Archive for August, 2007...
Filed under home and family organization
By: Nat Bronson
People will usually build a kitchen pantry when their current storage facilities are no longer adequate for their needs. Sometimes a kitchen pantry may be built as part of a kitchen remodelling project. This could be as simple as a replacement of bench-tops to a complete kitchen make-over with new cupboards and appliances. Whatever the reason, more and more people are deciding to build a kitchen pantry themselves or bring in the experts to do it for them.
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Comments (0) Posted by Sylvie on Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Filed under Productivity Tips For Writers, productivity
By: Devin Hansen
Whether you write longhand or use a word processor, a time will come when the words won’t come. The empty page gapes before you, a vast expanse of space that seems impossible to fill. Your mind seems thick and heavy, and yet your thoughts are racing: I can’t do this any more. I used up all the words, every last one. And the most maddening thing about writers block is that once upon a time you could fill up the page and it was easy.
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Comments (1) Posted by Sylvie on Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Filed under organizing
By: Nathan O Shaw
It’s important to organize your life. When everything is more organized you can do and achieve much more. In fact, success depends to a large degree on how well you can organize things. And what would your life look like if it was ideally organized?
And through collecting your thoughts in an organized way you can facilitate everything important to you. Efficiency will help you not lose precious moments of time due to a lack of organization and preparation.
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Comments (0) Posted by Sylvie on Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Filed under time management
By: Nathan T Shaw
Prioritizing by level of importance is a major problem for many people trying to achieve success with time management.
Time management trainers still pull the wool over your eyes with the old-fashioned technique of prioritizing by importance. Another problem area is scheduling activities to time. And a third problem is using weekly to-do lists.
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Comments (0) Posted by Sylvie on Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Filed under Work-life Balance
By: Jan Hornford
It often seems that our days are engulfed in a myriad of tasks. Today we have many responsibilities and many roles - spouse, parent, sibling, child, friend, and career worker. Do you find you lose yourself in your relationships, in your nurturing roles, and in the busyness of life? Does it seem like your life has become a series of tasks to complete, rather than moments to enjoy? We often get so caught up in the DOING that we forget to BE.
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Filed under Work-life Balance
By: Barbara Hemphill
Several years ago I received a call from a woman who said she had been planning all year to take a two-week trip to Hawaii. She told me how she had madly spent the day trying to clean up her office before she left. Then she raced home, feeling frantic about how she was going to get everything done there before she left. Slowly she had that sinking feeling that although she could get away from it for two weeks, she would have to come back to it — sooner or later. Suddenly it occurred to her that she could use the money she was going to spend on her vacation on getting her act together — and not have to go back to chaos! So instead of going away for her vacation, she stayed home. She spent her vacation money, and one week of her vacation, organizing her home. The next week she went to a nearby resort to relax — and she truly did, knowing that she could return to a home about which she didn’t have to feel guilty.
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Filed under Work-life Balance
By: Beth Tabak
As the last day of school arrives I feel the same tendency I had as a child… to drop everything and scream “let’s go play!” After all, extreme self-care is so important. I also wonder if we tend to use the summer as an excuse to procrastinate. So here are a few tips to integrate personal and business growth with a whole lot of fun.
1- What do you want to achieve by Labor Day-
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Filed under Work-life Balance
By: Kerul Kassel
When you get an idea to do something, do you forge ahead with great gusto? That’s a great thing… if you’re ready for it. If you find that you’re struggling with more than just the logistics, strategy, or action plan, it’s quite possible that what you need to do is simply… wait! (”Impossible!”, you think?)
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By: Kerul Kassel
Stress sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s actually a useful and necessary part of life. Without it there would be little reason to invent, create, and live new and fascinating experiences. Stress often helps nudge us in a direction that is better for us. It gets us out of our comfort zones and into movement toward ideals or objectives and out of our ruts.
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Filed under Work-life Balance
By Mark Susnow
RECLAIM YOUR LIFE- LIVE IN BALANCE
“I don’t have time to get together with you. I have to finish this project.” Or the conversation might go like this. “I’ve been overwhelmed at work and I’m too tired.” Do these conversations or variations on the theme seem familiar? We have lost our ability to live in the moment and to be spontaneous. We are consumed by our “to do” lists and our responsibilities and obligations.
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