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Bridging the Great Divide Between Ideas and Action - By Laurie DuparPut an End To Time Robbers - By Laurie DuparProductivity for Life - By Laurie Dupar- Self Help Tips On How To Be More Productive - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2013 from Ewen ChiaDo you find that you are not as productive as you would have wanted to be? Maybe these self help tips will help you. Learn how you can manage your time and be more productive in your daily activities. To start off my self help tips, I would highly recommend you to create your own schedule. It ...
Views: 1507 - Stumping the "Jump" - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2007 from Randall "Randy" DeanStumping the “Jump” in Spreadsheet and Document Creation Programs: A Smarter Way to Select Needed Text and/or Data Perhaps one of the most annoying little “bugs” in most Microsoft software programs (and several other non-Microsoft document/spreadsheet programs) is when the cursor/user interface ...
Views: 1507 - Boost Your Productivity & Creativity Without Burning Out - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2013 from Lianda LudwigBusy, Busy... Are you a Type A Entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed? If someone asks you how you are, do you answer: Busy! It's the word many of us use to describe our lives. It's almost a boast disguised as a complaint. Overachievers brag about multi-tasking, and how much they've gotten ...
Views: 1506(1 vote) - ***Beating Procrastination For Good - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2007 from Paul ChekEvery one of us has 24 hours in our day – no more, no less. Yet some people manage to get an awful lot done in that time and others just can’t seem to get anything done. These latter people fritter away their day, finding other things to do while avoiding the goals and tasks they ...
Views: 1505 - Handy Tips to Select the Best Hardness Tester - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2011 from pitterkedar smithA hardness tester is among the crucial instruments you would require to know if your product is up to the mark in terms of hardness. If this very instrument does not perform as required, you could end up with an entire batch of products that does not adhere to the prescribed quality standards. ...
Views: 1505 - How to Easily Overcome Procrastination Permanently - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2010 from Jimmy RoosEveryone does it, including you. You have things to do, important things or unimportant things, and you delay doing them until the last minute. If Procrastination were an Olympic event you might have won a gold medal, you’re that good at it. You make jokes about being a world class ...
Views: 1505(1 vote) - Seven Tips to Accomplishing More Every Day of Your Life! - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2013 from Bill NieporteAfter complaining that I had “too little time” to do all the things that “needed to be done,” a mentor said: “You have the same amount of time per day that everyone else has…24 hours. You don’t need more time. What you need is the discipline to use the time you’ve got more wisely.” With ...
Views: 1503 - It Only Happens Twice A Year - by Submitted on Jan 13, 2010 from Lori Snyder"The distance is nothing; it's only the first step that is difficult." Marquise du Deffand Now that we are in a new year, it is so cool to recognize how we all get to have two New Year’s in one year. The first obviously is when we will all celebrate 2010, and the second is of course our ...
Views: 1502(3 votes) - Can Kayak Rules Keep You Successfully On Top? 3 success principles for work and play - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2009 from Dan OhlerMy brother, Emil, is a genius as well as being an exceptionally talented kayak paddler. Since one of my goals this summer was to learn how to pilot a kayak, it made sense to ask Emil for his help. Picture this: A sunny, warm day on Crimson Lake in West-central Alberta. There were six ...
Views: 1501(1 vote) - Creating Content Out of the Efforts of Others - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2010 from TJ PhilpottCreating content if you are working online is critical in terms of increasing your exposure and building credibility. Although this particular online marketing strategy can be labor intensive the results you get from publishing content are unparalleled. Quality content can circulate on the ...
Views: 1501(1 vote) - How Well Do You Deal with Interruptions? - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2012 from Joey FaucetteI watched a bit of the last Presidential debate. Up until the point where the debate morphed into one big interruption. Interruptions intrude into political debates, marriage conversations (and other intimate activities if you have children at home), and your work flow. How well do you ...
Views: 1501 - Fine Tune Your Life for the New Year or Any Time of Year - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2009 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorThere’s a simple way to re-focus your time and energy to get a better start and results in a new year—or any time of year—in any area of your life. Just ask yourself the two questions offered here. Two emails I received reminded me about the principle described below. I’d already had in mind ...
