Desk yoga is a set of short stretches and mobility exercises you can do at or near your desk to loosen the neck, shoulders, hands, back, hips, and legs between longer blocks of work. It is not a substitute for a full workout, but it is a practical way to break up sitting without changing clothes, rolling out a mat, or disappearing from work for an hour.

The health case is simple: long sitting time is associated with higher health risks, while the World Health Organization and the American Heart Association recommend regular movement across the week. The Mayo Clinic also notes that even light activity can help offset the effects of sitting, so these desk yoga techniques are built for quick, repeatable movement breaks.

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Sometimes we all need a helping hand, whether we are choosing a meal at a restaurant, finding a steadier routine, or figuring out how to achieve our career ambitions. When it comes to life itself, most of us are never completely sure if we are on the right track.

That uncertainty is why many people work with a life coach: someone who helps them clarify goals, identify challenges, and turn a vague ambition into a practical plan. For the coach, the work depends on repeatable conversations, careful notes, and reliable follow-through. A strong life coaching checklist keeps that work focused without making the relationship feel mechanical.

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A good checklist is a practical way to ring in the New Year because the new year gives people a clean moment to look at what they want to change: health, money, routines, travel, relationships, career, and the life admin that usually gets pushed aside.

That moment matters, but a promise is not a process. Pew Research Center found that 30% of Americans made at least one New Year’s resolution in 2024, and the most common goals were health, money, relationships, hobbies, and work. Those are exactly the areas where a life checklist helps because it turns intention into a sequence you can actually follow.

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We’ve all been there. You wake up between 7 and 9, have a quick breakfast, or not at all, and start work. Perhaps you’re hoping to get that big project out of the way to get ahead, then blast away some of the more difficult topics while you’re on a roll.

The trouble is, if you set off working as soon as possible after waking up, the chances are that something will stop you. It could be that you’re not awake properly and so don’t work as quickly as you’d like, or that you burn out in the first few morning hours, drudging through your afternoon in a low-energy, unproductive state.

You might think I’m about to tell you to get up as the sun rises, sit down at your desk and work until you can’t work any more. That’s probably because you’ve heard advice like this pretty often… That’s why these unique daily rituals from creatives CEOs and other high-output people are useful: each one turns focus into a repeatable constraint.

In fact, Slate writer Mason Currey says that after reviewing 161 daily rituals, the key lesson you can extract is:

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I used to think office exercises were a bad trade. I did not have time to exercise, I could not do it at the office, and I was sure I would look like the fool stretching beside my desk.

I was wrong. Office exercises, desk exercises, and desk stretches do not have to be complicated, sweaty, or embarrassing. WHO reported in 2024 that nearly 1.8 billion adults did not meet recommended physical activity levels in 2022, while the CDC keeps the practical advice simple: move more, sit less, and build activity into the day where you can.

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This is a guest post written by Ashley Ferro, a freelance content writer & copywriter specializing in SEO content marketing.

Quick! You have an exam in a week. What’s your study plan?

Will you spend hours reading the material? Take notes? Use flashcards? Cram it all in the night before?

Most people in this situation wouldn’t think very far ahead when deliberating on how to study. They’d just wing it, most likely pull an all-nighter the night before, and hope for the best when the time comes for them to take the exam.

The problem with this is that it’s lazy. And lazy studying only gets you mediocre results (at best).

But this doesn’t mean spending long, grueling hours studying every day is the way to go. In fact, research shows that students that are consistently successful actually spend less time studying than their peers; they just do it more effectively.

So, what should you do then?

In this Process Street article, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about how to study effectively and efficiently.

We’ll be covering:

• What is the best way to study?
• Study techniques that actually work
• How to properly use a study guide and get the most out of it
• 3 crucial benefits of using a study guide
• Using a study guide template
• Using Process Street for improving study skills & getting organized
• Additional productivity and time-management resources

First off, if you’re just here to grab our Study Guide Template, here it is below:

Study Guide Template

Alright, let’s get started with the basics!

This is a guest post by Hazel Bennett, a freelance writer and blogger. She has a degree in communications and lives in Northeastern Ohio. Hazel loves writing about numerous topics and showcasing her expertise with words. Follow Hazel on Twitter.

Those with anxiety know what a struggle it can be to get through each workday. Stress, nervousness, and negative thoughts can wear a person down. As the effects of anxiety begin to take over, workers can lose the focus and motivation necessary to get the job done, leading to productivity and morale problems.

The combination of a high-stress work environment and mental health challenges can result in less-than-satisfactory work performances and unhappy employees. If you’re looking for solutions to keep your company working smoothly and your staff healthy and well, this Process Street post has you covered.

Read on for information about anxiety and how to overcome it with the help of productivity-enhancing technology:

• What causes workplace anxiety?
• Coping with chronic anxiety at work
• How to use tech as a de-stress
• Productivity hacks for workplace anxiety
• Mental health matters

Let’s take a look!
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Dave Nevogt is the CEO and co-founder of Hubstaff Have you ever been enjoying a productive streak when — out of nowhere — a meeting invite interrupts your day? He leads a 100% remote team that builds time tracking and productivity tools, including the Agile project management software, Hubstaff Tasks.

Have you ever been enjoying a productive streak when — out of nowhere — a meeting invite interrupts your day?

Or, has someone ever requested a meeting with you, and after some investigation, you realize that this could have been answered in an email?

Let’s face it, meetings are often met with disdain, and for good reason: many are unnecessary.

You can tell by how often meetings are studied, and how much time goes into rethinking them. It turns out that:

• 73% of people multitask while in meetings. Clearly, most meetings are not worth our full attention.
• Detailed agendas can decrease the amount of meeting time up to 80%. Yet only 37% percent of companies use them.

It’s time to make a change. And that change is to clear your schedule as much as possible. Fortunately, this Process Street blog post is here to guide you in making these changes.

• The benefits of holding productive meetings
• The 7 secrets to productive meetings
• Avoid overload and focus solely on productive meetings
• How can Process Street help you run productive meetings

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This is a guest post by Donald Fomby. Donald is a freelance content writer who works for ClassyEssay. He has spent more than seven years in the copywriting and blogging industries, writing articles, guides, and checklists for small eCommerce businesses. Donald uses his curiosity about online business to write about topics valuable to small business owners.

The product manager’s role is a juggling act.

To fulfill the needs of expectant customers, the product manager needs to work with the sales, marketing, and engineering teams — alongside the rest of the product team — to facilitate necessary changes and improve the product(s) in question.

But that juggling act has gotten even harder as of late.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, many product research and management processes that were done collaboratively and in-person have now pivoted online. Needless to say, this change had made it more difficult for product managers to succeed in their role and complete projects in the way they’re used to.

This transition may have caused workloads to build up, task lists to overflow, sprints to stagger, and thus, impacting the rest of the product team.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. The truth of the matter is that you can successfully manage any product research or development project remotely with optimal organization.

It’s the key to bettering collaboration with your remote team, and ensuring you and the rest of your product management team are keeping on the right track. If you strategically organize your work, you will also be able to instill and maintain successful collaboration with the people you’re working with, despite the many miles that keep you apart.

Seeing as 86% of executives say that a lack of collaboration is the most common reason for failure in their companies, it’s something that you need to get to grips with, particularly as a product manager.

By reading through this Process Street guest post, you’ll do exactly that. To boot, I’ll also provide some extra tools to help you thrive as a product manager! Just make your way through these sections:

• The 4 must-follow tips & tricks to excel as a product manager
• Product management tools to thrive in 2020 and beyond

Let’s get started.

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