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If you're looking to relocate or launch your career, you may want to pack your bags and head over to San Jose, Salt Lake City or Okla...

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If you're looking to relocate or launch your career, you may want to pack your bags and head over to San Jose, Salt Lake City or Oklahoma City.</div>
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San Jose, home to companies like Google and eBay, is ranked the No. 1 city with the most satisfied employees, according to Glassdoor. The jobs website, which compiles data about workplaces across the country, has released a list of top 50 cities with the <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/san-jose-ca-1-city-employee-satisfaction-glassdoors-employment-satisfaction-report-card-city-2014/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">most satisfied employees</a>.</div>
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The report reveals how the largest U.S. metros compare in terms of employee satisfaction, number of employees hiring and business outlook over the past 12 months, according to local employee feedback.</div>
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The study graded cities on a five-point scale, with a score of 1.0 indicating very dissatisfied and 5.0 indicating very satisfied.</div>
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We checked out the list, and narrowed it down to the top 10 cities where employees are most satisfied.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. San Jose, California</span></h2>
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San Jose topped the list with <b>4,200</b> employers who posted at least one job listing. Its overall satisfaction rating was 3.5, which shows that even the best cities have room for improvement. The highest-rated companies were <a href="http://mashable.com/category/glassdoor" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">Google</a>, Stanford University and <a href="http://mashable.com/category/ebay" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">eBay</a>. Three jobs in-demand here are software engineers, product managers and data scientists.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">2. San Francisco, California</span></h2>
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The Bay Area must be doing something right. San Francisco landed in second place with <b>7,632</b>employers hiring. Home to high-rated companies like <a href="http://mashable.com/category/twitter" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">Twitter</a>, Riverbed Technology and Genentech, San Fran earned an overall satisfaction rating of 3.4. If you’re looking to work as a software engineer, business analyst or recruiter, this is the city to live in.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Washington, D.C.</span></h2>
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Washington, D.C. came out in third place with a whopping <b>8,658</b> employers hiring and an overall satisfaction rating of 3.4. It jumped up two spots from last year’s report. Among the highest-rated companies were American University, George Mason University and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Java developers, business analysts and technical writers are the top three jobs in demand here.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. Norfolk, Virginia</span></h2>
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In fourth place, Norfolk had an overall satisfaction rating of 3.4 with <b>2,137</b> job listings. The city's highest rated companies were the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy. Sales associates, project managers and occupational therapists are the three jobs most in-demand here.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. Salt Lake City, Utah</span></h2>
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Customer service representatives, software engineers and administrative assistants are among the top jobs its <b>2,263</b> employers are looking to fill. With an overall rating of 3.4, employees were most satisfied working for these three companies: Fusion-io, University of Utah and Intermountain Healthcare.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6. San Diego, California</span></h2>
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With <b>3,723</b> employers hiring, San Diego earned a 3.3 satisfaction rating. U.S. Marine Corps, Qualcomm and UC San Diego lead the pack of employees who are most satisfied. Employers in this city are looking most for software engineers, sales associates and cooks.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">7. Seattle, Washington</span></h2>
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Seattle, with a 3.3 overall satisfaction rating rating, arrives in seventh place with <b>4,834</b> employers hiring. Among open positions, Seattle employers are in search of project managers, software engineers and customer service representatives. Employees named <a href="http://mashable.com/category/zillow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">Zillow</a>, University of Washington and <a href="http://mashable.com/category/starbucks" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">Starbucks</a> the most satisfying places to work.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">8. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma</span></h2>
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Among the <b>2,200</b> job listings in Oklahoma, employers are looking to fill sales associate, cook and occupational therapist positions. The city had a 3.3 overall satisfaction rating. Employees were the most satisfied working for the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Chesapeake Energy.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">9. San Antonio, Texas</span></h2>
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Nearly closing out this list is San Antonio, which saw <b>2,882</b> employers posting at least one job listing. Employers that had the highest ratings were the University of Texas at San Antonio, HEB and USAA. At a 3.3 rating, San Antonio is in need of customer service representatives, bartenders and restaurant managers.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">10. Austin, Texas</span></h2>
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Austin sits at the 10th spot with a 3.3 overall satisfaction rating and <b>3,872</b> employers looking to hire. Employees are the most satisfied working for HomeAway, the University of Texas at Austin and National Instruments. Among the open positions listed, there's a need for engineers, business analysts and staff accountants.</div>
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Balancing your career and personal life is no easy task. But if you're a data scientist, tour guide or social media manager, it may...

