattered. “We literally ranked people by hours,” says Delta Emerson, president of Ryan’s global shared services.

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“Even if someone worked 24 hours the day before, they still had to book at least eight hours Monday through Friday.” The clock was seen as an easy proxy for work ethic, and employees who logged marathon sessions at their desks “wore their hours like a badge, practically tattooed on their foreheads,” Emerson says. “But it was at a cost.”

Emerson didn’t want to just tweak the workweek. She wanted to bust it open. But when she pitched the idea of flexible hours, she was almost thrown out of the CEO’s office. A resignation letter from a rising star finally got her the green light. Now the firm measures results–not time. Some staffers work as little as 20 hours a week; some start at 7 a.m., others at 10 a.m.; some commute to the office only twice a week. Since the 2008 shift, revenue has grown 15 percent year over year, customer satisfaction is higher than ever before, and turnover has plummeted.

The Case for the Enlightened Schedule :  In the war for talent, flexibility is no longer just a perk.
29%
of college students think being able to work remotely with a flexible schedule is a right, not a privilege.
66 percent
of Millennials say having a boss who doesn’t support flexible schedules has factored into their decision to leave a job.
72%
of working parents say that people who work flex hours have fewer pay/promotional opportunities.

Is the headache of uprooting an orderly 40-hour, anchored-to-the-desk schedule worth it? All the indicators point to yes. “Millennials may have sent flexibility to the top of HR agendas, but now it’s increasingly the norm across all generations,” says Lisa Horn, a director at the Society for Human Resource Management. Technology has made working from anywhere possible, and the uptick in dual-earner families makes rigid hours less attractive to talent.

“The idea that employees are like machines–if they put eight hours in you’ll get x dollars out–is absurd,” says Ryan Carson, founder and CEO of Portland, Oregon-based startup Treehouse, an education technology company, which lets its employees set their own schedules. “Why not give people flexibility so they don’t have to choose?” You can reinvent your company’s workweek using this advice as a guide.

1. Debunk the 40-Hour Myth

The eight-hour workday was introduced by Henry Ford in the early 1900s as a way to attract autoworkers, many of whom were accustomed to 12-hour shifts. More recently, Basecamp’s Jason Fried thought it was time to modernize the workday to fit the needs of employees at his Chicago-based software company. “There’s nothing magical about 40 hours,” says Fried, whose staffers work just 32 hours a week from May through August. The co-founder (and Inc. columnist) says having fewer hours to complete a task sharpens employee focus.

 

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2. Adapt to Peak-Performance Styles

When Nate Reusser revamped the schedule at Roanoke, Indiana-based web developer Reusser Design to four 10-hour days, he realized he’d traded in one type of rigidity for another. “Some people loved it, but others were so wiped by Thursday that they couldn’t keep up,” he says. Now he lets employees pick whichever schedule best suits their working style. “The real goal is to remove interruptions so that people can be productive,” says Reusser.

3. Synchronize Schedules

When Ryan first began unshackling teams from the clock, “our biggest mistake was not training our managers,” says Emerson. Now managers have a blueprint to help with their team’s unorthodox schedule: Are there any days when the whole team comes into the office? Are there certain hours that are off limits for meetings? Emerson says, “You have to do the work to set those ground rules so people can really work together”–even when they’re in different places or putting in different hours.

FROM THE DECEMBER 2016/JANUARY 2017 ISSUE OF INC. MAGAZINE
By Kate Rockwood

Freelance writer

#Leadership : Why Flex-Hours Will Save Your Millennial Workforce…Use These Three Tools to Help your Business Retain its Millennial Workforce.

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“I had to leave,” she said. Dianne, a tech-savvy marketer in Albuquerque, just accepted a flex-hours position at a software company. The decision to quit her current job wasn’t even a question.

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“They offered me more money and more flexibility,” Diane said. “Now I don’t have to pretend like I’m busy at a cubicle when I’m finished with my projects. I get to focus more on my side hustle. I get to live my life.”

 Young people like Dianne are dropping out of the 9 to 5 in droves. They don’t want to slave away for a company half their lives just so they can “live” when they’re retired.

Millennials want to live now.

And with remote technology, they know it’s possible to live and work in the same breath. That’s why the Y-generation is abandoning conventional workplaces and opting for companies who offer flexible hours. Will that be your company?

Related: Not Offering Flex Time? You’re in Trouble.

Here are three tools to help you retain your millennial workforce:

1. Trello.

Originally designed for content management, Trello’s intuitive system of tiles, columns and comment boards allows you to assign work, give and receive feedback, assess project status and make instant revisions — all from your laptop.

Trello makes the transition to flex hours a dream. It gives you peace of mind knowing that your employees are informed and on task wherever they are. And it makes life simpler at the office too.

 

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2. Slack.

Slack is a direct line of instant communication between individuals and groups. You can set up as many channels as you like: for marketing, accounts, HR and any team you need to connect. And you can customize each line to be as private or public as you want.

Related: 5 Ways Telecommuting and Flex Time Help You Recruit the Best Workers

Slack’s system of alerts gives your employees privacy, but also allows you to connect with them in emergencies. Have employees check their Slack line every hour to make your flex-hour transition a breeze.

3. Skype.

The one thing keeping employers from making the flex-hour leap is control. You need the ability to make spot corrections, and to show employees exactly the way you want things done. But you don’t need to be in person anymore to do that — you’ve got Skype.

Skype’s screen-share feature enables you to give step-by-step directions and corrections, and the face-to-face connection gives you the satisfaction of an in-person meeting.

Related: Your Workers Want Work Flexibility But Companies Benefit Most

By integrating these three management platforms, you’ll give your millennial employees the freedom they need to commit to your company. You’ll increase your in-house efficiency. And it’ll cost you under $150 a year.

Since all three software systems have lite versions, you can begin experimenting with remote technology today. Hire a consultant to expedite your flex-hours transition.

 

Entrepreneur.com | November 21, 2016 | Dan Dowling