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CF #13: My favourite meeting agenda template

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  • Wordtune will rewrite, shorten or lengthen your sentences. It's frighteningly good
  • Improve meeting quality and impress your peers by using a meeting agenda template
  • Some layout ideas for your next web design project
  • Overflow the subject in imagery to add visual interest
  • Whenever you have a problem or fear, ask yourself: “What would I do or say if I wasn’t scared?”. Then, do that thing.

A magical writing tool, my fave meeting agenda template, some beautiful web design layout ideas, and much more

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‍​3 useful tools

1) Landingpage.fyi

Are you creating a landing page from scratch? The steps, tools, and resources you need (in order) are on landingpage.fyi. You can finally rest assured that everything on your landing page is in place.

2) Wordtune

Wordtune is my favourite writing tool of all time. I recommend it any chance I get.

Check this out: It'll rewrite, shorten, expand, formalize or casualize your sentences. It's frighteningly good. Have fun.

3) Cleanup-pictures

Easily and quickly remove objects, people, text or defects from images for free. That's cleanup.pictures for you. No need to fire up Photoshop anymore.

3 effective tips & techniques

1) Improve meeting quality and impress your peers

I've been using the following meeting agenda template for about a year now. It has truly transformed my Zoom calls.

(Via Linda from Product Lessons)

2) Five layout ideas for your next web design project

Using the same imagery, typography, and color.

3) Overflow the subject to add visual interest to your imagery

Here are some fun shapes you can use as ideas for background masks.

3 ideas to think about

1) Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. —Austin Kleon

2) Whenever you have a problem or fear, ask yourself: “What would I do or say if I wasn’t scared?”. Then, do that thing. —Yours truly

3) Reminder that a big problem is just a bunch of small problems combined. Learn to separate them out.

Shower thoughts

1) We've reached an oddly secure place as a species when we're rooting for the number of tigers and lions in nature to increase

2) Cooking products are sold by saying they can help you cook "restaurant quality" meals, but restaurants get you to come in by saying they have "Homestyle" cooking

3) If a dog could use a computer, he'd likely have his owner as his desktop background

Via Reddit

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  • Poor diet (macro and micronutrients)
  • Nonexistent stress management

Get these right first.

They are the highest impact things you can do.

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Master the basics. Everything else falls into place.

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  • Get outside. Get some damn sun
  • Sleep well
  • Use your mind to build something – It'll energize you

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Enjoy your hot showers 🔥🚿

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