Here are five ways anyone can work smarter from Belle Beth Cooper, content crafter at Buffer, the social media management tool that lets you schedule, automate, and analyze social-media updates. (She's also co-founder of Exist.)
Here's Beth:
One of the things I love about the culture at Buffer is the emphasis on working smarter, not harder. Our team is all about getting plenty of sleep, exercise, and recreation time, so our time spent working is as productive as it can be.
Working harder can be an easy habit to slip into, though. Sometimes it's hard to switch off at the end of the day or take time out on the weekend and stop thinking about work. With a startup of my own to run, I find this even harder to manage. Whenever I'm not working on Buffer I'm working on Exist, and it's easy to fall into a pattern of "always working" rather than working smart.