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Achieve the Results You Want in Your Writing and Your Life

January 31, 2012

It is very difficult these days to streamline your life and achieve the results you want in your writing. Today’s information-way-overloaded world tends to lead to complaining and that’s a bad habit. Others try to avoid complainers. The problem is more complaining Tends to  feed the habit the more so that  it  takes control of [...]

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The Ability to Focus Leads to Success

March 22, 2011

Your ability to focus is one of the most important skills you’ll need for business if you want to succeed. What’s more I’m convinced you can achieve what you want in half the time by learning how to get focused and stay focused. I’m also convinced the reason so many people don’t succeed and end [...]

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Managing Your Time in a Home Office

July 5, 2010

The problem with the term time management is that it’s become a buzz word for a skill that is in demand by many and possessed by few. “But I do manage my time,” you say. Then you’re in the minority because most small business owners and professionals keep looking for a 3 day week-end to [...]

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Time Management Leads to Good Timing

July 3, 2010

You can only successfully take on another topic, another project, an unexpected talked about issue, when you’re in control of your work load. Managing your business time – your schedule, your goals, your marketing – gives you the comfort of sliding in some very newsworthy issue and using it to your advantage in your business. [...]

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Multitasking Described

June 24, 2010

Yesterday I defined multitasking. I ended the post writing about those times when you have too many open programs on your computer and your computer says ENOUGH!  I can’t open another program unless you close some that are open. My thinking still is that most of us  need to learn that particular  skill a  whole [...]

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Multitasking Explained

June 23, 2010

Information technology has impacted our lives more than most of us even realize. It has changed not only how we work but where we work and when. For instance, I am writing this post in my office. It is not quite 5 AM and no one else is awake in the house. My goal is [...]

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Time Boxing Benefits to Consider

June 22, 2010

I’ve written a lot about time boxing and time management these past few days but if you are doing business on the Internet these are skills that are worth learning and worth improving. One of the reasons so many people start a business on the Internet, become frustrated and quit is because of its vastness [...]

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Overcoming Perfectionism with Time Boxing

June 21, 2010

If you are a perfectionist or you know people who are perfectionists, it is difficult for them to complete a project because they are always tweaking it to make it better. As a writer, I admit to have some perfectionist traits simply because there is nothing that I wouldn’t consider editing, and more than one [...]

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3 More Time Boxing Tips for Productivity

June 20, 2010

If you understand that the time available to you is limited and you are a rational person, you are probably thinking about which tasks you want to prioritize. You start asking yourself what is important, what is urgent, what is passed due? When you use time boxing you can rank your outstanding tasks. You also [...]

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2 Ways Timeboxing Helps You Be More Productive

June 19, 2010

Timeboxing, and for some time boxing, is a very effective time management tool for many. If you are new to the concept, time boxing is setting aside a time period to work on a task or group of tasks. Instead of working on a task until it’s done, you only work on it for a [...]

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