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Jack Turner, MBA
Jack Turner, MBA

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·4 days ago

How Lauren Como Turned Her Passion for Personal Finance Blogging into a $318k Side Business

And why she intends to keep her day job — If you spend enough time online, it doesn’t take long until you read stories of people leveraging the scale of the internet to build highly profitable businesses. What’s interesting is that many of these people have successful day jobs. Rather than trying to “build an online empire and escape the…

Online Business

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How Lauren Como Turned Her Passion for Personal Finance Blogging into a $318k Side Business
How Lauren Como Turned Her Passion for Personal Finance Blogging into a $318k Side Business
Online Business

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ILLUMINATION

·May 21

From Chasing Happiness to Embracing Purpose

A Guide to Finding Meaning in Your Career — The average person spends 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime, roughly 3,500 days. Put another way — you spend a third of your life at work. These are the most productive years of your life. If you’re going to put that much of your life force into anything, you…

Careers

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From Chasing Happiness to Embracing Purpose
From Chasing Happiness to Embracing Purpose
Careers

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ILLUMINATION

·May 15

Open AI Founder Joins Industry Leaders Who Think Remote Work Is the Tech Industry’s Worst Mistake

The beginning of the end of remote work? — Sam Altman, the chief executive of San Franciso based Open AI, has joined the chorus of chief executives currently trying to reverse the trend of working from home. In a talk hosted by the fin-tech company Stripe, he was reported saying “I think definitely one of the tech industry’s worst…

Future Of Work

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Open AI Founder Joins Industry Leaders Who Think Remote Work Is the Tech Industry’s Worst Mistake
Open AI Founder Joins Industry Leaders Who Think Remote Work Is the Tech Industry’s Worst Mistake
Future Of Work

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 21

7 Reasons Why Paying Your Employees to Exercise on the Clock Makes Great Business Sense

Including exercise plans that you can build into your team culture in as little as 4 hours a week — The proliferation of desk-bound knowledge work, coupled with a long hours work culture is having a deadly effect on our health. According to the CDC, one in four adults is physically inactive, meaning they have not participated in any physical activity in the last month. Living a sedentary lifestyle like…

Careers

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7 Reasons Why Paying Your Employees to Exercise on the Clock Makes Great Business Sense
7 Reasons Why Paying Your Employees to Exercise on the Clock Makes Great Business Sense
Careers

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ILLUMINATION

·Apr 15

Why the Best Leaders Make Exercise Part of Their Job

How to make time for exercise when you’re under constant pressure at work — Many professionals at the top of their fields have a shared commonality among them — they all consider exercise integral to their sustained success. Even while running the country, Barack Obama made sure to exercise for forty-five minutes before assuming his duties. …

Personal Development

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Why the Best Leaders Make Exercise Part of Their Job
Why the Best Leaders Make Exercise Part of Their Job
Personal Development

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Better Humans

·Apr 12

Advice from a Recovering Workaholic: 7 Signs You Are Overworking

And how to find more balance. — I just returned from a weekend visiting some old friends, who commented on how I’ve become a much better friend over the years — I don’t flake as much, I’m more present, and I just show up more. …

Work

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Advice from a Recovering Workaholic: 7 Signs You Are Overworking
Advice from a Recovering Workaholic: 7 Signs You Are Overworking
Work

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Apr 9

5 Ways Trail Running Is Helping Me Be a Better Friend (And a Worse Husband)

During the covid-19 lockdown, I got fat. At the time I barely noticed that it was happening. Looking back, I think it was largely due to the insidious pressures of trying to maintain everyday life during a global pandemic. That and comfort eating a lot of häagen-dazs salted caramel ice…

Motivation

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5 Ways Trail Running Is Helping Me Be a Better Friend (And a Worse Husband)
5 Ways Trail Running Is Helping Me Be a Better Friend (And a Worse Husband)
Motivation

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Better Humans

·Mar 29

Working for a Workaholic — A Guide for New Managers

How I survived long hours and sustained pressure — and how you can too — So, your boss is a workaholic and expects you to emulate them? Whether that means working ridiculous hours, inhaling lunch at your desk, or regularly sacrificing your weekends; reporting to a person like this can be taxing on both your career and home life. …

Careers

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Working for a Workaholic — A Guide for New Managers
Working for a Workaholic — A Guide for New Managers
Careers

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ILLUMINATION

·Mar 17

9 of the Best Ways to Procrastinate When You Wake Up Early to Work — And How to Overcome Them

My blueprint for sabotaging my productive morning routine (which you shouldn't steal) — I am good at waking up early. The alarm goes off at 05:00 and I am up and out of bed. The problem is once I’m up, I don’t always find it easy to get straight down to work and be super productive. It’s easy to waste those early hours…

Productivity

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9 of the Best Ways to Procrastinate When You Wake Up Early to Work — And How to Overcome Them
9 of the Best Ways to Procrastinate When You Wake Up Early to Work — And How to Overcome Them
Productivity

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Career of you

·Mar 11

Bernie Sanders Thinks the US Workweek Should Be Shortened From Five Days To Four

But is he right? — Senator Bernie Sanders believes it's time for the US workweek to be shortened from five days to four — with no reduction in pay. On the 21st of February, he sent a tweet, after seeing the results of a four-day workweek pilot recently held in the United Kingdom:

Work

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Bernie Sanders Thinks the US Workweek Should Be Shortened From Five Days To Four
Bernie Sanders Thinks the US Workweek Should Be Shortened From Five Days To Four
Work

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Jack Turner, MBA

Jack Turner, MBA

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Career writer; helping knowledge workers build skills, pay bills, and prepare for the future of work. Inquiries: jackjosephjohnsonturner@gmail.com

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