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3 Effective Tips for Simplifying Your Professional Life It often seems that our professional lives run away from us and end up being vastly out of control. In fact, it would be hard to argue that this wasn’t the norm experienced by the vast majority of professionals in the world today, including employees and employers alike, and spanning all industries. When you’re working hard — and particularly in the fast-paced and hyper-connected modern business environment that we all find ourselves operating in — tasks just add up, things seem to go wrong, and issues build up at a rapidly accelerated rate. Things become too chaotic — or, in other words — things become too complex. And, as the authors of the hit productivity book, The One Thing, point out, your success in business is influenced to a large degree by your ability to focus your energies on core goals, rather than having to put out fires everywhere, all the time. Bearing that in mind, here are some tips for simplifying your professional life.