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The final Brass Ring (of 2018)

The finish line, oh, it’s close!

Knocking them off one at a time

When getting the Pulitzer gets hard

Ooooh, let’s kick off Monday

Be like the bee

The upside of being really busy

Aiming higher

My best tips on working from home

Hello, good morning, let’s go

Let’s clear the decks

Who is the happiest person you know?

Here’s how to win your Pulitzer Prize

Are you sleeping on opportunities?

How to properly have a sick day (teach me?)

I’m asking for three more adjectives

The best icebreaker for awkward situations

An easy question that stumped me

How to emerge from hibernation

This is my favorite email I’ve ever sent you

A question for you

I finally bought some [insert necessary purchase here]

How to be a better collaborator

Cool and in control

The one thing you need to create

What’s your vacation perspective?

My best travel tip for you

Your phone is full. Your phone is full. Your phone is—

The to-do that never dies

What it’s like to run a marathon

Do you know how to vacation?

Throwing out the candy evidence

When you’ve got a gray deadline

Oh, the joys of mono-tasking!

A Monday conjuring

Are you dilly-dallying?

Your awake moments

Close your browser and restart

How you can ‘level up’ right now

Your yes and your no

Slowly, one at a time

Where were you 10 years ago?

What do you need to feel your best?

How realistic are you?

Some Monday fire

Oops, hi, I’m here

How keeping a tally can improve your productivity

What are you sacrificing right now?

Fire up your Monday

The reason why you hate-read something

How to shake up your routine

Time your task and tell me

Nudging your friends

Birthdays and knowing

Making some noise

What are you hoping to find?

Keepin’ it short

The wonders of compound procrastination

What happens when you go all in

This is your end-of-Friday prize

Hurry, hurry, hurry…for what?

Are you in the right room?

Can you feel that something’s coming?

Live from the Apollo Theater

Mmm…habits

How to be more positive

I broke all the Wikipedia rules

How do you start your day?

The beauty of counting backwards

Well, that was one of the scariest things I’ve done

What are you going "all in" on?

Why today is the best day

I made Labor Day plans for you!

A six-minute call six months in the making

Time for some clean-up

Can you write an editor’s letter?

What did you just learn?

I stole back my weird pockets of time

Got a question for you

Rain at all the right times

Your incredible disappearing habits

Wait, so, all I have to do is…write?

Find some space this weekend

How to follow up with someone

It’s all gonna work out

When the No volcano burps a Yes

Let's complete the cycle. You in?

Simplifying your Friday

How to avoid a stressful tomorrow

Your immediate reaction

A new way to tweak your to-do list

I hear these five things on a loop

My great big digital purge

Am I honoring this pact?

Your grand August plans

Be right back, I’m building a canoe

Um, that will be *how* much?!

What are your scary hills?

When there’s just too much stuff to consume

Two kinds of carrots

Finding the value in the hard days

The truth about networking

How to stop procrastinating and do the thing

My epic day of complaining

Silence the ringing alarms of obligation

Starting up that Monday engine

How are you spending summer?

This calls for a celebration

Wait, what would that look like?

When you fail to do the big things

I’m stealing (borrowing) from Nike

What makes you feel free? [Part three]

What makes you feel free? [Part two]

What makes you feel free? [Part one]

Freedom

How to deal with work relationships

Finding the time

This email wasn’t perfect, so I almost didn’t send it

When you don’t know for sure

Find your way to motivation island

How to fix a blobby Monday

Where were you one year ago?

I almost didn’t get the interview

When everyone ghosts you

The things you can’t stop thinking about

Your Monday morning clean-up plan

Doing more than you think you can

When you’re too ‘busy’ to think about the future

When you can’t decide between two A+ options

Let’s get to good enough

Let’s talk about the S word

Do you inhale?

Here’s how to actually enjoy today

Swapping winter for summer

Asking for what you want

Cookies, spinach, and your work

Giving sneaky thank yous

How to non-awkwardly make new friends

Calling all future first-timers

Finally, I’m getting really serious

Feel that? We are so so so close

Do you need new shoes?

This is the big “unlock” for me

Whoops, the building’s on fire

The way I’m going into the week

Is this your inner monologue?

You can do it. But do you want it?

A Starbucks encounter

How to undo your to-do list

Scratching your Monday itch

Your best things were amazing

Throwing in the towel

An essential how-are-you alternative

That tortoise vs hare life

Picking a spot already

You feeling this Friday?

Absolutely nothing is wrong

Yes, I want to be rich

What makes you feel powerful?

Process! Friendship! Making moves!

Squeeeezing Friday for all its worth

Look out, look out and see what happens

Giving credit where it’s due

Someone’s talking to you, ya hear?

BOOM! Let’s get Monday.

Taking out garbage weeks

How do you find a parking spot?

I don’t even know what to say anymore

Saying your goals out loud

On being competitive

Streeeetching yourself

This is my 300th newsletter

Feeling small, y'all?

Bouncing back from a garbage day

What kind of Monday will you have?

I gave myself another weird new rule

What I learned from Ira Glass

The money vs. time question

Giving it your all (again)

Oh, we’re ready for you, April

Let’s do one big Friday push

It felt like high school…

How I’m spending money

Vulnerability and risk and failure

Monday = time to move the furniture

I stole a mind game from “This Is Us"

9 tiny things I’m doing ASAP

Getting lit (not like that)

When you don’t have enough hours in the day…

Finding signs in street trash

Beware the energy-sucking monsters

How good do you have it?

When you’re avoiding making a decision

A hitch in your step

“I really should get around to…”

The one new thing I do on Fridays

Give all the things to the busy person

How to get where you need to be

You can fly when you’re not flying

Telling yourself a new Monday story

I have a radical new Friday feeling

On dealing with overwhelm

Are you climbing the right mountain?

The cure for task switching fatigue

My computer froze every hour on the hour

Deciding between two equal opportunities

Are you exhausted? Or empty? (No, Kara, I'm all good...)

How to get better at lit-er-all-y anything

Hoo boy, this is what I do when I'm worried

Are you free? You are.

Six words to get you through Friday

So, if you’ve already botched the day…

When you’re passionate

Visualizing your gold

The only number you need to know today

I would like to make more money

The quickest way to find a mentor

Chatting in airport bathrooms

Happy birthday, Grandpa!

Yes, I’ll take the scary stage, please

Ready for that ol’ Friday push?

Ha! Laughing in the face of plans

Itchy brains and ideas that don’t go away

Do you ever want to write a book?

You mean, I get to…choose?!

Making big Friday moves

I failed 165 times last year

So, I’m a killer…

Two questions to ask yourself at noon

Let’s start that Monday fire

Branching out from limb to limb

Your days are cotton, not stone

Oof, well, that was awkward

It’s time to slam some doors

Where is it all going?

I love to play mind games on Fridays

I ask myself this dumb question all the time

Present you vs. 2017 you

Life advice from Harold

You are so close

One stress-squashing question

Pick a word, any word

Looking back to look forward

Why I don't care about your resolutions—or mine