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Balancing your career and personal life is no easy task.</div>
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But if you're a data scientist, tour guide or social media manager, it may be easier to maintain a healthy work-life balance, according to Glassdoor.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">jobs site</a>, which compiles data about workplaces, released a list of the top highly rated jobs for work-life balance. The results are entirely based on employee feedback over the past year.</div>
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The report looked at work-life balance ratings for each job title shared on Glassdoor in the last year, and took business outlook ratings into consideration. Ratings were based on a five-point scale, with "1" representing "dissatisfied," "3" representing "OK" and "5" meaning "very satisfied."</div>
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If you're looking to achieve work-life balance, you may want to consider one of these professions.</div>
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1. Data scientist</h2>
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Receiving a <strong>4.4</strong> rating for work-life balance, data scientists grabbed the No. 1 spot. In the survey, about 74% of employees say the business will get better, while 5% believe it will get worse.</div>
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"Not only is everyone incredibly sharp and very good at their jobs, but also, almost without exception, everyone is a pleasure to work and associate with," <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Facebook-RVW4228118.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says a data scientist</a> atFacebook. "I'm given an incredible work-life balance."</div>
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2. SEO specialist</h2>
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Search engine optimization (SEO) specialists come in at a close second with a <strong>4.3</strong> work-life balance rating. About 75% of current employees believe the business will get better; 11% say it will get worse.</div>
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3. Tour guide</h2>
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Tour guides rank third on the list of jobs with the highest work-life balance.</div>
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The job that allows you to interact with people from around the world takes the third spot with a rating of <strong>4.3</strong>. Nearly 59% feel this job will get better and only 7% say it will get worse.</div>
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"You learn a lot about customer service, you get to take different workshops and classes, and managers work with you and have your best interest at heart," <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-The-Fox-Theatre-Atlanta-RVW3299659.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says a tour guide</a> who works at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. "You meet a lot of new people and it is a great environment to work in."</div>
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4. Lifeguard</h2>
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Lifeguarding comes in fourth place.</div>
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Coming in at fourth, lifeguarding jobs have a work-life balance rating of <strong>4.3</strong>. Approximately 33% the sector will get better and, perhaps unsurprisingly, 0% think it will get worse.</div>
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5. Social media manager</h2>
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Social media managers land in the fifth spot with a rating of <strong>4.3</strong>. A positive 76% think the field will improve and 10% believe it will get worse.</div>
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"I feel that the work I do is important, both to Abstrakt and our clients but also to my professional development as well," <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Abstrakt-Marketing-Group-RVW4035580.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says a social media manager</a> at Abstrakt, a marketing company in St. Louis, Missouri. "Although I am kept busy, I also have a lot of fun at work and feel like I have a good work-life balance."</div>
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6. Group fitness instructor</h2>
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Group fitness instructors for classes such as pilates, yoga and spinning, have a 4.2 work-life balance rating.</div>
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Working at a gym can have a number of perks, including a flexible schedule and a free membership to work out. It's no wonder being a fitness instructor lands in the sixth spot with a rating of <strong>4.2</strong>. About 43% believe the profession will improve, and 13% say it will get worse.</div>
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7. User experience designer</h2>
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Fitness instructors just barely beat out user experience designers, who have a work-life balance rating of <strong>4.2</strong>. As for business outlook, 60% saying it will get better, while 15% think it will get worse.</div>
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"The team is incredible, there are plenty of people to learn from, there are many perks and I always get the support I need to continually advance in my career," <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-LinkedIn-RVW4160415.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says a user experience designer</a> at <a href="http://mashable.com/category/linkedin/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;">LinkedIn</a>. "I also like maintaining a good work-life balance, and I can definitely do this at LinkedIn."</div>
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8. Corporate communications</h2>
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In eighth place is corporate communications with a <strong>4.1</strong> rating, and 56% think the profession will get better, while a low 6% think it will get worse.</div>
