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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management is cause control
- Recently I've experienced a barrage of time wasters. Everything you can imagine, most of them unexpected, many of them self inflicted. It's amazing how fast you can go through minutes.When I discovered that time was an illusion of the physical world I decided not to keep a clock. Even the watch I wore was incorrect. Every clock in my house was purposely left incorrect. It gave me a sense of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Work smarter not harder
- To work smarter all you need is the consciousness of the present. This is possible only when you cast off your emotional bindings, this helps you relieve your prejudice. This is key to work smart. This combined with your "common-sense" completes the puzzle to work smart! I know it is hard to believe that these factors will help you work smart. Try for yourself, the next time you get angry over a s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Make time work for you
- Any habit of mind or body that interferes with taking decisive action contributes to your tendency to procrastinate. Think about your good habits and the environment that leads you to be most productive. Consider your preferred working hours, your optimum concentration periods, and the ways you have been successful in the past. You can begin to build on your good points first by recognizing them a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The ultimate virtual reality
- I used to think video game addictions were a joke and I'd laugh anytime anyone compared it to crack but is it really that funny? Let's make some comparisons.? Crack consumes time that could have been invested more wisely ? video games consume time that could have been invested more wisely.? Crack costs money ? video games cost money.? Crack can ruin lives ? video games can rui...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to define a successful time management strategy
- One of the most challenging aspect in life is time management. In the current fast changing environment, time management is very important in both your personal and official life. There are a lot of time management techniques to control your day to day activities and can be used as a guide to make educated and effective decisions as to how to make the best and the most effective use of your time....
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Ending procrastination: a new look at the old demon
- Do you believe that the best way to deal with procrastination is to "get tough" with yourself and "just do it?" Many people take this approach. What's behind it is the sense that procrastination is essentially a character flaw, a weakness, and that the only way to deal with it is to muscle past it through sheer will. But the truth is, there's a more effective way to approach it...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Career redesign tools for work-life balance
- Partnering with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School, Thirdpath Institute, a non-profit whose mission is "To assist individuals and families in finding new ways to redesign work to create time for family, community and other life priorities," held a 2-day conference in May, 2004 for lawyers, entitled "Having a Life: Creating Work-Life Balance in the Law.&...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you over promise and under deliver?
- A new client recently admitted to me sheepishly that she often didn't get to complete a client's work until the client called to see if it was ready. I admired her honesty if not her time management skills.I've had times in my past sales career when my work load got so out of control I worked in a similar fashion - on the priority of the moment. This method of work gives real meaning to the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management: set yourself up for success
- Any habit of mind or body that interferes with taking decisive action contributes to your tendency to procrastinate. Think about your good habits and the environment that leads you to be most productive. Consider your preferred working hours, your optimum concentration periods, and the ways you have been successful in the past. You can begin to build on your good points first by recognizing them a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Make procrastination wait
- Reflect on the rewards of kicking the procrastination habit. They are quite clear: -- Daily feeling of accomplishment. -- Long-term sense of achievement. -- Better performance. -- Satisfaction with a job efficiently done. -- Freedom from the tyranny of imposed tasks-more confidence about mastering future assignments. -- Better professional image. -- Higher self-esteem-belief that you can and will ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creative leadership; inspirational power ( part 2 )
- Time management is absolute crucial nowadays where business decisions have to be taken often at the speed of light, leaders have to find spare time to prioritize their actions.Time is the scarcest of all resources. Leadership should be about developing the ability to inspire people to reach high levels of performance and success. Being able to dream a vision and having the passion to commun...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How a simple four-letter list can make or break your business
- One of the biggest problems most people have when it comes to moving their business ahead is simply staying focused and taking the actions that will truly make a difference.It's not necessarily because we don't know what to do, it's often more a matter of getting distracted or letting little actions that seem important but don't bring in results consume too much time.How many times h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of limited time
- The most powerful resource that we have is time. Everything we do is time-dependent and changes forever with the passage of time. Even though we may think that we are repeating things in fact there is no such thing as a repeatable cycle in the pure sense of the word as time is only ever going forward and cannot be slowed, stopped or reversed.Time can not be changed itself but it does posses...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Procrastination: why we do it and how to change
- PROCRASTINATION: You've known about it since high school or college, when everybody boasted about it. Everyone put off papers for a basketball game or a night on the town. It was OK-you only go through college once, right? You left college, but did you leave procrastination? You are now accountable for procedures and personnel responsibilities more complicated and more consequential than any you s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Let someone else do it
- When you decide to become self-employed, you automatically become the "Chief, Cook, and Bottle Washer."In other words, you do it all.You do the bookkeeping, buy the paper clips, market your business, and you even provide your business's product or service.But you are better at some tasks than others and there are some tasks that you just hate to do.Fortunately...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Take back your time
