Happy Monday 🌞

If you joined recently, hi 👋 I'm Hailley. I've always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized.

This week, we are talking about one of my favorite systems and resources — creating an accomplishments list.

It’s (somehow already) the end of Q1, and now is an excellent time to start tracking your accomplishments for this year if this isn’t already a practice that you have.

I started this practice years ago because it’s so easy to forget what you worked on. The accomplishments list is a super simple way to remember what you worked on and then easily access that information if you need it in 1:1s at work or during performance reviews.

To make keeping an accomplishments list a light lift for myself, I:

• Set up a weekly reminder to add accomplishments to my notes. (Yes, weekly. My memory is short these days.)
• Add a few lines with links to relevant conversations or projects to a dated list.

That’s it!

When I need the information, I have a document I can work from. It’s not perfect but it doesn’t need to be, it just needs to be in a format I can work with when I need it.

Here’s a more detailed post about how I make performance reviews manageable with the accomplishments list.​

I hope you have a lovely week ahead. As always, feel free to reply if this sparks any thoughts or questions.

I hope you have a lovely week ahead. ✨

See you next week,

Hailley

P.S.: If you want more lists, I also keep a Positivity Folder where I keep screenshots of the compliments and kind words people have shared with me at work. I wrote about it on LinkedIn here but it’s a simple practice that can also help with performance reviews.

• Every piece of advice in this article — 21 Powerful Life Lessons From My Mentor (George Raveling) — is excellent, but I specifically loved “Become the go-to.” The idea is that he invented a role for himself, something that was overlooked or not addressed and he became the go-to for that role. It’s a strategy for anyone to become indispensable.
• I recently had the chance to pay a candidate to work with us at Buffer for a day as a part of the hiring process. It was new, different, and a blast. Read about it here: We Paid A Candidate To Spend A Day Working With Us, Here’s How It Went​
• Unlike many other companies, Buffer has never discouraged teammates from having side projects — we celebrate it. Which leads to a team with a ton of side projects. Here’s an updated list that I find quite inspiring — 35 Side Projects From The Buffer Team.

• ​101 Ways To Change The Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest (Listening 🎧)
• ​Creative Dysregulation: Why Your Creativity Is Chaotic & What to Do About It, by Kelly Wilde Miller

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