Views: 1498(3 votes) - Mac vs. Windows and some time and money saving tips! - by Submitted on May 21, 2011 from David HumesFor all you die hard Mac users out there, yes, I use Windows. I used to be a Mac snob: I used to hate Windows. I'm not exaggerating. I still prefer Macs primarily because the system is more stable and user friendly and Macs are more reliable: they seem to last a lot longer than Windows ...
Views: 1498 - Bring Prosperity Into Your Work - by Submitted on Jan 27, 2010 from Candace CzarnyFeng Shui Tips for Your Office Your office is where you might spend forty or more hours a week. While you might be comfortable in your space what about your co-workers and your clients? The energy of your office space will impact all of the people who work or visit it. Both your customers ...
Views: 1497(5 votes) - IVR Systems – Improve Brand and Business Orientation - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2019 from Shriv commediaToday, to engage customer interactively and sustain customer loyalty with strong brand presence and equity, it has become imperative to re-organize and improve existing communication systems to leverage better brand existence. In addition, marketing is also another contrivance for effective ...
Views: 1497(1 vote) - 3 Reasons Vacation Positively Clears Your Business Cache - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2013 from Joey FaucetteDr. Norman Vincent Peale talked about how a constantly bent bow will break. The bow needs pressure released to function well. Dr. Stephen Covey extolled the seventh habit of sharpening the saw. If you saw without a break to sharpen, you work harder with less production. In today’s ...
Views: 1495 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - by Submitted on May 11, 2013 from Adam Wallis"Between stimulus and response is a space, in that space is our freedom to choose, and what we choose in that space determines our success and happiness." - Anon I hope you find yourself well as you embark upon reading this blog post for the next 5 minutes. If you’re reading this then it’s ...
Views: 1495 - Knowledge and Information - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2010 from AGHORUNSE HENRYKnowledge and Information My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. Hosea 4:6(NIV) Nothing destroys quickly or causes decay and ...
Views: 1494 - Presto! Project is Done! - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2009 from Jan BolickYou know that big project (or presentation or proposal) that’s due in two weeks? The one you haven’t started yet? I know. I know. You’ve been meaning to do it. But it’s going to take HOURS and there are so many other things to do. You just haven’t had any big chunks of time to devote to ...
Views: 1494(3 votes) - The No in Yes - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2009 from Thekla RichterEvery time you say yes, you are also saying no. Every time you say no, you are also saying yes. Many people find it challenging to say no… to their loved ones, to their boss, to their own many desires. If a request is made of them or a project shows up, they feel obligated to accept it, ...
Views: 1494(3 votes) - Top 7 tips of how to not lose sight of, and realize your business vision - by Submitted on Mar 16, 2010 from Monique MacKinnonWhat is analysis paralysis? What is the negative impact of experiencing analysis paralysis? "Analysis paralysis is "an informal phrase applied to when the opportunity cost of decision analysis exceeds the benefits". It stems from self-sabotaging beliefs, including the following: - Once I ...
Views: 1494(1 vote) - Use a Storage Tool Box for Safety and Efficiency - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from John Arthur ThomasIn the 2011 “Key Work Health and Safety Statistics, Australia” report released by Safe Work Australia, the findings show that there were 134,835 workers’ claims in 2007-2008 for serious work-related injuries or illnesses. That’s 13.8 serious claims per 1000 employees. One in four serious ...
Views: 1494 - I am Not My Business Card - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2012 from Debbi DickinsonMy professional focus during my twenties and thirties was defining who I was as a professional woman. This entailed long days and weekends. It also required quite a bit of travel and for a few years 100% travel as a consultant. My career progressed along nicely. As I took on more and more ...
Views: 1493(1 vote) - Prioritize Your To-Dos: Time Management Tips for the Busy Business Owner - by Submitted on May 01, 2014 from Margie BeiswangerDo you ever feel overwhelmed by your workload? Do you find you can’t keep up with critical deadlines? I know you don’t want to hear this, but... You’re probably not managing your time well enough. To Make A List... Or Not A to-do list that works is more than a list of all the things ...
Views: 1493 - COMPETETION WITH SELF - by Submitted on Dec 26, 2009 from Deepak DixitThink of competition and the mind goes to – • Beating others • Out performing others • Scoring better than all others • Getting results faster and better than others The mere thought gives you the feeling of painful efforts and fighting with unknown enemies. Competition is also a ...
