Creating a road map for your workday the night before helps reduce distraction, multitasking and procrastination, writes Pavithra Mohan. Perfectionism is a time-waster, explains productivity specialist Chris Bailey, and often it's a symptom of not enough work or too much busy work on your plate.

Being bored at work may be a sign that you're ready to take your career to the next level and invite new challenges into your life, points out Laura Garnett. Know yourself and make strategic moves to put your career in line with who you truly are, Garnett explains.

Maintain a safe and secure LinkedIn account by limiting the information you share with LinkedIn, as well as other apps you may have synced with via API, such as Twitter or Word. Go to the Settings and Privacy menu and remove any synced apps that aren't used, turn on two-step verification, opt out of targeted ads, and avoid syncing your contacts with LinkedIn, suggests Mike Epstein.

Some Amazon employees in Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK walked out on Black Friday, citing poor working conditions. Amazon said that even with the walkouts, the European order-fulfillment network was fully operational.

Take control of a job interview by following up a question you don't feel you have a strong answer for with "let me share an experience," suggests Terry Gross. This allows you to play to your strengths and get to the ultimate goal of the interview, which is to share your story, the longtime radio host explains.

A large percentage of workers in stressful jobs have trouble sleeping at night, even as high as 57% of women involved in some type of workplace drama, according to a study conducted by the Sleep Judge. Get a better night's sleep by staying out of workplace drama and gossip, staying ahead of deadlines and getting better at the things that are stressing you, such as public speaking.

A doctor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, as well as a few other pediatricians, decided to swallow heads of Lego figurines in order to determine how long the pieces take to pass through the body. Their research determined that the average waiting time was 1.7 days and that usually parents don't have to be too worried if a child does eat their toy.