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Work Well. Play More! Monthly Habit Tracker

• * The Power of Less by Leo Babauta
• * Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour Workweek
• * Unclutter Your Life in One Week
• www.stickk.com
• * Post-it Dry Erase Whiteboard Film
• How Helen Moses stuck to her goal with STICKK
• Whiteboard Tracker – Digital
• Whiteboard Tracker – Printable
• * Double-sided magnetic mobile whiteboard

• Remove the digital clutter from your phone. – A one-minute video of Marcey talking about removing that clutter.
• * Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
• * Amazon Assistant
• Turn off desktop notifications – Instructions and screenshots to turn off Gmail and Outlook notifications.
• Turning off notifications on phone – Instructional video on how to turn off badges and banners on your phone.

• Sanebox – uses artificial intelligence to filter your email and sort out the trash.
• Evernote – cloud storage with extraordinary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) where the search even works with my sloppy handwriting. The best program for snipping web pages and articles off the internet and downloading entire eBooks.
• Hyperorganizing email – Marcey’s 30-second video on hyperorganizing with folders.
• SMI Financial Coaching – Personal business finance coach. If you reach out, tell her you heard about her from me!
• Outlook Cheatsheet – instructions, screenshots, and videos to help you make the most of Outlook.

• Inbox When Ready – free Gmail Extension that blocks you from seeing your Inbox until you’re ready. Send emails all day, but don’t get distracted by incoming emails unless you choose Show Inbox. You can also set a limit to how many times per day you can Show Inbox and enable a countdown timer of 60 seconds before you see it.
• Inbox Pause – alternative to Inbox When Ready that allows you to pause your inbox from seeing any new messages until certain times of the day. This is part of the paid Boomerang program and what I use to keep me focused.
• Barbara Hemphill – Taming the Paper Tiger* author and guest expert! Barbara founded the Productive Environment Institute where I was certified as a Productive Environment Specialist.
• Four-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss* – One of the books that started the entire productivity field.
• Boomerang – Gmail and Outlook extension that allows you to schedule and snooze emails easily, pause your inbox, and create templates. I love their service and pay for it annually.
• RightInbox – alternative to Boomerang.
• Streak CRM* – customer relationship management system for Gmail. Create pipelines, client boxes, canned snippets, snooze emails, and create reports. Free and paid versions available.
• Outlook Video Quick Tips – handy sheet with short videos to make your Outlook more effective.

• Streak – customer relationship management system for Gmail. Create pipelines, client boxes, canned snippets, snooze emails, and create reports. Free and paid versions available.

• Zoom* – if you don’t know what Zoom is by now, you may be Amish. 
• Calm.com. – my number #1 app for meditation, used almost daily for years. Hundreds of guided meditations, sleep stories, and music.
• Get Shit Done Mug* –  I drink out of one of two mugs when I’m in GSD mode. This of course, is my favorite.

• University of Michigan study
• University of Minnesota – a study on costs of multitasking
• UC Irvine – a study on the Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress
• Focus Booster – My favorite Pomodoro Time Tracking app! I set a timer throughout the day to help me track time, keep me from procrastinating, and give me rewards. This can also be used as a timesheet with client reports using tags you come up with. 
• Freedom – Protect yourself from yourself by blocking social media and distractions at specific intervals. I use it to block email on weekends. You can block yourself from shopping or news channels during work hours. 
• ChromeNanny – limit yourself from going to specific sites at pre-determined times or limit the time you spend on sites.
• Facebook News Feed Eradicator – eradicate distractions by replacing your entire news feed with an inspiring quote.
• The Power of When Quiz – take the quiz and find out if you are a lion, bear, dolphin, or wolf. I bought the book and took so many notes I may as well have written it again!
• Morningness-Eveningness questionnaire by the Center for Environmental Therapeutics – find out if you are a definite morning or evening person and your ideal times for melatonin onset.
• RescueTime – Time tracking productivity tool to show you how much time you spend on all websites and applications. Assign levels for productivity and distraction and improve your effectiveness each week. 

• Eat That Frog*
• TaskRabbit – Craig’s List but without the scaries. Hire and pay directly through TaskRabbit to get those tasks done like putting up holiday decorations, wrapping gifts, hauling junk, or even professional skills like copywriting!
• Powered Path Program – RaderCo’s digital course and analog tool for reflecting, planning, and prioritizing. We use this ourselves daily!
• Asana – project management system. 
• Microsoft Teams – if you work for a company that uses Outlook, you most likely use Teams.
• Trello – project management system.
• Slack – a useful tool to get you out of the inbox, as long as you don’t have all your notifications buzzing you all day.
• ClickUp* – fully integrated project management system with LOADS of features. This is my personal PM system. I hired Geeky Girl for the set-up and it was worth every penny.