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9. Firefighter</h2>
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Firefighters take the ninth spot with a work-life balance rating of <strong>4.1</strong>. Approximately 47% think the field will improve, while 17% think it will get worse.</div>
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An FDNY firefighter in New York <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-FDNY-RVW4286353.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">shares</a> that he has a flexible work schedule, good salary and that his co-workers have become a second family.</div>
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10. Equity trader</h2>
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Closing out the top 10 are equity traders, who have a work-life balance rating of a solid<strong>4.0</strong>. About 38% think the field will improve, while 38% also say it will get worse.</div>
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"The compensation is outstanding and there really is great work-life balance. Everyone you work with is highly intelligent. Leadership encourages innovation," <a href="http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Tradebot-RVW3439892.htm" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">says an equity trader</a> at Tradebot, a broker-dealer in Kansas City, Missouri.</div>
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<strong>Curious to see which other jobs made the list? Check out the full report from Glassdoor below.</strong></div>
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Hearing more chatter — either at home or at work, or both — about work/life balance?</div>
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While the concept of a balance between your work and your play has been around for decades, more companies today, especially startups, are putting work/life balance at the forefront of their recruiting.</div>
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As new policies enter the workplace, employees are also engineering their own methods to balance their careers and social lives.</div>
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Here are six ways technology can help you find a more equitable balance between your work life and home life — and help you maximize productivity in both areas.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">1. Master your inbox</span></h2>
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With smartphones, we're always on. An email reminder at 8 p.m. can easily spiral into a two-hour long back-and-forth that shifts your attention away from family, friends and leisure.</div>
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While they may not draw you away for long periods of times, reply-alls can distract you during your off hours.</div>
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Wearables can help you maximize a number of activities that affect your work/life balance. The first is sleep.</div>
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Use your fitness tracker to monitor your sleep cycle and find the best time to wake up. The more you snooze in the morning, the less likely it is that you'll have enough time to eat breakfast, exercise or accomplish important tasks in the morning.</div>
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Additionally, fitness bands can send your alerts when you're idle. That could be when you're at your desk and haven't gotten up in hours, or when you're home on the couch not getting any work done (the lesser talked-about side of a bad work/life balance).</div>
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Finally, trackers will watch your activity levels and help you set goals. If fitness before, after or during work is important to you, a wearable device can offer personalized recommendations to help you reach specific goals, like walking two miles a day or reducing the amount of time you spend sitting.</div>
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It can also put those items on your calendar, so you don't forget them.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">3. Plan your dream vacation; you don't have to take it this year</span></h2>
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A girl can dream can't she?</div>
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While your dream vacation may always seem years away, try to bring it closer to fruition through <a href="http://www.touristeye.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">TouristEye</a>. This allows you to create a vacation bucket list as you discover destinations and plan local experiences.</div>
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With more than 250,000 locations and experiences, you can plan far-off trips or simple weekend getaways on TouristEye. You're also able to use the site to share your developing itinerary with friends and family and let them add on.</div>
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When you use TouristEye, embrace the concept of a bucket list; not all the trips you conceive have to be taken in the next calendar year.</div>
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From a work/life balance standpoint, just being able to visualize a vacation before you take it can release stress and give you something to look forward to.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">4. Cut down on excessive meetings that create more meetings and needless work</span></h2>
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If meetings are a major part of your workday, there's a good chance they could be keeping you at the office and cutting into your free time.</div>
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According to <a href="https://www.atlassian.com/time-wasting-at-work-infographic" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Atlassian</a>, workers spend 31 hours a month in unproductive meetings — time that could be better spent being productive or leaving work earlier.</div>