- "You will never find time for anything. You must make it." -Charles BuxtonAccording to the organizers of Take Back Your Time Day, which was held on October 15, if Americans quit working on that date and didn't work for the rest of the year, we would be working the same number of hours as the average European. Even with high unemployment, America has experienced near-record mandatory overtim...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to make your job easier
- The techies could do a lot more to make our life at work easier and more pleasant.Take the telephone, for example. I don't know about you, but there are several things that bug me about talking on one of these confounded instruments.First of all, there are those long-winded conversations. Personally, I would like to see a device installed on all telephones whereby any business call t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Mercury retrograde and time management
- The concept of Mercury Retrograde is very well known even among non-Astrologers.It is an excellent example of the use of Astrology as a planning tool. By working with the ebb and flow of planetary energies your life can flow more smoothly and efficiently.WHAT IS MERCURY RETROGRADE?When Mercury turns retrograde, it is time to look backward. This period is an excellent time for ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Benefits of speed reading
- In this digital age, the importance of being able to absorb information quickly and efficiently is more pronounced than ever. For me, I get tonnes of information every single day. It used to be just the simple newspapers.Now I get an inbox full of mail, newsletters and every kind of news and information. Websites are publishing new articles and content every day. And it does not help that m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Writing a thank you letter for meeting
- I have a habit of sending a thank you letter for meeting after any meeting I attend. People often tell me it is not serious and out of contest but I believe a thank you letter for meeting is necessary for any decent business man.In this article I will describe the benefits of a good thank you letter for meeting and the components it should include.I am taking any meeting seriously. I...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management is key
- Having a home based business can be overwhelming. When you work at home, there is a lot to do for both your home based business, your home and you family. The key to making a home based business work is managing your time wisely. When you work at home, other tasks can interfere with what you want to accomplish, so it is important to keep in mind the goals of your home based business.Make li...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management wasters
- I am an ordinary man - A middle class high tech manager with a good salary, have decided to get rid of my time management wasters. I have found out that I have too much time management wasters. Take a look at the findings of a long a research I have executed in order to find the main time management in my life and the way to get rid of them. Use these tips :1. Turn your email off. Emails mu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Work at home moms: time management tips
- "How do you DO it?!" If I had a dime for every time I heard that, I would be able to quit my home business.Just kidding.Seriously, time management is a serious issue for work from home Moms. You want your home business to be a success, but you don't want the rest of your responsibilities to fall by the wayside...especially your children, who are the reason you chose to work from home...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You cant buy time
- Our daily lives are inundated with a crammed to-do list. We are often rushing throughout our day trying to keep up with ourselves. Although technology has improved and simplified our lives, we are as pressed for time as past generations. Often your day seems so full, and you are so pressed for time that it is impossible to get in all there is to do, and yet a little quiet thinking will show that t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Scheduling productive days - dont interrupt, im pouring concrete
- Almost everyone in business knows the balancing act between the weekly work schedule and business development time is almost as challenging as walking on a tight rope. I suggest breaking your work week into focus days to work in your business and buffer days to work on your business. For many people, there is a strong desire to skip preparation and just tackle everything on the to "do list" at onc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Shifting priorities are the norm
- Years ago when I started in this business, it seemed many clients had difficulty identifying their priorities. This isn't as true today as it was then. Unfortunately, now what I hear clients say is?'I can identify my priorities with no problem, but I can't get to them. At the end of the day I look up and realize I never got to the one thing I needed to do.' We are all busier today than ever before...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - First things last
- Years ago clients would tell me they could not identify their priorities. Now I hear them saying 'I know what my priorities are?I just can't get to them'.But effectively organizing yourself and managing your time takes an investment in time. Time to identify both long and short-term goals, time to set up workable systems and time to practice the processes these systems support. This investm...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Controlling family chaos - time management for the family
- Balancing a family's varying schedules can be near impossible. Soccer, hockey, dance, skating, Brownies, Scouts, skiing, swimming, school activities, homework, not to mention play and sleep time, fill our children's lives. Now add in the parental activities, including work, fitness, volunteering, and home maintenance  and well, 24 hours just doesn't seem to be enough.See...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Vilfredo paretos principle: the 80-20 rule: 80% of results are produced from 20% of efforts
- Vilfredo Pareto's Principle, or The "Pareto Principle," is more commonly known as the 80-20 rule. It suggests that a ratio of approximately 20% to 80% can be found as an effective measure for most things in life. Whether revenues generated per customer or value for hours worked, it usually can be found that 80% of all of our results in business and in life come from only 20% of our efforts!...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Time management: a non-renewable resource
- Benjamin Franklin wrote: "If you want to enjoy one of the greatest luxuries in life, the luxury of having enough time, time to rest, time to think things through, time to get things done and know you have done them to the best of your ability, remember, there is only one way. Take enough time to think and plan things in the order of their importance. Your life will take on a new zest, you will add...