Four for Friday - October 5, 2018

On Fridays I bring you my four favorite work-life integration tips, time management tricks and downright coolness that I came across this week. And we call it Four for Friday. Welcome!

Quote I'm Living This Week

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. - Thich Nhat Hanh

New Term I Learned: Ego Depletion

Quoting from the excellent article by House of Brazen, "How to Motivate the Sh*t Out of Yourself":Ego depletion = “a state we enter when our levels of willpower drop below a certain threshold.”  Read the article to find out more, and what to do about it.

The Lifestyle Hack I'm Using that's Really Working

I've (shockingly) been able to keep the three plants in my windowsill alive for a couple of years, but over the summer, they were drying out fast, I was working like crazy, and forgetting to water them, and the little leaves  were turning brown, breaking off and breaking my heart. Nooo. I read Apartment Therapy's blog post, 7 Things You Can Do With Just An Ice Cube, and one of those things is watering your plants. No more messy business of putting them out and pouring water over them and half of the sink! Just drop one or two ice cubes in the soil and let them melt. Game changer.

Speaking of Game Changer:

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