Views: 1491(3 votes) - Work Worth Doing Caren Merrick - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from Margie WarrellToday the word "work" has come to mean something to be avoided as much as possible for many people. But there is value in work. Not just for the money you can earn from it, but from the person you get to become. Hard work draws out talents and capacities that may otherwise have laid ...
Views: 1491 - How negative thinking affects us - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2011 from Dia ThabetHow negative thinking affects us? Is negative thinking a habit? What is the power of negativing thinking on your subconscious mind? Have you heard someone say “I feel tried when I get up in the morning. I need to drink a cup of coffee, so I wake up?” Or “I always get nose allergy in July ...
Views: 1490(1 vote) - Tips to Avoid the 3 Most Common Wedding Photography Hiring Pitfalls - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2017 from Jack HillWedding day! One of the most beautiful and important day for two people who love each other and what’s not to love about a wedding? If you’ve attended a wedding then you must have noticed photographers. There are different types of photographers. There are the ones who can make totally rock your ...
Views: 1490 - Being Lazy - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2016 from Ascendance ProjectI would say that everyone has their own ‘lazy times’ in life. Well you know those times where you're unproductive and just don't want to move. Well today is one of those days for me. I spent approximately 24 hours doing (by doing I mean in actions) nothing productive, neither did I do anything ...
Views: 1488 - A Sure-Fire Way to Gain Respect and Admiration at Work This End of Year - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2009 from Karin StewartThe fourth and last quarter of the year is often the most critical to obtain a good annual review or a promotion, because it comes right before review time, and people, including managers, tend to remember recent events better than older ones. However, Q4 is also the most stressful, fast-paced, ...
Views: 1487(2 votes) - 3 Real Triggers That Get Us All To Reach For The Phones - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2017 from Tyler JacobsonHaving you been talking to a friend lately, only to have the conversation constantly interrupted as one or both of you grab for your phone? While we know this isn’t polite behavior, many of us do it anyway. I looked into why this was and found there are three distinct triggers that go off ...
Views: 1486 - Done is Better Than Perfect! - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2012 from Lisa MontanaroSo, you are a perfectionist. And proud of it! And in some ways, that serves you really well. You maintain high standards, delivery quality, and people value your level of expertise. But sometimes, that perfectionism is causing you stress, procrastination, and depriving the world of receiving ...
Views: 1486 - How to Get More Work Done in a Day - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2009 from SelfGrowth.com ArticlesHow do you achieve employment security in a world where there is no employment security? I start with a question: do you consider yourself to be honest and at least reasonably intelligent? Okay. As an honest, intelligent person, do you, as a general rule, get about twice as much work done on the ...
Views: 1486(1 vote) - 5 Ways To Improve Self-Control - by Submitted on Feb 29, 2016 from Nelu Mbingu"One's greatest challenge is to control oneself" -Kazi Shams We've all experienced moments when our self-discipline was challenged. Whether it was not eating that extra cookie or finishing that work project before the deadline. We all know it can get difficult to deny ourselves immediate ...
Views: 1485 - Email Marketing – Trends To Grow in 2013!! - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2013 from Linda MentzerWhat would the domain of Email Marketing look like in 2013?, as this remains the time of the year when most marketers gather around to speak their views about email marketing. But whatever be the nature of discussion be, the point to be sure about is email marketing cannot be categorized as the ...
Views: 1485(1 vote) - Planning Your Way to Success! - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2009 from Charlene RashkowWhether you are a small company or a larger corporation, one of the primary keys to success lies in preparing and following a good marketing plan. Why? Because you can have the most awesome product or service to offer, but without a plan in place, you may flounder for direction and waste a lot ...
Views: 1485(2 votes) - Setting Up a Sales Funnel - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2016 from Tracey OsborneToday, I want to go into more detail about how to set one up that’s going to increase your sales and be easy to maintain. Let’s get started. 1. Opt In – We’ll start with someone subscribing to your list. This is one you’ve probably got covered already. If you have any kind of freebie ...
Views: 1485 - Learn More, Faster with a Learning Journal - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2007 from Kevin EikenberryWhen I worked in Corporate America, many people carried steno pads with them everywhere they went, writing their notes from meetings, decisions made, and more. I frequently saw these people reviewing these notes, looking for ideas, clues from conversations, agreements and more. One of the ...