• Acuity Scheduling* – scheduling tool for multiple types of appointments and locations. Easily syncs with multiple calendars and takes payment via Stripe or Paypal. I recommend hiring an Acuity Expert to help you set it up and then never go back and forth over email to schedule an appointment again!
• Schedule Once – another scheduling tool.
• Calendly – free scheduling tool
• How to make your Outlook calendar available to people outside your organization – screenshots 

Video

• Tip for Productive Meetings  – Marcey’s 20-sec video on how to increase creativity and collaboration.

• Freedom.to* – Protect yourself from yourself by blocking social media and distractions at specific intervals. I use it to block email on the weekends. 
• Rescue Time* – Time tracking productivity tool to show you how much time you spend on all websites and applications. Assign levels for productivity and distraction and improve your effectiveness each week. 
• Inbox Pause – Alternative to Inbox When Ready that allows you to pause your inbox from emails coming in and only see them when you are in email-processing mode.
• Inbox When Ready – Free Gmail Extension that blocks you from seeing your Inbox until you’re ready. Send emails all day, but don’t get distracted by incoming emails unless you choose ‘Show Inbox’. 
• Facebook Feed Eradicator – eradicate distractions by replacing your entire news feed with an inspiring quote.
• Moment.to – digital wellness company with an app to help save yourself from yourself and build a healthier relationship with your phone.

• Fistula Foundation – the Rader family personal charity of choice. Rated 5 stars by Charity Navigator and featured in several books and documentaries as a worthwhile charity. We have an auto-draft to pay for one surgery a month. If you don’t know what obstetric fistula is, please visit the website and save a life!
• Memento & Muse – corporate gift curation who knows their boundaries and only donates to feed the hungry.
• Kiva.org  – RaderCo non-profit of choice. We loan money to women business owners in the Philippines. When they pay us back, we make another loan to someone else.
• Hell Yeah or No – by Derek Sivers

• American Express Profit Calculator –  find out how much you really need to make with this calculator.
• Amazon Subscribe & Save – set it and forget it and have it delivered to your door. It’s like Costco or Sam’s Club for non-perishable items.
• Fancy Hands – Fancy Hands is a task-based service where you purchase a bucket of tasks per month. Need internet research, travel plans, or appointments scheduled? Use Fancy Hands! It’s also a great company perk to share the bucket of tasks per month.
• Zoom* –  if you don’t know what this is, you slept through COVID.
• Loom – I use this recording software for all videos 5-minutes or less. It’s great for training videos and tutorials.
• Jing – screenshot and recording software.
• Screencast – video and screen recording software.
• Fiverr* – I’ve used Fiverr for professional (creating a book cover, press release, and researching podcasts) and personal outsourcing (making a cartoon drawing of my niece Lily as Rapunzel). 
• Travel Guard* – I use Travel Guard for all my international travel or important trips. They make it easy and affordable to save yourself from what you think won’t happen. Plane delayed and miss a day at the beach? They have you covered with a hotel and reimbursement for the day you missed.
• TaskRabbit – Craig’s List but without scaries. Hire and pay directly through TaskRabbit to get those tasks done like putting up holiday decorations, wrapping gifts, hauling junk, or even professional skills like copywriting!
• Virtual Latinos* – Virtual Latinos specialize in fully bilingual virtual assistants in time zones that work for the US. You can choose from direct hire membership plans or through their agency with no long-term contract. They have a thorough interview and onboarding process to help first-timers work with virtual assistants. My former assistant was a college instructor working on her master’s degree in Human Resources.
• Hire My Mom* – recruiting company to connect businesses with talented moms who want to work from home.
• iWorker* –  their social mission is to provide high-quality jobs to talented workers in the most economically impoverished countries. They generate opportunities for them to improve their lives, support their families, and grow their local economies. I had bookkeeping help from a CPA/MBA from Kenya and my marketing specialist is from Venezuela. 

• Dashlane* – if you get nothing else, get a password manager! Generate, store, and confidentially share your passwords. Keep track of your credit cards to easily add payments. Assign users to access your account in the event of injury or death.
• Beyond the Estate Plan: Important Details Your Family Needs When You Aren’t Here to Tell Them.*
• Your Digital Afterlife: by Evan Carroll*
• Importance of your Digital Footprint – Marcey’s 90-second video on what you may be forgetting about your digital footprint.
• 5-Min Journal* – Gratitude and reflection are backed by research to show improvement in happiness, well-being, and self-awareness. Click here to watch Marcey’s review.