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To avoid excessive meetings that butt into your free time and hamper your productivity, ask your operations department about policies and technology that could put a cap on the number of meetings you can be invited to.</div>
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Further, ask if the company is interested in establishing restricted blocks around lunchtime, so no meetings can be scheduled during time when workers could be decompressing.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">5. Work from home...and stay organised</span></h2>
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Long commutes and longer hours are the bane of work/life balance, especially if you're stuck in a cramped cubicle. Both, more often than not, cause you to feel stressed, restless and shackled.</div>
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Remote work, on the other hand, is commonly associated with feelings of comfort and independence, especially for those coming from corporate backgrounds.</div>
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According to a <a href="http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/11/20/qje.qju032.full.pdf+html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recent study</a> performed at a large travel agency in China, remote workers demonstrated increased productivity and reported higher worker satisfaction and less exhaustion.</div>
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Respondents told the <em>Harvard Business Review</em> that they were more productive because their homes were quieter than their office.</div>
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Though telecommuting can be a great way to achieve a more equitable work/life balance, it helps to have technology on your side. Here are two tools for remote workers.</div>
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Trello helps remote workers organise their tasks. The program lets users drag and drop to sort by deadline and write comments to track progress. Managers can easily assign you tasks, which you can pass them onto team members when they're complete.</div>
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For more on-demand communication, turn to HipChat. The software lets you chat with your co-workers — both in one-on-one and group settings — and set notifications for different functions, like when your inbox hits zero or your project goes live.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">6. Cut down on your social media usage; it's distracting you at work and cannibalising your free time</span></h2>
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Whether you're at home or at work, there's a good chance you're dawdling on social media.</div>
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According to GlobalWebIndex, people <a href="http://www.globalwebindex.net/blog/daily-time-spent-on-social-networks-rises-to-1-72-hours" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spend 1.72 hours</a> per day on social networks.</div>
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If you can decrease the amount of time you spend on social media, there's a good chance you'll be more productive and enjoy your free time more.</div>
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<a href="https://www.rescuetime.com/features" rel="nofollow" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">RescueTime</a> is a software that monitors your social media usage and helps you spot areas of overactivity (maybe Saturday mornings are a problem?) and set goals (try only looking at Facebook on Tuesday and Thursday nights, and only for 15 minutes).</div>
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If you go over your limit, RescueTime will send you a notification alerting you of your digital transgression.</div>
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If you really want to crack down on all social media, RescueTime will block access to the worst offenders.</div>
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Social media is certainly not a bad thing, but if it's eating into your leisure time, you may want to rein in your activity.</div>
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Quick: What sounds more fun? Filling in spreadsheets with data for eight hours or coming up with new and exciting ideas?</div>
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I'll go ahead and assume you went with option two. The opportunity to innovate is something most of us want more of in our daily work lives. Yet often, we feel we can't be more creative at work because of factors beyond our control. Perhaps your company is risk-averse and likes to play it safe, perhaps your targets are intimidatingly aggressive, or perhaps the sheer size of your to-do list makes adding anything new feel impossible.</div>
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While a lot of these may be true, there are also some tips and tricks almost anyone can adopt to keep your innovation muscles strong and ready to go. And like any muscle group, the more you practice it, the stronger, better, and more unstoppable it becomes. Here are 10 things you can do on the job to make it easier to be more innovative every single day.</div>
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1. Start conducting stand-up meetings</h3>
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Your entire energy changes when you're standing. Unsurprisingly, the entire energy of a meeting does, too. Convert one of your meetings to a standing one and watch the momentum, enthusiasm, and action soar. They'll move faster and be more action-orientated and more likely to motivate your team. Need help convincing your boss? Throw<a href="http://lessmeeting.com/blog/hidden-benefit-stand-up-meeting/" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this article</a> on the benefits his or her way.</div>
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2. Surround yourself with inspiration</h3>
