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For my white paper, I decided to focus on the effectiveness of the National Hockey League’s marketing. If you know anything about hockey, you know that the NHL doesn’t do the best job of marketing itself outside of the hockey bubble. The league knows how to engage fans once they already like hockey, but it…
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Having stress take over can be a huge motivation killer. I just had this happen to me the other day. When you have too much going on, it can really take over and make you not want to do anything. It is really a problem because once you lose motivation, all bets are off. It…
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According to Mindmapping.com, a mind map is a “diagram for representing tasks, words, concepts, or items linked to and arranged around a central concept or subject using a non-linear graphical layout that allows the user to build an intuitive framework around a central concept.” Personally, whenever I see a mind map, I always think of…
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When researching the project management websites like Monday, Trello, and ClickUp, they seemed somewhat useless. All of the things they have to offer can be done in a spreadsheet. I work a few jobs, and that’s the way I’ve done it all my life. For one of my jobs, everything is exclusively through email. All…
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As we’ve talked about and read so many times before, there are so many things going on that are meant to grab our attention. This is a big topic mentioned in Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention, where it says, “The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid…
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A social media detox is a great way to get someone unaddicted to something that is, in hindsight, very addictive. Apps like Instagram, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), and others have algorithms designed specifically to keep you on the app and to keep scrolling. As Johann Hari puts it in “Stolen Focus: Why You…
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Time management is a ridiculously important skill. If you do anything in life, you need to manage your time. This is especially true in college. Students are taught how to balance all the activities they are doing on top of their school work and social time. I know for me, it feels like I have…
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Writing this was harder than it should have been, and all of it had to do with the issue at hand: attention spans. In recent years, my attention span, as well as others around me, has really gotten worse. With the changing social media landscape, it is hard to avoid distractions. While writing this, I…
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