Views: 1484 - Researching Happiness: 8 Really Helpful Productivity Blogs - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2017 from Arina KatrychevaResearching productivity seems to be a today’s trend. Experts and bloggers are talking and writing about boosting productivity at the workplace, defeating procrastination and increasingwork efficiency. Research-backed conclusions and personal thoughts, motivational stories and expert studies – ...
Views: 1483 - Your Environment: By Design or Accident? - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2011 from Germaine PorcheAccording to the late Walter Hailey, a behavioral scientist and sales and marketing consultant, “People have 12,367 thoughts per day. Of those, 90 percent are automatic, and 84 percent are negative.” More than 12,000 thoughts! That’s a lot of self-talking going on. How do you think that might ...
Views: 1482(1 vote) - 10 Great Productivity Web Sites - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2008 from David BohlLet’s face it - we can all use a little help when it comes to streamlining our lives. But improving productivity problems can be a bit of a paradox. We’re so busy that our lives tend to get clogged up with tasks left undone, half-digested projects and poorly thought out systems, which impairs ...
Views: 1481(1 vote) - Top 5 Ways to End Procrastination - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2015 from Danielle PierreI cannot tell you how many times I’ve put off until tomorrow what I should have and could have done today. It wasn’t until I learned how to overcome the tendency to procrastinate that my life began to change drastically for the better. Soon I began to have more energy, significantly greater ...
Views: 1481(3 votes) - Are you busy reinventing the wheel when you could be enjoying success? - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2009 from Melissa McCreeryYou have a lot on your plate and a lot of things that are important to you. You've decided that you want to make health or lifestyle changes and spend more of your valuable energy on yourself. You want to feel better and be more of the person you know you can be. The question is, "How do you ...
Views: 1480 - Half-Baked Ideas Are Better Than None - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2011 from Young KimI hate wasting food. Rather than allowing food to rot, I have to become an Iron Chef sometimes, and think of some way of salvaging the food. Sometimes I perform miracles, and sometimes my creations end up in the trash anyway. Regardless of how many times I've overcooked the fish, under baked ...
Views: 1480(3 votes) - The Now of who we are - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2010 from Geoffrey CanavanWe hear a lot of talk about ‘staying in the Now’. The key is our ability to focus fully on our present task. My friend Mike was good friends with a very famous musician. He went to see him in concert one evening and brought his boss. Mike’s boss was a huge fan and really wanted to meet this ...
Views: 1480(3 votes) - Think Twice to Improve Work Efficiency - by Submitted on Jan 31, 2011 from TJ PhilpottIncreasing your work efficiency is one of the single biggest contributing factors to building and operating a successful internet marketing business! After all when you increase efficiency you also increase productivity as well! When working online, in the vast majority of cases, most if not all ...
Views: 1480 - Best Time Management Software for Your Freelance Career - by Submitted on May 30, 2019 from Arina KatrychevaMany admit they’ve become more productive after having shifted from office work to freelancing. That seems logical first: working from home is less stress and interruptions, more flexibility and comfort, and tons of saved time. Sounds a bit Pollyannaish, doesn’t it? In reality, a freelancer ...
Views: 1478 - Revenue Generation or Cost Center: The 2013 B2B Marketing Budget Plan - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2013 from Linda MentzerIn the last years, the business world has changed for marketers. Like any profession marketers are asked to deliver more for less. Do we need marketing in first place to generate sales, or do we need sales revenues to justify additional marketing? However it is necessary to understand how well ...
Views: 1477 - Why Running Your Business Alone Never Works - by Submitted on Mar 26, 2012 from Melanie Benson StrickI was coaching a client one day who was feeling rather overwhelmed with trying to launch her new idea. I invited her to start a process of writing down all of the responsibilities, projects, tasks and other “shoulds” that she had swimming around in her mind. When she called in for her next ...
Views: 1477 - 10 Ways to send 10% Fewer E-mail Messages - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2010 from Marsha EganInformation Overload Awareness Day is fast approaching. Yes. We all struggle with the barrage of information that we receive and is available to us daily. And one of the ever growing sources of that information is e-mail. Consider the world productivity impact if everyone sent 10% fewer ...
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