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Whenever you see something from the big wide world that captures your attention, put it on display. It can be any discovery: an awesome ad in a magazine, an unusually arranged menu, or even a well-written email that made you laugh. The more provocative, the better! If you have space on a wall near you, eke out a spot where you can display everything. Or, if you work in an open office where wall space is at a minimum, do it virtually on Pinterest.</div>
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3. Get a buddy</h3>
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Innovation rarely happens in a vacuum. Pick a colleague you feel comfortable with with and make yourselves accountable to each other. Encourage him or her to keep trying new things, whether it's trying a new place for lunch, pitching an idea in an unorthodox manner, sharing articles that inspire, or just doing some old-fashioned brainstorming. It's better — and easier — together.</div>
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4. Pick small projects</h3>
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We often think that ideas must always be big, transformative, and game-changing. But often, it's lots of small, novel things that add up to make a huge difference. The benefits to small-scale innovation are huge. Not only do they happen quickly and (most often) without a lot of fuss, they also garner the interest and attention of both your team and organization; thus paving the way for bigger, meatier innovation projects to follow. Try changing lots of small things, like how you sign off your emails, how you reward yourself for good work, or how you kick off meetings.</div>
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5. Flip your assumptions</h3>
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We all have things we do with our eyes shut. It's part of what makes us excel at our jobs, but also part of what blinds us to opportunities. Over the course of the day, identify all the tasks you do without thinking. Take a moment to talk about how you could do them differently. Sometimes it won't work (spell check might always be the best way to proofread your work). However, it will often lead you to find a new way of doing the same old thing.</div>
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6. Bring it to life</h3>
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Stop talking and start building! Put your thoughts into words, your words into pictures, and your pictures into prototypes. When people can see your idea, they're less likely to forget it and much more likely to take it seriously and become involved in its development and bullet-proofing. Even a bad drawing is better than no drawing.</div>
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7. Ban things</h3>
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Though it may sound counterintuitive, having constraints and parameters actually inspire innovation by forcing you to think dynamically and creatively. As an exercise, start banning things and exploring the implications. Ban words, ban resources, ban your primary target market, ban your default communication tools, and watch your creativity take off. Often, the ideas you settle on will likely be watered down versions of your initial suggestions, but the point of this exercise is to spark new thoughts on how to do the same old things.</div>
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8. Get out of the office</h3>
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Make a habit of stepping outside even if it's just to walk around the block. As you stroll, make a point to notice things. If you need some discipline on your inspiration hunt, make a game of it and deliberately hunt for things that begin with the letter A on the first day, B the second, and so on. Your mind will start connecting dots between what you see and the problems you left back at the office. That's the beauty of our subconscious.</div>
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9. Fuel up on creativity</h3>
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For too many of us, checking our phone is the first thing we do each day. Feed your mind with creativity instead of diving into the email deluge (that can wait). Pick your favorite song, <a href="https://www.themuse.com/advice/51-smart-podcasts-that-will-make-your-commute-way-better" style="color: #00aeef; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">podcast</a>, or blog to kick-start the morning. Whatever it is, make sure it fuels your imagination. You'll be amazed how much it will inspire your attitude and creativity throughout the day.</div>
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10. Ask yourself "What would my hero do?"</h3>
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When you're stumped with a problem you can't make any headway on, call in the big guns. Keep a list near your desk of some of your favorite creative forces. Then, when a problem strikes, consult your list and ask yourself what they might do to solve it. Considering how Willy Wonka would solve a packaging challenge, how Coco Chanel would tackle a communications issue, and how Salvador Dali would take on streamlining a supply chain can be very enlightening.</div>
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These tricks may seem trivial, but together they force you to see the world in a new way. And that's what innovation is all about — seeing opportunity where no one else can. The more you practice these, the more easily it will become your default way of thinking — and the more innovation will become part of your daily work.</div>
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As a final thought, remember that committing to innovation is a brave thing to do. Your actions will likely inspire others on your team to join. There will be days when it feels like too much to take on, but drum up your inner warrior and keep going. And remember that persistence beats resistance.</div>

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3 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Brain’s Creativity

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I met Balder Onarheim earlier this summer during a trip to Copenhagen . We found some simpatico based on our mutual interests in helpin...

