Productivity
Forget Balance-Integrate! Creating Harmony In Life And Work
by Bruce Elkin
“Out of clutter, find Simplicity.
From discord, find Harmony.
In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Many who come to me for help feel their lives (or some parts of them) are difficult, cluttered, and discordant. Worse, they feel guilty because they can’t “balance” all the parts of their lives.
Don’t feel bad. [...]
Create Better Audio Recording – Pay Less For Transcription
by Allissa Owen-Williams
The quality of your audio material recording is the most important factor in terms of time and cost when using outsourcing agencies to transcribe your audio material into professional text based documents. Therefore it is vital to ensure good quality recording of your audio material in the first instance.
Time Equals Cost
Transcription outsourcing agencies [...]
More Time Searching For Clients Than Actually SEEING Clients?
by Bernadette Doyle
This week I got this message from Jane:
I’m a hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner; I spend more time trying to get clients than seeing clients. I know I waste time and resources but feel am I lost in this alien world! My clients now come from referral, leaflets and website but not nearly enough [...]
The Cycle of Completion: Making Way for Success
by Jack Canfield
Do you live in a state of mental and physical clutter? Do you have a bunch of unfinished business lurking around every corner?
Incomplete projects, unfinished business, and piles of cluttered messes can weigh you down and take away from the energy you have to move forward toward your goals.
When you don’t complete tasks, [...]
Choose to Make Your Day Dynamic
by Miami Phillips
There are two ways to start your day.
The first is to dive in; tackling whatever is in front of you. You might check your emails. This is an interesting beginning as it is always possible something fun and new came in since you last looked.
Email is fun! And of course - it is [...]
Make Your Meetings More Productive
by Kent Jacobson
Oh no, not another meeting request! We all dread the meeting invitation, not because of the content, but because a majority of meetings we have to attend are so poorly run. You know a good productive meeting vs. the unstructured, why am I here, one. Do not let the next meeting you hold [...]
Homework - I Don’t Have Time for It!
by Susan Kruger
As a classroom teacher, I used to hear excuses from a few students every morning about why they did not have their homework. Most of them had to do with extra-curricular commitments: “I couldn’t do my homework last night because I had a baseball game.” Or, “I had to go to my brother’s [...]
7 Ways to Say No Without Feeling Guilty
by Marcia Francois
It’s such a small word but so difficult to use sometimes. We seem to use this word so easily with our spouse and children but have a hard time saying it to other people. So the trick is to figure out how and when to say no.
I’m not saying that you should be [...]
10 Ways to Add Value to Your Company
by Olga T. Cordeiro MBA, CMA
1. Match your boss’s priorities to yours, so that you are in alignment with your company’s goals and vision.
2. Focus on the skills, projects, and assignments which will be used in your performance evaluation.
3. Exude trustworthiness. Under-promise and [...]
To Do List Draining You? How to Brighten Up the Tasks You Dread
by Bonnie McFarland
Vampire Tasks
Everyone has at least one of them. Something you hate to do. Something you dread. You procrastinate about it or do your best to avoid it. When you have to do it you get crabby about it.
What is it for you? Your staff meeting? Traveling for business? Working with a particular client [...]
