By the way, if we’re missing out on a topic or theme we should be covering, please let us know in the comments.

Here’s the first one:

My solution? Use iSpeak It to convert the analysis text into an MP3 and listen to it during my run…

He wants to know what your geeky time-savers are, too, so hit up his blog and give your reply or leave a comment here and let us know. Or both! Especially if you can, you know, find a geeky way to do both quickly.

That means that you have a full day on Monday to get things done. Sure – carve out time to grill out, go to the lake, sing a song – but just imagine what you could do in four hours that morning with no one sending you emails. And none that you have to send.

Most people will probably leave the office tomorrow after lunch, too. If you stay until five, you’ll have five more hours to do (nearly) uninterrupted work. Combine that with Monday morning and you get an extra day. One entire day that your competition, your co-workers and your colleagues may ignore. What can you do to get ahead, be remarkable and mark off your list?

This is definitely in my plans. I have every intention of getting some relaxation in, but the extra few hours of organizing what has gotten a bit chaotic, of catching up on projects at a high level, of checking off just one or two extra tasks — all of that will ultimately reduce stress and anxiety and make my work life calmer, so it be as good for me as any R&R could ever be.

What about you? Are you regarding this long weekend as strictly an opportunity to relax, or will you be sneaking some work in? Lay it down for us in the comments.

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Working from home, or remotely at all, seems to be an on-again, off-again trend in business blogging. The disadvantages are often cited, such as the chance you’ll be “out of sight, out of mind” and possibly passed over for promotion or lumped in with layoffs even if you are contributing a great deal of value.

But the merits are many, from work-life balance benefits to cost savings to increased productivity.

On the surface, it seems like a risk worth weighing. The question for you is, are you one of the many who work remote work into your routine? How often do you work from home? What techniques do you use to minimize the risks of being overlooked? Share your tips in the comments.

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Clearly we here at Corporate Idealist have been on a work-life balance / productivity kick lately. We’ll be taking our own advice and working more balance back into our topic mix over the next week.

Meanwhile, have a puppy in a basket, and as we approach the weekend, let’s hear from you: what topics should we cover more? What do you want to read more about?

And have a happy weekend!

Thank goodness for Wordpress on the iPhone.

So help us out, would you? Use the comments to discuss anything that’s on your mind. How can we do better here (besides being more on top of our posting schedule, ahem)? How is your work going? What’s your weekend looking like? Anything at all.