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<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">I met</span> Balder Onarheim earlier this summer during a trip to <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">Copenhagen</span>. We found some simpatico based on our mutual interests in helping organizations optimize creativity.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Balder, please explain your background and what the Copenhagen Institute of Neurocreativity is.</span></div>
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I’m actually trained as an officer in the Norwegian army, but later I took a master<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">degree</span> in industrial design (at <a href="https://aho.no/en" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">aho.no</a>) and then a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">PhD</span> on creativity. Most of my career I’ve worked with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">medical equipment</span> design and enhancing creativity–in organizations, projects and ultimately in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">individuals</span>. <a href="http://www.neurocreativity.dk/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">The Copenhagen Institute of Neurocreativity, or just CINC as we like to call it</a>, is an institute I founded together with a neurobiologist, <a href="http://www.neurocreativity.dk/#!about-us/cee5" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Morten Friis-Olivarius</a> who happens to have a PhD on creativity and is very interested in enhancing creativity in individuals. It is a privately owned cross-institutional institute devoted to rigorous <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD12" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">scientific study</span> of the neurobiology of creativity, and to disseminate this knowledge to individuals and organisations.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">So, how does it all work?</span><span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Why did you start CINC and what is its mission?</span></div>
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Whoa, that’s a long story! It all started with Morten Friis-Olivarius, the fore-mentioned neurobiologist, and myself catching an interest in how to do applied neurocreativity, based on his work on the neurobiology of creativity. We then designed a creativity training program for individuals, which we tested at different universities around the world for some years. This resulted in <a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00656/full" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">a study</a> published in<a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/human-neuroscience" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">Frontiers in Human Neuroscience</a>.</div>
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This generated a lot of positive feedback, both locally and internationally, and since we felt that the type of research and dissemination we wanted to do in relation to neurocreativity didn’t really fit in any of the existing institutions we were working for at the time, we decided to start our own place.</div>
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The institute works as an umbrella for for various researchers and consultants engaged with the neuroscience of creativity, and both for doing research projects together and for working with private clients. The funding for the institute currently comes from our consulting work.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">What are key ways that people can practice optimizing their creativity?</span></div>
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The most important thing we can do as individuals is to challenge our (physically) established thought patterns. Our brain has a very logical way of working, and that is very helpful most of the time, but we also get lazy in terms of challenging this local way of reasoning. We can fight this <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">laziness</span> in two different ways, either by working on actual creative problem solving or by simply training our ability to reach ‘random’ associations. I give these 3 specific examples in my<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-YScywp6AU" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: #d8bc31; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">TEDx talk</a>:<br />1- <span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Constant Practice!</span> For example, over the next 2 weeks when brushing your teeth, think of as many random words as possible associated with <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">the toothbrush</span>. How random were the words? At first it may feel challenging to do this, but over time you’ll get better at it.</div>
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2- <span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Sleep On It</span> Think of a problem before you go to sleep- but don’t try to solve it! Just fall asleep. Chances are you will dream–and when you awake write down all that you remember, no matter how far fetched the ideas seem. You may have dreamt of an idea that can assist in your problem solving.</div>
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3- <span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Random Prompts</span> Many people do not realize that Wikipedia has a “random article” tab on the far left side. Let’s say you look up “trees”, and when you click on the “random article” tab an article on “MV Dittisham Princess” pops up. See what sorts of associations you can make between trees and this passenger vessel!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Nice! Why is it important that companies, as well as individuals, begin to integrate creativity in a more robust way into their operations and culture?</span></div>
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It is widely accepted that most companies are dependent on continuous innovation to survive, and creativity lies at the core of being innovative. And while there are a lot of ways to enhance creativity in an organization with the purpose of increasing the chance for innovation, we find it most rational to start with the individuals in the organization. You can have creativity without innovation, but you can’t have innovation without creativity. And you can have a creative employee in an uncreative organization (at least for some time), but you most definitely can’t have a creative organization without creative employees!</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Really interesting distinction!</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">How is CINC’s value proposition distinctive from other companies we see focused on creativity?</span></div>
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Very simple–we offer creativity training based on actually <em>explaining</em> what creativity is, based on our own, and other researchers’, scientific (not pseudoscientific) studies of creativity! The explanatory model we use is based on a neuropsychological and neurobiological understanding of creativity, and to our knowledge there are no other companies in the world doing the same.</div>
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The academic <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">literature</span> acknowledges that a sound understanding of creativity is at the core of successful creativity training. We see a lot of other companies offering creativity courses and consultancy solely based on personal experience or basic assumptions such as ‘<span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">painting</span> expressive art will release your creativity’. Our goal is not to prove that painting is not an effective way to train creativity, but as scientists we have to base our work on what we know. There are a few other companies globally offering more scientifically based creativity training, but not based on neurocreativity.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700 !important;">Cool- do you have any closing thoughts?</span></div>
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I think one of the biggest misunderstandings about creativity in business is that it is something fuzzy and uncontrollable… that it is only about ‘getting the good idea’ at the beginning of a process. Creativity is a <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">crucial</span> component in any type of problem solving. It may be a secretary coming up with a new archiving system, or a production engineer optimising an injection mould to save 0.2 seconds per unit produced. Creativity is not something mystical reserved for ‘the creatives’ in front-end R&D departments.</div>

3 Easy Ways to Exercise Your Brain’s Creativity

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